Penn State destroy Eastern Ilinois

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Published: October 10, 2009

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... and we even love the special teams after Penn State beat the crap out of Eastern Illinois by the score of 52-3.

Actually, the special teams - on the offensive end - could do with some work, and we still can't work out why in God's name Evan Royster is returning kicks. Seriously.

But the running backs - as you'd expect, were awesome all day, with Evan Royster running for 94 yards and Stephfon Green for 58. Darryl Clark even ran for 11 - and a touchdown - while replacement Kevin Newsome ran for nearly 50 in seven attempts.

Quarterbacking-wise, Clark was nearly perfect, throwing for three touchdowns for 234 yards in a 13-19 effort as Derrick Moye, Chaz Powell and the rest of the receivers outmuscled Eastern Illinois' much smaller defenders.

Our only complaint in Newsome: we noticed that he fumbled the ball a couple of times on a single drive, which irritated me. So did the fact that he took his helmet off and then argued with Joe Paterno when he was told...

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