South Mountaineer Volume 11, Issue 08

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Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 11 - No. 8
NOVEMBER 11, 1968
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Lehigh Athletes Take Aim
At Third Straight Trophy
Lehigh, Lafayette All-Sports
Trophy competition for 1968-69
began Wednesday (Nov. 13)
between the neighboring arch-
rivals.
Lafayette invaded the Saucon
Valley Fields for a soccer battle
at 3 p.m. in the inaugural event.
This trophy, placed in competition by the student governing
bodies at Lehigh and Lafayette,
goes to whichever institution wins
more varsity intercollegiate
duals between the rivals from
November through May. Freshman results aren't included.
Lehigh  won  the   first trophy,
in 1967, and repeated last year.
Trophy competition also is
scheduled for Thursday (Nov. 14)
when Lehigh and Lafayette cross
country forces tangle in Easton,
at 3:30 p.m. There also will be
a freshman run.
Friday (Nov. 15) finds Lehigh
and Lafayette freshman football
teams colliding on Lehigh's
Saucon Valley Fields, at 2:30
p.m., in a Freshman Parents
Weekend attraction. Lehigh won
48-0 last year.
Lehigh's varsity athletes
reclaim the spotlight Saturday
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Engineers or Packers?
Are Lehigh University athletic
teams to be called the Engineers,
a commonly-accepted nickname
for many, many years, or the
Packers, a nickname selected
during  a  campus   poll  in 1948?
Arcadia, the University's student governing body, the Brown
and White, campus newspaper and
WLRN campus radio station are
campaigning for new acceptance
of "Packers" as the official
nickname.
This name, they indicate, was
selected during a Brown and
White contest 20 years ago in
which students, faculty and
alumni participated. It was
chosen as "a living tribute to the
founder of the University, Asa
Packer."
Attempts to have the new name
accepted for use, in 1948, were
unsuccessful.
Certain University of f i cer s,
including those in the Office of
Public Information, are studying
the feasibility of a possible
change in nicknames.
In conjunction with the student
organizations and the Lehigh
Alumni Association, they are
looking into three possibilities
(1) accepting the nickname
"Packers" adopted in 1948, (2)
retaining the existing name
"Engineers", or (3) developing
method in which all concerned
can choose an entirely new
nickname.
Any comments?
EDWIN H„ GOTT,
second from left, Lehigh '29, president of
the United States Steel
Corpo, accepts letter-
sweater from William
B. Leckonby, the University's director of
athletics, during 1968
L - in - Life Dinner
sponsored by the
Lehigh Alumni Club of
New York at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
Others in photo are
Col. John H, Glenn,
Jr., left, first American to orbit the earth
and vice president for
corporate development, Royal Crown
Cola, New York, and
Dr. W. Deming Lewis,
Lehigh president.
Morgan J. Cramer,
Lehigh '29, president
of Royal Crown Cola
International, presided at the dinner. Gott
played lacrosse at
Lehigh.
Basketball Booster
Night Dec. 5
Plans   for   a      Basketball
Boosters Night are being made
by the Class of 1971 in conjunction with the Alumni Assn.
Festivities are to take place
Dec. 5 when Temple conies to
Grace Hall for Lehigh's first
home game of the 1968-69
campaign.
Delaware 11 Victorious;
Harrington, Berger Score
Delaware, charging toward the
Middle Atlantic Conference football championship, downed
Lehigh 37-13 last Saturday before
9,000 Fall Houseparty Weekend
guests in Taylor Stadium.
The Blue Hens, 4-0 in the
league and 5-3 overall, used four
pass interceptions to choke off
Lehigh threats as the Engineers
bowed for the sixth time this
season against two victories.
Sophomore fullback Chuck Hall
paced Delaware with 27 carries
for 188 yards and two touchdowns.
Quarterback Jerry Berger and
wingback Paul Harrington tallied
for the losers.
Lehigli was able to move the
ball most of the time, but the
Engineers were stopped four
times in the first half and again
in the third quarter before
scoring twice in the final period.
The Engineers' scoring-
marches covered 69 and 76
yards in 12 and six plays, respectively. Harrington made a good
catch of Rick Laubach's 14-yard
pass for the initial TD and Berger
went over from the 1 with 9:35
left. In the latter drive, Berger
connected with Dennis Clayton on
a 65-yard screen pass.
Delaware scored the first time
it had the ball when Tom DiMuzio
went the last two yards to end a
10-play, 70-yard march.
The Blue Hens' other scoring
drives covered 80, 60, 56 and 74
yards. Jeff Lippincott also added
a 37-yard field goal on the last
play of the first half. Delaware
had moved from its 8 to
Lehigh's 20.
Hall scored the Hens' second
and third TDs on runs of 3 and
17 yards.
Lehigh's offense, although
impressive, was unable to produce a big play when opportunity
beckoned.
In the opening quarter the
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Coach's Comment
" Bucknell and Lafayette are
our last two foes and triumphs
would let us finish the year at
4-6. We're shooting for tha<
result and the men have managed
to maintain their spirit despite a
lot of hard knocks. You have to
admire them.". . .Fred Dunlap,
football.
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