South Mountaineer Volume 12, Issue 08

              Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 12   - No. 8
NOVEMBER 10, 1969
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Delaware   Outscores   Engineers
Air Attack Decisive After Lehigh Halts
Blue Hens' Vaunted Rushing Game
LEHISH-LAFAYETTE   TV   FEATURE
Television stations in Binghamton, N_Y.f
Pittsburgh, Erie, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre
and Bethlehem will carry a delayed showing of the 105th Lehigh-Lafayette football game to be played Saturday, Novc 22,
in Taylor Stadium.
WLVT, Channel 39 of Bethlehem, will
originate the show with general manager Shel Siegel handling the play-by-play
assisted by Sam Connor, public information director at Lehigh, and Bob Smith,
public  information  director  at Lafayette.
Schedule of showings:
Sunday, Nov. 23 -- WLVT Channel 39
of Bethlehem and WVIA Channel 44 of
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, at noon;
Thursday, Nov. 27 -- WQLN Channel 54
of Erie, check station for time;
Tuesday, Dec. 2 -- WQEX Channel 16
of    Pittsburgh,    check   station   for   time;
Tuesday, Dec. 9 -- WSKG Channel 46
of   Binghamton,   check   station   for  time.
There is a possibility that WET A, Channel 26 of Washington, D.C., may add the
game to its schedule, and it also will be
made available to other stations on the
Pennsylvania educational television network.
Soccermen Drop 2 Games,
Lose Chance For Crown
Lehigh tumbled out of the race
for Middle Atlantic Conference
soccer honors last week following
losses to Lafayette, 2-1, and
Bucknell, 2-0, the latter in,
overtime.
Coach Tom Fleck's club (8-3)
needed a victory over Bucknell
to tie the Bisons for first place
in the western section.
Dave Rath scored.both goals
for Bucknell in overtime, the
first on a short boot and the
second on a header coming off a
corner kick.
Lafayette upset the Engineers
as Joe Lizzi tallied in the fourth
period to snap a 1-1 stalemate.
Paul Lowenberg* s marker had
given Lehigh an early 1-0
advantage.
This marked the start of
1969-70 all-sports trophy action
and  gave  Lafayette first blood.
BUCKNELL
POS.
LEHIGH
Howson
G
Strickland
Barn
RFB
Laitala
Mitchell
LFB
Fetters
Nore
HRB
White
Strict
CHB
Perlow
Greenwood
LHB
Gaughen
Aggar
OB
Bayne
Marg
IR
Newton
Rath
CF
Post
Kline
IL
Adams
Gratino
OL
Ferrell
BUCKNELL
0    0
0
0    2 —   2
LEHIGH
0     0
0
0    0 — 0
Goals:   Rath   2.
LEHIGH
POS.
LAFAYETTE
Hartman
G
Coates
Fetters
RB
Weiss
Laitala
LB
Stockbridge
Reisner
RH
Caldwell
Perlow
CH
Vitale
Gaughen
LH
Landis
Ferrell
OR
Willis
Newton
IR
Lizzi
Post
CF
Diment
Bayne
IL
Goetz
Lowenberg
OL
Fanning
Lehigh
1     0
0
0    —    1
Lafayette
0    0
1
1     —     2
Lehigh goal: Lowenberg.
Lafayette
goals:
Lizzi,    Fanning. As
sists: Goelz,
Fanning.
Runners Blank Columbia
For Ninth Straight Win
Lehigh's powerful cross
country runners registered their
ninth straight victory, and their
eighth shutout, with a 15-50 rout
of Columbia on the Saucon Valley
Fields.
The Engineers (9-1) settled for
a six-way tie for first place
among Ed Carney, Tim Steele,
Bob Detrick, John Heil, Scott
Nicholas and Roger Jackucewicz.
Jack Collins of Lehigh was next
with Keith Home ninth and John
Swanger tenth.
Coach John     Covert,     who
handles varsity and freshmen,
got another strong effort from
his frosh who whipped the Lions,
19-39. Mike Strockbine finished
first for the eighth straight time
as the Little Engineers (7-1)
chalked up their seventh in a row.
The varsity summary:
LEHIGH   15,     COLUMBIA     50
1. Carney, uetrick, Heil,
Nicholas, Jackucewicz, and
Steele (L); 8. Ugelou (C); 9.
Home (L); 10. Swanger (L). Time:
25:46.
Mighty Delaware, its awesome
ground game choked off by
Lehigh's rugged front line, turned
to the air last Saturday to out-
score the Engineers, 42-14,
before 14,000 fans in Newark,
Del.
Quarterback Tom DiMuzio
passed for five touchdowns and
ran 34 yards on a bootleg play
for the sixth while completing
22 of 34 aerials for 369 yards.
