Penn State photos: See the Nittany Lions in action ahead of Saturday's Blue-White game
The Penn State football program is one step closer to the Blue-White game. Head coach James Franklin and his staff oversaw spring practice No. 12 on Tuesday night. Sunny skies and warm temperatures greeted the team for their first of four practices this week. The last one will be the annual public scrimmage at Beaver Stadium, of course. That starts at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday following two more practices on Thursday and Friday.
“We got some bumps and bruises,” Franklin said when asked about the potential format for the spring game. “We’ve had a very physical spring ball. But we expect to have more of a traditional spring game. That’s where we’re at right now and what we plan on doing.”
The 11th-year leader of the Lions went on to say that, despite the bumps and bruises, he intends to break the Team Blue and Team White rosters up as equally as possible.
“I’m just kind of breaking it up, trying to make it as competitive as possible,” he said. “So strategically, putting guys on both teams, [so that] game has a chance to be competitive. Guys that we would probably consider starters. Say, like the way we rotate D-tackles. There are usually at least four D-tackles that are, in our mind, starters. Those guys are broken up [on opposite teams]. Same thing with the corners and so on an so forth. So, trying to kind of divvy it up so that you got guys that you feel like you can play in Big Ten games on either side of the ball and on either sideline [for the scrimmage].”
Blue-White Illustrated was on hand for the final open practice outside of Holuba Hall and the Lasch Building on Tuesday night. Take a look at what our cameras captured below.
Penn State photos: Spring practice No. 12 on April 9
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