South Mountaineer Volume 15, Issue 12

              Published by the Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 15 — No. 12 I
December 4, 1972!
V   BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Cagers, Wrestler s
HANK WISNIEWSKI (20) gets off hook shot against Rochester during
64-58 victory at Grace Hall. Other Engineers are Hal Lambert (22) and
Paul Hartzell.
Second-Half Rally Boosts
Engineers Past Rochester
A come-from-behind triumph
over Rochester, 64-58 Saturday
night in Grace Hall, gave Lehigh's
cagers their first scalp of the
season after a pair of setbacks.
It also marked the first college
coaching victory for new mentor
Tom Pugliese who earlier had
seen his charges bow to East
Stroudsburg State, 65-60, and
LaSalle, 75-59.
Some 1,200 spectators watched
the Rochester game and saw the
Engineers rewarded with a hard-
earned decision as they kept
pressuring the visiting Yellow-
jackets for the full 40 minutes.
Rochester, in its first start
of the campaign, jumped away
from an early 8-8 stalemate to
grab a six-point margin at 16-10.
The Jackets still led by six,
at 43-37, with 13 minutes left
in the game and Lehigh battling
grimly to stay close.
The Engineers kept plugging,
with Pugliese getting fresh troops
onto the floor from time to time,
until they came up with a nine
point string to move ahead 56-51
with four minutes remaining.
Hank Wisniewski of Rochelle
Park, N. J., launched this burst
with a layup and Terry Martin,
of  Cliffside  Park, N.J., pushed
Coach's Comment
"It's awful nice to get that first
win under your belt, as a new
coach. I've been encouraged by
the team. The young men are
learning a new system, working
very hard, and coming along."...
Tom Pugliese, basketball.
in a one-hander to tie the score
at 51.
Sophomore Hal Lambert, of
New Brunswick, N.J., produced
a vital three-point play on a
layup and foul conversion, and
then added another basket for the
56-51 spread which was Lehigh's
first lead of the contest.
Another deuce by Lambert
made it 60-53, with 1:15 left,
and a basket by Wisniewski extended the Engineer margin to
eight at 64-56 in the final seconds.
This was the biggest margin held
by either team in the closely
fought thriller.
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Lehigh
Athletes
Honored
Tim Steele (cross country),
Chuck Smith (football) and Paul
Degen (soccer) were named Most
Outstanding on their respective
squads Nov. 27 at the annual
fall sports banquet sponsored by
the Lehigh Home Club, the Alumni
Association and the University's
Department of Athletics.
Lee Barthold, Home Club president, was toastmaster for the
affair held in Windish Hall.
Among the speakers were Paul
Franz, vice president for development at Lehigh, and Bill Leckonby, the University's director
of athletics.
Head coaches Tom Fleck
(soccer), Fred Dunlap (football)
and John Cq\ert (cross country)
briefly^ reviewed_ their reasons
and introduced members of their
squads. Morgan Cramer, national
alumni association president,
was among the guests.
Captains for next season were
named including Tom Klonick,
Bill Altenpohl and Hank Kelly,
soccer; Wayne Rogers and Jim
Barnes, cross country, and Kim
McQuilken and Roger McFillin,
football.
George Pitsilos, of The Home
Club, served as dinner chairman.
TOM SCULLEY controls Rob Johnson of Lock Haven en route to 8-3
triumph on Bald Eagle mat. Engineer co-captain broke open tight bout
with strong third-quarter showing.
Lock Haven Routed, 38-5,
In Season's Opening Dual
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Three victories by falls, and
another by a disqualification,
helped Lehigh's wrestlers
bombard Lock Haven State in the
opening dual meet of the season
Saturday, 38-5, before 4,000
spectators in Thomas Fieldhouse
on the losers' campus.
It was a surprisingly onesided triumph for Coach Thad
Turner's young, rebuilt Engineer
varsity and it shocked the standing-room-only audience. Two
years ago Lehigh won there in a
19-17 thriller.
