More than 40 years, 157 wins, 42 losses, 66,000 miles, 41 guests and 240 gallons of University Creamery ice cream.

All of this has culminated to 1964 Penn State graduate Bill Hartman's home football game attendance streak, and tomorrow he will attend his 200th consecutive home game.

"I remember listening to Penn State on the radio in 1948 when they were playing in the Cotton Bowl," he said.

The first game he attended at Beaver Stadium was as a student when Penn State played Boston University and won, 20-0.

"My parents had season tickets at the time and would come up to visit me for the games," Hartman said.

The official streak, however, began in September 1973, when he came back to watch the football team from the other side of the stadium as an alumnus in Row 80, Section EE. That year, the Nittany Lions were undefeated, and Hartman has remained in Section EE ever since.

He said his football tradition began with his father, who graduated from Penn State in 1934.

"When I first got season tickets, I was only given two and always brought my father up with me," Hartman said. "After every game, I would go to the pay phone and call my mom to ask her what she thought of the game."

Hartman said his mother was the most loyal Penn State fan of the family, even though she never attended the university and used to bring her to the first game of every season.

However, she was diagnosed with cancer late in life and could no longer attend games.

Hartman said when Penn State played Kentucky, she convinced doctors to let her take a break from her cancer treatment to go home and sit in her "lucky chair" so she could watch the game with her son.

"Penn State was losing, and she looked up and said, 'I don't ask much, but this is probably the last game I am going to see,' " Hartman said. "Kentucky did not score after that, and Penn State wound up winning."

Since her death, Hartman has been trying to keep up the tradition with his daughter, friends and co-workers.

Co-worker and friend Joe Hammond will attend Hartman's 200th game with him tomorrow.

"Bill is the greatest Penn State fan you will ever meet," Hammond said. "His car is filled with history books and yearbooks of PSU. He can pinpoint any game, player, weather condition and score."

Hammond said Hartman has passed down the love of Penn State football to him, his son, neighbors and friends.

Kim Smith will also join Hartman and Hammond at tomorrow's game.

"It is a thrill to be involved with Joe Paterno's legacy and become caught up in the moment," she said.

Hartman has had the same routine for every home game: He drives three hours from his home in Germantown, Md., to University Park to tailgate and listen to Penn State's Blue Band.

"Before every single game, I go to the Creamery and get bittersweet mint," Hartman said. "The only two times I did not do that, we lost to teams that we shouldn't have."

Hartman said despite recent criticisms about the coaching staff, the team always comes out ready to play.

"Like many fans, I feel bad to see the team perform the way they have been for Joe [Paterno]'s sake," he said. "If that man doesn't win another game, he could still stay and coach as long as he wants, for all I'm concerned."

No matter what happens, Hartman added, the players out there are just college students.

"It is much nicer when we win, though," he said.