After the game Penn State's Michael Robinson looked like he had just been in a 12-round boxing match with Lennox Lewis, as his left eye was bruised and swollen shut.

Boxing was about the only thing that Robinson didn't do on Saturday afternoon for the Penn State football team against Temple.

The Owls were responsible for his swollen eye. Robinson said his eye was getting hit on every play.

For the second time in his career he started at tailback, lining up at wide receiver and quarterback within two series, while taking time to return punts on the side.

Before the game ended, Robinson even recorded a tackle, bringing down Zamir Cobb, who converted Temple's fake punt.

The dilemma that Robinson creates for coaches is one that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, doesn't mind having -- figuring out where to play him.

"Robinson's such a good athlete. The problem with Robinson is that he's got to practice at quarterback," Paterno said. "He's going out on some tailback plays, he's running a lot of other things, he's running back punts and if he wasn't as strong of an athlete as he is, he probably couldn't do it all. He's an easy guy to coach."

Robinson finished the afternoon as Penn State's leading rusher with 84 yards on nine carries, most of which came when he broke free down the right sideline for 53 yards before being brought down from behind early in the fourth quarter.

"Joe [Paterno] came to me on the sideline, and he said, 'give it to him and let him go,' " Robinson said. "The offensive line did a great job, and I bounced it outside."

The only pass that Zack Mills completed in the first quarter was to Robinson on a six-yard screen pass.

He returned two punts for 18 yards.

At the position that Robinson is listed at -- quarterback -- he took five snaps before replacing Mills in the closing minutes and he didn't throw a pass.

Robinson said that a couple times passes were called when he was lined up behind center, but that the Nittany Lions were forced to check out of them or a fumbled snap prevented him from passing.

He did attempt two passes, but both fell incomplete. On both, he took a handoff from Mills. On the first one, his pass landed in-between wide receivers Kinta Palmer and Tony Johnson. On his second pass, he overthrew Mills, who ran a route after handing the ball off.

Robinson said he is having fun doing everything that he is doing, but that receiver is his favorite position other than quarterback.

"I enjoy playing receiver," Robinson said. "It reminds me of being in the backyard and going out, and going up to catch passes."

Most would believe that playing so many different positions would be extremely difficult, but it has not been that way for Robinson.

Fullback Sean McHugh said that being a quarterback by trade allows Robinson to play anywhere.

"The quarterback's job is to know what everyone on the field is doing," McHugh said. "It's definitely to his advantage, because he knows what everyone is doing and can fill in for anyone."

Robinson still spends most of the week with the quarterbacks. He said that he never attends the running back meetings or wide receiver meetings, and that he gets the same number of repetitions under center that Mills gets.

But when Robinson was coming out of Varina High School in Richmond, Va., he didn't expect at this stage of his college career to be playing so many spots on the field.

"I thought I'd be on my way out of here next year," Robinson said. "But I never expected to be returning punts or playing receiver, or the things I do right now. But I have done it in high school, so it's kind of easy for me."

He made everything he did on Saturday look easy.