Sunday, September 10, 2006

Lions Overpowered by Irish

Posted by slider at 9/10/2006


The Lion's inexperience was exposed during a game which could have been a lot closer if not for avoidable mistakes. Penalties and missed opportunities plagued the Lions all day. The loss is not the end of the world, however, any National Title hopes were laid to rest. The running game looked much better, but Anthony Morelli looked very much like a first year starter in just his second career start. The Lions will get to hone their skills next week against Younstown State before taking on #1 Ohio State.

Tony Hunt's 74 yards pushed him past Franco Harris and Jon Williams into 14th place on the all-time PSU rushing list. Both Dan Connor and Paul Posluszny finished with 12 tackles and solidified their position as two of the top linebackers in the country. Sean Lee also played a solid game for a defense that has looked a lot better than most thought it would be this year. Notre Dame's 41 points are not an accurate reflection of how well the defense played.

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I'm often asked, “What the heck is a NITTANY Lion? Why not just the Lions? What are you Penn State fans trying to pull?” Well, with a little help from the Official Penn State Football Site I offer the following:

Penn State's athletic symbol, chosen by the student body in 1906, is the mountain lion which once roamed central Pennsylvania. H.D. “Joe” Mason, a member of the Class of 1907, conducted a one-man campaign to choose a school mascot after seeing the Princeton tiger on a trip with the Penn State baseball team to that New Jersey campus. A student publication sponsored the campaign to select a mascot and Penn State is believed to be the first college to adopt the lion as a mascot.

Since Penn State is located in the Nittany Valley at the foot of Mount Nittany, the lion was designated as a Nittany Lion. In regional folklore, Nittany (or Nita-Nee) was a valorous Indian princess in whose honor the Great Spirit caused Mount Nittany to be formed. A later namesake, daughter of chief O-Ko-Cho, who lived near the mouth of Penn's Creek, fell in love with Malachi Boyer, a trader. The tearful maiden and her lost lover became legend and her name was given to the stately mountain.

And no, Penn State didn't always have those plain blue and white uniforms. The school's original colors were dark pink and black. However in 1890, as a result of the pink portions of school uniforms fading to white from exposure to the elements, the black was changed to blue and the rest is history.