South Mountaineer Volume 14, Issue 25

              1972 Reunion Program Slated June 2, 3, 4
(SEE PAGE 2)
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Vol, 14 - No, 25
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BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Cup Superiority Over Lafayette
Highlighted LU Winning Year
Nine of 13 Teams Finished
Above .500 In 71-72;
Lafayette Outscored, 8-4
Continued superiority over
arch-rival Lafayette, and nine
winning teams in 13 sports, highlighted Lehigh University intercollegiate athletic competition
during the academic year which
ends next month.
The  Engineers   rolled up 106
victories,  against   69   losses and
two ties, during 1971-72 for a
.606 winning percentage.
Against Lafayette, in the annual
all-sports trophy series, they
compiled a convincing 8-4 advantage to take the cup for the
fifth time in six years. There
was a 6-6 deadlock last season
after Lehigh had won it four
straight times.
Lafayette never has finished
ahead of the Engineers in this
action which began in 1967.
As a matter of fact Lehigh's
domination was even greater than
the 8-4 margin indicates. Lafayette won twice each in basketball and baseball. Lehigh took
everything else including triumph
over the Leopards in football,
soccer, cross-country, swimming, track, golf, lacrosse and
tennis.
Rifle once again was the most
successful sport at Lehigh as
the sharpshooters coached by
ROTC M/Sgt. Joe Kress finished
16-0 with a fourth straight
Eastern League championship
and a first place in the NRA
sectional tournament. They were
14-0 in the league.
The second and third most
successful teams, both coached
by John Covert, were cross
country  (1.0-1)  and track (4-1).
Soccer (10-3-1) came home
with a Middle Atlantic Conference
championship and football (8-3)
enjoyed its greatest season since
1961.
Wrestling, swimming,baseball
and golf squads all finished above
the .500 mark, the grapplers
for  the   20th consecutive  year.
John Hill, of Somerset, N.J.,
was Lehigh's athlete-of-the-year
nationally as he gained Associated Press college division All-
American honors as a football
center, was Football Roundup
Magazine's meritorious player
award winner in the college
division, started and tarred in
the East-West game at San Francisco and chalked  up his third
straight Middle Atlantic Conference shotput title.
He was a high draft choice of
the N.Y. Giants and was selected
to play in the American Football
Coaches Assn. All-American
game June 24 at Lubbock, Tex.,
the first Lehigh gridder so
honored.
At the flagpole ceremonies he
accepted the V. J. Pazzetti award
as Lehigh's most - outstanding
player.
Rifle wasn't the only squad
to claim a championship.
All three of the 1971 fall teams
were winners of titles. The cross
country runners took IC4A
honors. The booters took the
MAC soccer crown with a 2-1
playoff victory over Temple. The
gridders were Middle Three conference champs following
decisive triumphs over Rutgers,
35-14, and Lafayette, 49-19.
Lehigh squads started fast
during 1971-72 activity with fall
teams totaling 28 victories
against only seven losses and
a tie. The won-lost figures were
47-35-1 during the winter and
31-27 this spring.
Highlights, by seasons:
FALL, 1971
Cross      Country — Lehigh
runners enjoyed another banner
year  (10-1)  and  capped it with
a   third   straight   IC4A  college
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LEHIGH'S football team is receiving equal hilling with the likes of Nebraska and Penn State
on bs IS boards (see above) at West Point, N. Y.
Football Drills Underway
How do you replace an All-
American center, John Hill; and
an all-state fullback, Jack Rizzo?
That's the big question at
Lehigh as the Engineers, who
paraded to an 8-3 record in 1971,
get ready for the 1972 football
season.
Eighty-two candidates including 27 lettermen, after working
from May 14 through May 17,
resume spring practice May 31
and continue through June 6. The
annual spring game is 10 a.m.
June 6. They are idle now because
of semester examinations.
Hill, a high draft choice of the
N.Y. Giants, and Rizzo, who may
sign with the Giants as a free
agent, graduate next month.
Coach Fred Dunlap, anxious to
maintain the momentun generated last season, already has
made two position changes which
Easy For Engineers
One-sided triumphs in track,
golf and tennis gave Lehigh a
final 8-4 margin over Lafayette •
during 1971-72 all-sports trophy
action.
The Leopards, who never have
won this cup in its six years
of existence, could top Lehigh
only in baseball and basketball.
Trackmen clinched no worse
than a tie for the Engineers with
a crushing 104|-40| rout. The
golfers added a 406-414 edge
and the netters won, 6-3.
tOO—1. Manges (LA); 2. Rizzo (LE);
3. Clark (LE). Time: 10.0.
220—1. Owens (:A); 2. Scheib (LE);
3. Crewe 11 (LE). Time: 23.4
440—1. Koons (LE); 2. Kilroy (LE);
3. Roy (LA). Time: 50.6.
880—1. Gulash (LE); 2. Hall* (LA);
3. Langsam (LA). Time: 1:59.7.
Mile--1. Rogers (LE); 2. Strockbine
(LE); 3. Healey (LA). Time: 4:27.3.
3-mile--l. Hersch (LA); 2. Amish (LE);
3. Bond (LA). Time: 15:15.0.
120—High   Hurdles:   1.   Tarulli  (LE);
2. Albright (LA); 3. Crewell (LE). Time:
14.4.
440—Intermediate Hurdles-- 1. Hull
(LE); 2. Lange (LA); 3. Kilroy (LE).
Time: 58.9.
440 Relay—1. Lehigh (Scheib, Tarulli,
Clark, Rizzo). Time:   44.1.
Mile Relay--1. Lehigh (Stauffer, Ferrie,
Hull, Strockbine).   Time: 3:33.7.
Shot put—1. Hill (LE);  2. Pohlot (LE);
3. Derwin (LE). Distance: 50-11\.
Discus—1.   Hill   (LE);  2. Gielen (LE);
3. Resch (LE). Distance: 139-10.
Javelin—1. