Drew Allar came back to Penn State for his senior season determined lead the Nittany Lions to a national championship.

Now, with hopes of bringing the Nittany Lions their first NCAA football title since 1986 gone after a third-straight loss, the strong-armed quarterback will have to watch from the sidelines the rest of the way.

Allar suffered an apparent leg injury on a third-down play late in Penn State’s 22-21 loss to Northwestern on Saturday. He limped off the field with help, was replaced by backup Ethan Grunkemeyer and ruled out for the rest of the season.

“Drew will be done for the year,” Penn State coach James Franklin said.

Allar’s injury — not specified by the team — capped a three-week stretch in which the Nittany Lions fell from No. 2 in the Top 25 after losing in overtime at home to No. 3 Oregon, getting pounded by a previously winless UCLA team last week and being outplayed by Northwestern in front of another restless crowd at Beaver Stadium.

That crowd was noticeably smaller, too, as large sections of the vaunted, 40,000-seat student section were barren all night.

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Wide receiver Devonte Ross, who transferred to Penn State last summer to play with Allar, was sullen afterward.

“I love Drew,” Ross said. “That’s unfortunate. It’s a tough situation just knowing him as a person and knowing how much football means to him, how much this team means to him, it’s tough but I know it’s next man up.”

The Nittany Lions (3-3, 0-3 Big Ten), will have to find some answers and will now turn to Grunkemeyer to try and lead them to a bowl game.

They have to play at Iowa next week and still have trips to No. 1 Ohio State and Michigan State. A home game against No. 7 Indiana looms, too.

Allar ends his Penn State career fourth on the school’s career passing yardage list with 7,265 yards on 620-for-982 passing with 61 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.

He also carried the ball 218 times for 711 yards and 11 touchdowns.

“Ultimately it’s about the guys” Franklin said. “It’s about the guys in the locker room and they’re hurting. I’d do anything I could to take that hurt away from them, but like I told them, we’ve got to stick together, we’ve got to tune out all the noise and we’ve got to get to work.”

Drew Allar came back to Penn State for his senior season determined lead the Nittany Lions to a national championship.

Now, with hopes of bringing the Nittany Lions their first NCAA football title since 1986 gone after a third-straight loss, the strong-armed quarterback will have to watch from the sidelines the rest of the way.

Allar suffered an apparent leg injury on a third-down play late in Penn State’s 22-21 loss to Northwestern on Saturday. He limped off the field with help, was replaced by backup Ethan Grunkemeyer and ruled out for the rest of the season.

“Drew will be done for the year,” Penn State coach James Franklin said.

Allar’s injury — not specified by the team — capped a three-week stretch in which the Nittany Lions fell from No. 2 in the Top 25 after losing in overtime at home to No. 3 Oregon, getting pounded by a previously winless UCLA team last week and being outplayed by Northwestern in front of another restless crowd at Beaver Stadium.

That crowd was noticeably smaller, too, as large sections of the vaunted, 40,000-seat student section were barren all night.

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Wide receiver Devonte Ross, who transferred to Penn State last summer to play with Allar, was sullen afterward.

“I love Drew,” Ross said. “That’s unfortunate. It’s a tough situation just knowing him as a person and knowing how much football means to him, how much this team means to him, it’s tough but I know it’s next man up.”

The Nittany Lions (3-3, 0-3 Big Ten), will have to find some answers and will now turn to Grunkemeyer to try and lead them to a bowl game.

They have to play at Iowa next week and still have trips to No. 1 Ohio State and Michigan State. A home game against No. 7 Indiana looms, too.

Allar ends his Penn State career fourth on the school’s career passing yardage list with 7,265 yards on 620-for-982 passing with 61 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.

He also carried the ball 218 times for 711 yards and 11 touchdowns.

“Ultimately it’s about the guys” Franklin said. “It’s about the guys in the locker room and they’re hurting. I’d do anything I could to take that hurt away from them, but like I told them, we’ve got to stick together, we’ve got to tune out all the noise and we’ve got to get to work.”

Drew Allar came back to Penn State for his senior season determined lead the Nittany Lions to a national championship.

Now, with hopes of bringing the Nittany Lions their first NCAA football title since 1986 gone after a third-straight loss, the strong-armed quarterback will have to watch from the sidelines the rest of the way.

Allar suffered an apparent leg injury on a third-down play late in Penn State’s 22-21 loss to Northwestern on Saturday. He limped off the field with help, was replaced by backup Ethan Grunkemeyer and ruled out for the rest of the season.

“Drew will be done for the year,” Penn State coach James Franklin said.

Allar’s injury — not specified by the team — capped a three-week stretch in which the Nittany Lions fell from No. 2 in the Top 25 after losing in overtime at home to No. 3 Oregon, getting pounded by a previously winless UCLA team last week and being outplayed by Northwestern in front of another restless crowd at Beaver Stadium.

That crowd was noticeably smaller, too, as large sections of the vaunted, 40,000-seat student section were barren all night.

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Wide receiver Devonte Ross, who transferred to Penn State last summer to play with Allar, was sullen afterward.

“I love Drew,” Ross said. “That’s unfortunate. It’s a tough situation just knowing him as a person and knowing how much football means to him, how much this team means to him, it’s tough but I know it’s next man up.”

The Nittany Lions (3-3, 0-3 Big Ten), will have to find some answers and will now turn to Grunkemeyer to try and lead them to a bowl game.

They have to play at Iowa next week and still have trips to No. 1 Ohio State and Michigan State. A home game against No. 7 Indiana looms, too.

Allar ends his Penn State career fourth on the school’s career passing yardage list with 7,265 yards on 620-for-982 passing with 61 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.

He also carried the ball 218 times for 711 yards and 11 touchdowns.

“Ultimately it’s about the guys” Franklin said. “It’s about the guys in the locker room and they’re hurting. I’d do anything I could to take that hurt away from them, but like I told them, we’ve got to stick together, we’ve got to tune out all the noise and we’ve got to get to work.”

Thousands of attendees at the USS Midway Museum got the opportunity to speak to local World War Two veterans on Saturday.

“It’s kind of embarrassing because I really didn’t do anything,” said Roberta “Randy” Tidmore, who was being modest about her service in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.

Tidmore enlisted in 1944 and served for 2 and a half years. She was assigned to a motor transport unit at Marine Corp Base Quantico in Virginia. Before that, she also rolled up her sleeves and become a Rosie during the height of the war.

“I worked at this JIK company as a Rosie the Riveter for 9 months I think, in 1943,” said Tidmore.

The event was organized by the museum along with Honor Flight San Diego. Attendees got to speak to 10 WWII veterans on the hangar deck of the USS Midway and ask them about their service. The veterans also signed autographs and took photos with attendees.

“They’re dedicated to their country which I think is super important for everyone, especially this day and age,” said Stephanie Gallo, an attendee visiting the museum with her family.

Among the veterans sitting at the table was Al Hansen, who joined the Navy in 1943 at 16 years-old as a gunner with a Navy patrol bomber squadron in the Pacific Theater. Hansen has also volunteered every single week on the USS Midway with his wife Carol for the last 20 years.

“We came here one day and as we left, I said to Carol that I’d like to volunteer. She said, ‘What are you talking about, you haven’t volunteered for anything in your whole life!’,” said Hansen.

The meet and greet event came ahead of the Navy’s 250th birthday on October 14. The museum held a cake cutting ceremony with the veterans to honor the occasion.