Summary
To hear his more celebrated teammates tell it, somebody ought to make a movie about Penn State's inspirational scout-team plugger, Patrick Mauti.
Oh, wait. Somebody already has. "Rudy," which came out in 1993, is the uplifting tale of Notre Dame walk-on Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger, who made up for a lack of talent with a bottomless supply of determination that was manifested daily on the practice field. He never made it into an actual game, though, until the regular-season finale of his senior season, when he ended the contest with a straight-out-of-Hollywood sack of the quarterback.See the full content of this document
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Penn State's Patrick Mauti an Inspiration
The Penn State journey of Mauti, a fifth-year senior from Mandeville, La., differs somewhat from that of Ruettiger's emergence as a Fighting Irish folk hero. For one thing, Mauti, a 5-10, 190- pound graduate student who is in his fifth year i...
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