Saturday the issue never was in
doubt as the Engineers dropped
only one of the 10 bouts, and tied
Runners Crack Top Ten
Lehigh's cross country
runners, fresh from capturing
Middle Atlantic Conference and
IC4A championships, competed
in the National AAU tournament
at Chicago Nov. 25 and finished
a very respectable ninth against
a strong field of Olympians and
NCAA standouts.
Olympic star Frank Shorter
took individual honors while
leading the Florida Track Club
to first place. NCAA champion
Neal Cusack of East Tennessee
State placed first but was dropped
to fourth when he inadvertently
took a shortcut on a course
where lines where obliterated by
a snowfall.
Shorter    covered   the   10,000
meter   route  in  30:42 with Ed
Leddy  of East Tennessee State »
second and Jack Bachelor of the
Florida Track Club third.
Tim Steele of Denville, N. J.
topped Lehigh's entries with a
32nd place spot in 32:12. Wayne
Rogers of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,
followed in 33rd place. Jim
Barnes of Denville was 60th with
Brian Faraci of Haver straw,
N.Y., 64th, Rick Bourie of Springfield, Mass., 65th and Dave Cope
of Fogelsville, Pa., 70th.
There were 379 athletes in the
race representing 52 teams.
NAME--SCHOOL TIME
1-Frank Shorter-Florida TC 30:42
2-Ed Leddy-E.Tennessee St. 30:46
3-Jack Bachelor-FloridaTC 30:50
4-Neil Cusack-E.Tennesse St. 29:30
5-John Lunn-Colorado TC 31:01
6-Pete Duffy-West Valley TC 31:02
7-Ken Misner-Florida TC 31:04
8-Paul Talkington-Summit AC 31:07
9-Mike Keough-New York AC 31:09
10-Tracy Smith-Athletes-in-Act. 31:11
11-Dom Tibaduiza-W.Valley TC 3i;12
12-Tracy Elliott-Bowling Green
31:21
13-Craig Virgin-Lebanon HS
31:13
TEAM SCORES (Top 25)
Florida Track Club
42
E.Tennessee State
83
New York Athletic Club
112
West Valley Track Club
122
Colorado Track Club
140
E.Los Angeles Track Club
177
Athletes in Action
191
Bowling Green
191
Nebraska Track Club
193
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
254
Summit Athletic Club
260
U. of Chicago Track Club
271
Indiana Striders
298
Indiana State
300
Illinois Track Club
307
North Central Winged Foot CI.
308
Northwestern University
370
Indiana University
378
Kegonsa Track Club
392
Southern Illinois
400
Twin Cities Track Club
446
North Park
481
Iowa University
489
University of Chicago
491
DePaul University
498
one, while winning seven.
Freshman Mike Frick of Hamburg, N.J., opened the rout with a
fall at 118. Craig Reimer (158)
of Nazareth, Pa., and Barry Dixon
(167) of DuBois, Pa., also had
pins.
Mike Lieberman (190) of
Allentown, Pa., picked up the
disqualification triumph when his
opponent was ejected for refusing
to wrestle.
Frick, a 3-time N.J. state
champion and the most exciting
Lehigh prospect to don the Brown
and White since Mike Caruso in
1964, made his debut a
memorable one as he rolled up an
18-0 lead before flattening Ben
Shipman in 7:29 with a reverse
cradle. Shipman also is a freshman.
This gave the Engineers a
quick 6-0 advantage and the
capacity crowd, which had just
finished cheering Lock Haven to
a 24-15 preliminary junior
varsity triumph, got a taste of
what was to follow.
Reimer disposed of Bob Nagy
in 4:05, also with a reverse
cradle, and Dixon took care of
Don Adams in 4:27 with a double
bar and body press. Reimer was
trailing 2-1 at the start of the
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Coach's Comment
"The size of the Lock Haven
score surprised me, as it may
have surprised a lot of people.
I'm anxious to see how the team
fares in the quad. We'll know a lot
more this time next week.". . .
Thad Turner, wrestling.