When members of Penn State's club sports teams cleaned Beaver Stadium alongside Penn State football players this fall, there were a couple rules they had to follow.

First: No taking pictures of the football players.

Second: No speaking to reporters about the football team's involvement in the cleanup.

According to Erin Regenfuss, Penn State's club sports manager, violation of these rules could mean that the clubs would lose any money they would have raised by cleaning the stadium and possibly be put on probation or suspended.

"We were hoping to use that as a deterrent of having any problems," Regenfuss said. "We are trying to minimize the distraction of having the football team there while the clubs are trying to clean."

Four club sports teams get the opportunity to clean Beaver Stadium each Sunday following a home football game. Each club that does a satisfactory job stands to be paid $1,625 from the athletic department for its efforts, Regenfuss said.

But Regenfuss didn't want club team members saying anything to reporters because she was looking to avoid "inaccurate information" being spread through the press.

Taking pictures of the football players was forbidden, Regenfuss added, "because they're there to clean the stadium, and it's a long enough job as it is, without wanting to take pictures."

The regulations were entirely Regenfuss' creation; the football team did not ask her to impose these rules, she said.

And they have been a success so far, Regenfuss said -- no clubs have violated the rules, so no funding has been withheld and no suspensions or probations have been levied to any club sports teams.

-- Kevin