The Blue Hens (7-1) totaled 507
yards, about 60 beneath their
seasonal average. They punished
Rutgers 44-0 one week earlier in
a 600-yard-plus romp. The
Engineers (2-5-1) fought them
all the way in a battle which
was closer than the score would
indicate.
Lehigh outrushed the Lambert
Cup leaders, 153-127, and trailed
only 23-21 in first downs. It was
in the air that Delaware had the
big edge, on the arm of DiMuzio,
and even here the Engineers
enjoyed a highly-respectable day
as Jim Baxter completed 19 of 32
tosses for 228 yards and two
scores. Lehigh's total offense
stood at 393 yards, only 114 less
than the team ranked fourth
nationally among small-coUege
powers.
Coach Fred Dunlap*s forces
startled the Hens during the first
quarter with a hard-rock defensive effort which resulted in a
scoreless period. Delaware
runners, who had churned out
more than 400 yards against
Rutgers, found themselves
stymiled so consistently tnat
DiMuzio was called upon to move
upstairs.
In a drive covering 74 yards
he completed four passes for 71
yards, the TD coming on a 27-
yarder to Pat Walker. It was a
floater on a fourth-down and
short yardage situation.
This began a 3-touchdown blitz
early in the second period.
Moments after the score a
pass interception gave Delaware
the ball on Lehigh's 26. DiMuzio
pitched 12 yards to Bill
Armstrong, Dick Kelley gained
five on the ground and then took
a 9-yard TD aerial as the score
became 14-0.
Another interception regained
the pigskin for the Hens at the
Lehigh 29 minutes later and on a
third-down play DiMuzio hit
Walker on another floater, 26
yards for a TD.
Near the end of the half reserve
quarterback Jim Colbert of
Delaware tried a sweep from his
end zone and was nailed for a
safety by Paul Koepff and Frank
Cavagnaro. The resulting free
kick set the stage for a Lehigh
touchdown after Don Diorio
returned it 23 yards to the Hen 34.
Baxter's pass to Jack Rizzo
moved the ball to the 19 and on
fourth down at the 14 the Lehigh
quarterback     fired    a    scoring
•■ •■■•>..'   •     '    ■     -■■■■■ ■ ■■;■:■:■: : ■   ■  ■    ■    ■,. '■   .
RON KOVATIS (40) of Lehigh grabs a pass
from Jim Baxter (14) for yardage against Delaware. Baxter completed 19 of 32 for 228
yards and two touchdowns. Kovatis caught three
of them.
aerial to split end Mike Leib.
Ron Schattenberg missed the
extra point, only his second
failure  in 19 tries this season.
Delaware, having capitalized
on the two interceptions, led 21-8
at the intermission.
The Hens moved 94 yards in
nine plays, after a punt, for their
fourth marker. Passes accounted
for almost all of the yardage
and the TD came on a 21-yard
heave from DiMuzio to Walker.
Lehigh, with Baxter showing
his finest passing touch of the
season,     retaliated     with an
Game At A Glance
LEH.
DEL.
First downs
21
23
Net yds. rushing
153
127
Net yds. passing
240
380
Total   yards
393
507
Passes attempted
34
35
Completed
20
23
Intercepted by
0
5
Punts
7
7
Avg. distance
40
36
Fumbles   lost
0
1
Yds. penalized
84
63
LEHIGH LEADERS
RUSHING     ATT
NET
AVG
Petrillo         11
37
3.4
Diorio            10
34
3.4
Berger            3
32
10.6
Rizzo               9
26
2.9
PASSING Att   Comp Yds Int
Baxter        32     19
228   4
RECEIVING   NO
YDS
TD
Leib                10
134
1
Rizzo               4
45
1
Kovatis            3
16
0
82-yard march in 11 tries to
make the score 29-14.
Jimmy completed seven
aerials in seven attempts on this
drive, four of them to Leib, and
got the TD on a 21-yarder to
Rizzo. Leib, enjoying his greatest
receiving performance of 1969,
caught 10 passes for 134 yards.
Previously he had grabbed 14 in
seven contests.
Late in the quarter, with defenders dropping off to protect
against his overhead barrage,
DiMuzio bootlegged around left
end and raced 34 yards for a
touchdown.
Early in the final period
DiMuzio fired out toGardyKahoe
in the left flat with the receiver
sprinting 57 yards down the
sideline to complete the scoring.
Lehigh still fought back,
moving from its own 20 to a first
down on the Delaware six before
running out of steam at the two
where Bill Oehlke couldn't gain
on a line smash and a fourth-
down pass was incomplete.
(Continued on Page 2)
Coach's Comment
"We went after them all the
way. . .played well. Miscues were
capitalized upon and these hurt us
badly. Also, we simply couldn't
match their overall speed, in the
line, backfield, everywhere.
Physically we gave as much as
we took. No one backed off.". . .
Fred Dunlap, football.