South Mountaineer Volume 12, Issue 23

              Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University AJumni Association
Vol. 12 - No. 23
MAY 4, 1970
Lacrossemen
(7-4) Romp
At Lafayette
An 8-4 victory over previously-undefeated Franklin and Marshall, followed by a 10-5 triumph
at Lafayette, enabled Lehigh's
lacrosse team (7-4) to stay in
contention for Middle Atlantic
Conference laurels with aseven-
and-two  league mark.
The victories followed losses
at the hands of Swarthmore, 6-5,
and Rutgers, 22-3.
Attackman Tim Suhrstedt,
leading point man in the MAC,
extended his loop totals to 17
goals and 38 assists for 55 markers. He's one of the nation's highest lacrosse scorers, particularly  in assists.
The triumph over F. & M. at
Lancaster, was particularly
satisfying to Coach Jim Scible's
forces because it followed the
19-goal rout against Rutgers and
set the stage for last Saturday's
key  victory  against    Lafayette.
Suhrstedt collected a goal and
five assists in the Diplomant fray
and added two goals and four
assists   against   the   Leopards.
Lehigh   faltered   only briefly
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Trophy Race
Nears Wire
Lehigh's lacrosse victory over
Lafayette on Saturday, matched
a gainst a pair of we e k e n d
triumphs for the Leopard baseball team, left the Engineers
holding a 5-4 advantage in their
1969-70 All-Sports Trophy
series against their neighboring
rivals with only three events
remaining.
Action W9S scheduled to
resume today (Tuesday, May 5)
with a tennis duel on the Saucon
Valley Fields.
There will be track on the same
fields May 12 and a golf match at
Saucon Valley Country Club May
15.
Athletes, Academic Leaders
Feted At Spring Dinner
Lehigh athletes and academic
leaders were spotlighted Apr- 27
as the Student Relations Committee of the University Alumni
Assn. sponsored its first annual
Scholar-Sports Banquet at the
Masonic Temple, Bethlehem.
Approximately 250 attended the
affair at which Kirk Pendleton,
former national wrestling
champion and now a Lehigh University trustee, was the principal
speaker.
Coaches and players on spring
and winter athletic squads,
prestige scholars, members of
Lehigh's undefeated GE College
Bowl team and members of
national scholarship honoraries
received  tribute  at  the dinner.
Pendleton, senior securities
analyst for the Pitcairn Co.,
Jenkintown, Pa., is the youngest
trustee in the 104-year history
of Lehigh University. He was
elected last October at the age
of 29.
An honor graduate, Class of
1963, he had an undefeated and
untied dual meet wrestling
record, won three eastern cham
pions and a national title. He's a
native of Bryn Athyn, Pa.
Dr. Albert C. Zettlemoyer,
Lehigh vice president and
provost, offered greetings from
the University and drew a parallel
between outstanding achievement
both on the athletic field and in
the classroom.
John K. (Jack) Conneen, retired
Bethlehem Steel Corp,executive,
presided as master of ceremonies. He's a Lehigh alumnus
who serves on the University's
Community Relations Council.
Principal guests, in addition to
Pendleton and Dr. Zettlemoyer
included Dr. Charles Seidle,
Lehigh vice-president; Alfred G.
Blake of Plainfield, N.J., president of the University's National
Alumni Assn.; William B.
Leckonby, Lehigh's director of
athletics; the Rt. Rev. Dean T.
Stevenson, Lehigh alumnus and
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of Harrisburg; Raymond Snyder
of Allentown, banquet co-chairman; Peter Facchiano, president
of the Lehigh Home Club, and
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Track Te
Impressive
At Quantico
A first victory over St.
Joseph's, 78-67 and an impressive showing in last weekend's
Q uantico, Va., Relays, highlighted
Lehigh track activities over the
past two weeks.
The Engineers (4-2) are given
an outside chance in this
weekend's (May 8-9) Middle
Atlantic Conference championships at Lafayette.
West Chester, rated one of the
teams to beat in the MAC test,
handed    the    Engineers  their
second loss in six dual outings,
119-25.
Headed by a fourth-place finish
in the four-mile relay, Lehigh
came up with its best performance ever at Quantico and Coach
John Covert termed the showing,
" satisfying."
Tim Steele ran a 4:11.3 first
leg on the four-mile team, and
Mike Strockbine followed with a
4:16, Ed Carney a 4;19 and Jack
Collins a 4:20 for a combined
total of 17:11.4.
The team finished less than
two seconds behind second-place
Georgetown. Villanova was first
and the Chicago Track Club third.
