Pretty funny. Right after 16:30. Can you say that on TV?
FC: Trey Bauer on Nitwits reveals his feelings about Miami
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Testaverde was a notorious bowl choker, Joe Pa used the film from the Miami Tennessee bowl game the year before.
What WE did against Herschel Walker in the Sugar Bowl was the more impressive defensive performance against a Heisman winner.
What WE did against Herschel Walker in the Sugar Bowl was the more impressive defensive performance against a Heisman winner.
I don’t know about that. I was at the Sugar Bowl and listened to the Georgia fans singing Herschel Herschel Walker all week. I told some of them the night before the game that they would finally see a real RB the next day and that the next cut you see Walker make would be the first since the only thing he did was run past people with a big hole or try to run over them. They just laughed. I always wonder what they thought when Curt Warner ran up the middle from about the 8 and did a 360 and waltzed into the end zone. I still think the defending of Testaverde and the Hurricanes in 1986 was more impressive, but that’s just my opinion.
Penn State's defensive prowess against Walker and Testaverde were stellar, indeed. However, what the 1981 defense did to Heisman winner Marcus Allen of USC is remarkable.
Allen was held to 85 yards on 30 carries ... no touchdowns. In fact, USC's only TD was a pick-6 early in the game. I remember Leo Wisniewski and Frank Case dominating the huge, star-studded USC OL all day long. And as usual Curt Warner showed to be the better RB on the field.
Allen was held to 85 yards on 30 carries ... no touchdowns. In fact, USC's only TD was a pick-6 early in the game. I remember Leo Wisniewski and Frank Case dominating the huge, star-studded USC OL all day long. And as usual Curt Warner showed to be the better RB on the field.
Love Bauer. You need a guy with that mentality on the team.
I knew Trey pretty well when at PSU, both of us lived in Hartranft Hall on the top two floors.
Trey came out to my fraternity quite a few times, he was a real good guy who was tough as nails but he never created any problems.
The PSU/ Miami game is the greatest game that I will ever watch as it was the last game of my senior year as I graduated in December 1986. Trey looks good, looks exactly the same.
That USC Warner vs. Allen game is the first PSU game I can ever remember watching on TV
I ran into Trey at Letterman's a couple of years ago. I asked him about something that was reported on BIG Ten Elite about Penn State's 1986 NC season. One of the reporters said Miami players ran through our stretch lines pregame. Well Trey didn't take kindly to this and picked up a football and drilled Michael Irvin in the back of the head.
I asked Trey if that story was true and he said "of course. He (Irvin) was a F-ing derlelict."
And as you indicated he was tough as nails. I loved his demeanor on the field.
This is wrong. Tennessee did nothing but blitz the heck out of Testaverde. Paterno, watched that film exactly one time (btw, it was the only film that was shared with Penn State on Testaverde). Joe immediately said after watching the film "that's not what we do" and devised a different approach. Our defense that game was to drop 7 or 8 most plays and hence confusing Vinnie and causing most of the interceptions.
One of my favorite games... We just shut him down while warner was clearly the man all day. Really enjoyed that game start to finish.
This talk of beating Heisman trophy winners makes me think how dumb I was. Tossed this a long time ago and wish I still had it.
Had a t-shirt that read “Heisman Graveyard” and had a Nittany Lion standing over 4 tombstones.
Walker, White and Testaverde are the three I recall.
Not sure who #4 was.
Anyone recall this t-shirt?
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Had a t-shirt that read “Heisman Graveyard” and had a Nittany Lion standing over 4 tombstones.
Walker, White and Testaverde are the three I recall.
Not sure who #4 was.
Anyone recall this t-shirt?
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Yeah, not sure where I came up with White. The three mentioned in the thread I recall.
Thanks, Soupy.
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I went to the game at BC in '82 ... They went up quick and the BC crowd was really into it, Flutie was throwing it all over the field. Had 520 yards that day. We won 52-17. It was fun watching the crowd deflate as the game progressed. I think they were all drunk in the parking lots by Q3 .....
That's the one, Ziggy. My mistake as there are only 3 headstones.
Did I at least get the names correct? I can only see Testaverde. Now, I am questioning myself as to whether the other two have names. It's been a while.
Thanks for the pic!
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I heard that......I think that you told me about it.
That 86 team was a bunch of hard nosed guys with just enough play makers Dozier, Manoa, Blair Thomas, Steve Smith........Roundtree and Hamilton at WR and an OL that could really run. Shafer threw for less than 1 TD per game, nobody rushed for over 1,000 yds, but we averaged about 240 yards rushing per game, and they won the national championship with that team over an all star team at the U.
Conlin was a star and maybe best LB ever at PSU; the rest real solid: Bauer, Tim Johnson, Isom, Cobbs, Kurkendahl......and a bunch of good tacklers on defense and good special teams won the year for us that year.
I b 196 believe you can add Gary Beban (UCLA 1967) to that list although they did beat us that year. We really contained him that game. They scored on a blocked punt and he did lead down for the go-ahead score but we really contained him otherwise.
well, if you want to go back in time, the 1964 squad shut down Heisman QB Roger Staubach of Navy ... but lost the game.
However, that team rallied to win its final 6 games, including 27-0 rout at Ohio State and 24-7 in the first game I attended, 24-7 win at Houston.
