South Mountaineer Volume 12, Issue 01

              Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 12 - No. 1
SEPTEMBER 22, 1969
BETHLEHEM. PENNA.
Engineers Beaten   In Opener
Citadel Eleven Victorious
Before 10,000 Spectators
Cross Country Champions
To Make Debut Saturday
Lehigh cross country runners,
defending champions of the
Middle Atlantic Conference,
make their 1969 debut Saturday
(Sept. 27.) against Pennsylvania
and Temple at Fair mount Park,
Philadelphia. Competition starts
at 11 a.m.
Coach John Covert expects to
discover early just how strong
his highly-touted squad is
because Penn was one of only two
teams to defeat the Engineers
last season and the Quakers have
graduates of a freshman crew
which handed the Lehigh frosh
their only loss.
Lehigh has looked very promising in practice sessions with
Middle Atlantic Conference
champion   Ed   Carney  of White
Plains, N.Y., fighting off a
challenge from Tim Steele of
Boonton, N. J., for the No. 1 spot.
Steele won MAC and IC4A frosh
laurels in 1968.
Close behind them are Bob
Detrick of Bethel Park, Pa., John
Heil of Springfield, Pa., Scott
Nicholas of Milford Square, Pa.,
and Jack Collins of Newburgh,
N.Y. Covert tabs Nicholas "a
real surprise" in early tests.
Collins was a junior college All-
American last season.
Roger Jackucewicz of New
Britain, Conn., although hampered by an injury which involved
removal of a glass splinter from
his foot, has come along faster
than expected. Covert originally
feared he would miss much of the
campaign.
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Record TV Exposure
For Lehigh Grid Squad
Lehigh football will receive
record television exposure this
season with all five home contests
scheduled for delayed viewing
according to an announcement by
Sam Connor, the University's
director  of public  information.
WLVT-TV, Channel 39, the
Lehigh Valley's educational outlet, and Service Electric Cable
Television will provide the
coverage.
Channel 39 will film games
against Ithaca and Lafayette for
presentation the same day, Ithaca
at 6:30 p.m. and Lafayette at
5:30 p.m.
Service Electric is filming
contests against The Citadel,
Gettysburg and Colgate for showing the following Mondays at
7 p.m.
Additional television exposure
also is planned for the winter
program with wrestling and
basketball featured.
Shel Siegel, Channel 39 general
manager, and Connor will join
representatives of Ithaca and
Lafayette, respectively, in
narrating those games. Veteran
sportscaster, Ernie Stiegler,
aided by former coach J. Birney
Crum, handles play by play for
Service Electric.
The Engineers also will be
featured on a Lehigh-Lafayette
football series of Wednesday
shows, at 10 p.m. over Channel
39, on alternate weeks. Programs
begin Wednesday (Sepf. 24) with
Lehigh-citadel highlights narrated by Engineer coach Fred
Dunlap.
Lehigh contests against Ithaca
and Lafayette will be offered to
the Pennsylvania Public Television Network which includes
outlets     in    Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Scranton, Wilkes-
Barre, Hershey and State
College. Delayed viewings of
these games also are being
arranged for Ithaca, N.Y., and
Washington, D.C.
Sixty-nine students, from ten
states, received numerals for
participation in 1969 freshman
Spring sports at Lehigh.
Sandy Sala
Tennis Squa
Sandru (Sandy) Salam, of East
Pakistan, has been named coach
of Lehigh's varsity tennis squad
for the 1970 season. His appointment was announced by William
SANDY SALAM
New Coach
Paul Koepff, above,
mainstay of Lehigh's
front four defensive
line, earned a berthon
the Eastern College
Athletic Conference
division 2 weekly all-
star team for his alert
play against The
Citadel.
Koepff, a senior
from Morris Plains,
N. J., recovered three
Bulldog fumbles and
intercepted a deflected
forward pass.
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B. Leckonby, director of athletics.
Salam, former Eastern College Athletic Conference singles
champion and captain of the 1969
Engineer team which posted a
10-2 record, was runnerup in the
singles division of this summer's
East Penn Open Tournament held
in Bethlehem.
He succeeds the late William
T. Christian, veteran coach and
ticket manager at Lehigh who died
last May of a heart attack one
week after his 1969 squad had
completed its winning campaign.
