Navy at Penn State

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, September 25, 1961, page 15

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  NAVY An opening setback doesn’t do the record any good, but Wayne Hardin, the Navy coach, has an idea that it didn’t exactly do his team any serious harm. For % players on the Mid dies 37-man squad, Saturdays 20–⁠10 loss to Penn State was their first full-scale test. And Hardin saw enough to be encouraged. Il think” he said, we’ve got the makings of a pretty good club. It’s just going to take a little time” Against a team that had been pegged among the Ma tion’s elite. the Middies were all even, 1910, until the final nine minutes when Don Jonas 25-yard field goal and Don Caum’s 19- yard touchdown scamper finally scuttled them. AS Hardin saw it, the pres sure and inexperience finally caught up. William 81 Mary, loser of nine straight in a carry-over string and o. this season,

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Penn State leads 19–⁠17–⁠1 in 37 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.