Scoring Summary
1st	07:25	PSU - Kevin Kelly 34-yard field goal
	02:53	PSU - Kevin Kelly 22-yard field goal
2nd	11:04	PSU - Kevin Kelly 33-yard field goal
	07:31	NU - Tyrell Sutton 1-yard run (Howells kick)
	00:37	PSU - Tony Hunt 1-yard run (Kelly kick)
3rd	10:43	PSU - Kevin Kelly 36-yard field goal
	02:21	PSU - Tony Hunt 14-yard run (Kelly kick)
	00:15	PSU - Tony Hunt 6-yard run (Kelly kick)

UNIVERSITY PARK -- The offense, a 50-yard reception at a time, is coming along. As it proved on several occasions Saturday against a Northwestern defense ripe for the picking, however, it does not seem to be in any hurry to do so.
  "When you blow as many chances as we did the first half," Penn State head coach Joe Paterno said, "unless your defense really plays a heck of a football game you're probably gonna get licked."
  The Nittany Lions -- as they have for the majority of the last three seasons -- played that kind of defense for Paterno in a 33-7 smothering of the Wildcats before an announced 108,837 in Beaver Stadium.
  Tony Hunt ran for 137 yards and three touchdowns, Kevin Kelly was flawless in four field-goal tries and Anthony Morelli and Deon Butler got the deep ball working for Penn State (3-2, 1-1 Big Ten), which bounced back from a frustrating 28-6 loss at Ohio State.
  But once again, the Lions' swarming, playmaking defense carried the day, refusing to allow Northwestern (2-3, 0-1) to take advantage of another afternoon of red-zone breakdowns from the Penn State offense.
  "We're a group that ... it's going to be tough sometimes, the offense sometimes starts slow," said defensive tackle Ed Johnson. "We understand that. It's our job to keep them up, to keep them going."
  That's precisely what they did until a pair of third-quarter touchdown jaunts by Hunt gave Paterno some breathing room and the cold, wet crowd -- the seventh-largest in Beaver Stadium history -- some reason to cheer.
  Penn State forced three-and-outs on each of Northwestern's first two possessions.
  The Lions, with Butler pulling in rainbows from Morelli and Hunt breaking tackles at every turn, racked up yardage but had to settle for three field goals from Kelly.
  After the third, the Lions tried an onside kick, which Northwestern's Chris Malleo recovered at his own 49-yard line.
  This only seemed to incense the Penn State defense. On first down, safety Donnie Johnson hammered intended receiver Rasheed Ward on an incomplete pass. On second down, linebacker Paul Posluszny knifed into the backfield and dragged ballcarrier Terrell Jordan for a 5-yard loss. The Wildcats were forced to punt again.
  Northwestern finally got on the board after linebacker Nick Roach intercepted a Morelli pass and returned it to the Penn State 16-yard line.
  Even from there, the Wildcats needed five plays (and a personal foul against the Lions) to punch in their only score of the game, a 1-yard option run in which tailback Tyrell Sutton (eight carries, 40 yards) stretched the ball just over the goal line.
  On their final drive of the half, with Penn State dropping back into a prevent defense, the Wildcats picked up 25 yards on a Sutton run and 36 yards on an Andrew Brewer pass to Ross Lane, giving them 127 total yards for the half. Penn State had 329 at that point.
  "We had our opportunities. You can't play from down against anybody in the Big Ten, especially that team," said Brewer, who made his first career start in place of an injured Mike Kafka. "I had confidence our guys could do it and we kept coming up short each time."