Salam's appointment is an interim one. He's completing a five
year Arts-Engineering course.
His athletic eligibility, asaplay-
er, has been completed. .
Last season, he helped Lehigh
turn back* Gettysburg, Haverford,
Rider, Muhlenberg, Scranton,
Rutgers, Drexel, Lafayette,
Dickinson and Penn State. Losses
came at the hands of Bucknell
and Swarthmore. Salam was recipient of the 1969 Mercur Trophy as the most outstanding member of the varsity squad.
An aerial barrage triggered by
senior quarterback Tony
Passander paced The Citadel to a
41-16 victory over Lehigh last
Saturday in the opening game of
the 1969 football season for each
team.
Approximately 10,000 spectators watched the battle in Taylor
Stadium.
Passander, a Yankee from
Derby, Conn., was the big man for
the Rebel squad from Charleston,
S.C. He completed 15 of 21 aerials
for 237 yards and three touchdowns and plunged across for
another score.
Lehigh, launching its 86th
campaign as college football
starts its Centennial Year, tallied
touchdowns on short runs by
sophomore halfback Don Diorio
and senior halfback Ron Kovatis,
and added an extra point and a
field goal by kicking specialist
Ron Schattenberg.
Schattenberg's three - pointer
was a 28-yard boot at the start of
the second quarter. Diorio fought
six yards for his TD later in the
period, slicing The Citadel's lead
to 14-9 with 3:24 left in the half,
but the Engineers couldn't get any
closer.
It was 34-9 when Kovatis, on
his only running attempt of the
day, plunged a yard into the end
zone with 4;56 remaining in the
game. Schattenberg's conversion, his 12th bullseye in 12
tries over two years, completed
Lehigh's scoring.
The Engineers recovered five
Bulldog fumbles and intercepted
three   passes   but   The  Citadel
RUSHING
Gerry Berger
Don Diorio
Jim   Petrillo
Justin Plummer
PASSING
Gerry Berger
Jim Baxter
RECEIVING
* Mike Leib
GERRY BERGER Paul Harrington
Jack Paget
Yardage Leader        John Ayisworth
still had too much firepower with
Passander locating receivers
with uncanny accuracy.
Defensive  tackle  Paul Koepff
was brilliant in defeat, recover-'
ing three of the Bulldog bobbles
and intercepting a deflected pass.
The Citadel opened the scoring
after five minutes of play when
Passander connected with Champ
Reilly on a 59-yard scoring pitch.
Reilly, racing behind Lehigh's
defense, caught the ball at the 16
and scampered into the end zone.
Less than three minutes later
Passander fired a 12-yard TD
strike to Gene Shields at the goal
line. Jim Leber's conversions
gave the visitors an early 14-0
advantage.
Late in the stanza the Engineers began playing their best
ball of the day. With Gerry Berger sparking the attack they
drove from their 37 to the Bulldogs' 12 before bogging down.
Schattenberg provided his field
goal to put Lehigh on the board
with 13:49  left in the session.
Following the ensuing kickoff
Lehigh remained effective, moving from its 25 to the Citadel 9
before one of Berger's aerials
was intercepted at the goal line.
Fine catches by Mike Leib and
Paul Harrington, as Berger connected, spiced both of these assaults. After the interception
Lehigh forced The Citadel to punt
and then marched 49 yards for
its first TD with senior Jim
Baxter at quarterback.
He passed to Jim Petrillo for
16 yards and to John Ayisworth
for 10. Justin Plummer, Diorio
and Jack Rizzo carried to the
six and Diorio plowed across the
goal line off the left side. Trailing 14-9 the Engineers went for
a   two-point   conversion, whicr
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Game At A Glance
Leh.    Cit.
First downs 18       25
Net yds. rushing 164     210
Net yds. passing 154     250
Total yards 318    460
Passes attempted 34       28
Completed 12      17
Intercepted by 34
Punts 12        5
Avg. distance 37      36
Fumbles lost 1 5
Yds. penalized 105       96
LEHIGH LEADERS
Att,
9
12
14
11
Att
18
16
Avg.
4.8
3.5
2.5
3.0
Yds.
43
42
35
34
Comp Yd Int
6      83     2
6    71      2
CAUGHT   YDS
2 43
3 38
2 30
3 25