alone today as the only Nittany Lion to
be the rushing leader for four years. A?er
capping his All-America career with 99
yards and the winning touchdown in a
14-10 victory over Miami in the 1987 Fiesta
Bowl, a game that delivered Penn State
its second national championship, Dozier
was dra?ed in the ense, a?er the 1978 team
had been No. 1 for the ered
a heartbreaking 14-7 loss to Alabama in
the Sugar Bowl. Paterno thought so highly
of Warner that he moved veteran senior
tailback Mike Guman to =anker and red-
shirt freshman Joel Coles temporarily to
defense and inserted Warner as the backup
to junior Booker Moore for the Nittany
Lions' season opener against visiting Rut-
gers.
When the Scarlet Knights kicked o>,
Warner actually was Penn State's prime
kick returner and quickly brought the
crowd to its feet with a long runback. He
would have three more such returns that
a?ernoon for a total of 109 yards. Years
later, in the book "What It Means To Be a
Nittany Lion," Warner remembered what
happened later in the ense and
defense and return in the second quarter.
"Warner's got all the tools," Paterno told
reporters. "He's fun to watch. He can run
well, and we hope he can keep on im-
proving."
Warner had three more 100-yard games
that season, seven more in 1981 (including
a 256-yard game at Syracuse that set a
school record that stood for 21 years before
it was broken by Larry Johnson) and six
in his senior year. He returns with a 28.8-yard average
on 32 attempts (1979-81) and holds the
record with three touchdowns on those
returns. He also is second behind Johnson
in all-purpose yards with 4,982 (3,398
rushing, 662 receiving, 922 on kicko> re-
turns).
A?er eight years in the NFL, seven of
them with the Seattle Seahawks, who had
chosen him in the