Scott Nicholas took fifth in the
10,000 - meter run- about61/4
miles - in the school record time
of 32:18.4, good enough to qualify him for the NCAA championships: freshman Bob Planker
cleared 6-4 and placed fifth in
the invitational high jump; and
the two-mile relay team of Bob
Gulash, Strockbine, Carney and
Steele won its section in the
school record time 7:45.4.
The 440-relay team of Neil
Tarulli, Mike Juengst, Gulash
and Jack Rizzo, set a school
record, finishing sixth overall
in 43 seconds flat; Gulash, Tarulli, Rizzo and Steele set a
school record of 3:28.4 in the
sprint medley; Tarulli tied the
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BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
RICH  REVTA
Golf Squad
Splits Pair
Lehigh golfers (4-3) split a pair
of 4-3    decisions, winning over
'Villanova and losing to Rutgers.
John Stupp's 22-hole triumph,
1-up, made the difference against the Wildcats
RUTGERS 4, LEHIGH 3
Bruce Young (R) def. Mike Waldon,
1 up 19 holes; Ed Down (R) def. Ralston
Merchant, 6 and 5; Maury Sacks (L) def.
Jim Winder, 2 and 1; Bill Rockstein
(R) def. John Stupp, 3 and 1; Pat Kenny
(L) def. Jim Mirva, 1 up; Dave Brown (L)
def. Mack Koles, 4 and 3; John Werner
(R)   def.   John   Lindenbaum,     4  and   3.
LEHIGH 4, VILLANOVA 3
Waldron (L) defeated Elliot 1-0; Hofman
(V) defeated Merchant 1-0; Kelly (V)
defeated Sacks 1-0; Stupp (L) defeated
O'Munnor 1-0; Kenny (L) defeated Bolgar
1-0; Brown (L) defeated Soltis 1-0; Fox
(V) defeated Beeken 1-0.
Baseballers
Battle Slump;
Revta Stars
Lehigh baseballers (5-11-1)
moved into this week burdened by
a four-game losing streak.
Since the last issue of The
South Mountaineer the Engineers split a doublehead-
er with Gettysburg, winning 8-1
before losing 3-1, and dropped
decisions to Lafayette, 11-5 and
19-6, Muhlenberg 7-3, and Rutgers 9-6.
Opposing batters touched up
a thin Lehigh mound staff for 50
runs in the six starts.
Veteran righthander Craig
Hofford scored the only victory
with a strong five-hit performance against Gettysburg in
Taylor Stadium. In the nightcap
the Engineers rallied in the bottom of the ninth, pulled to within
one run of the visitors, but fell
short as catcher Rich Revta
banged into a force play at second
base for the final out with the
bases loaded.
Revta, hitting the ball hard during his team's overall slump, enjoyed a big weekend during the
double loss to Lafayette.
In the  opener,  at Taylor, he
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Coach's Comment
"We haven't been getting the
kind of pitching we need and
this seems to have thrown us
into a general slump. Sore arms,
injuries, illness, you name it.
It's a funny game, though, and we
have the potential to come back/'
.   .   .  Stan Schultz, baseball.
All-American Thad Jamula
Receives Special Recognition
TIM    STEELE
Thad Jamula of Reading, Pa.,
a gigantic offensive tackle, has
accepted a plaque as Lehigh's
first All-American football star
in 12 years.
Presentation was made by head
coach Fred Dunlap, of the Engineers, during special ceremonies
at the University.
Jamula was named to a first-
string berth on the 1969 American
Football Coaches Assn. college
division team selected for the
Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester,
N.Y.
"This is a major honor,"
explains Dunlap. "The college
division actually is larger, in the
number of players, than the university division and to earn a
first-team berth on this team is
the highest tribute which can be
paid to a man.
" The pros know this to be a
fact. Two of Thad's teammates on
the All-American, quarterback
Terry Bradshaw of Louisiana
Tech and defensive tackle Clovis
Sweeney of Arkansas State, were
among the first draft picks.
"And,  although the  honor  is
largely of an individual nature,
his selection gives football at
Lehigh a major boost in terms of
recognition for the University.
It's a tribute to the kind of
schedule we play and to everyone
connected with the program,
particularly our offensive line
coach, John Whitehead.^
The 6-foot-4, 240 - pound
Jamula, a junior in the College
of Engineering at Lehigh, will be
co-captain of the 1970 Engineer
squad along with George Nicholson, a linebacker from Potomac,
Md.
They'll lead the Lehigh squad
into spring drills beginning May
26 on the Saucon Valley Fields,
the University's 500-acreathletic layout just south of the main
campus.
The Engineers' most-recent
All-American, before Jamula's
selection, was the Rev. Daniel
Nolan, a Catholic priest with a
parish in Albany, N.Y.,whoquar-
terbacked the 1957 squad to
Lambert Cup honors as the best
medium-sized collegiate football
team in the East.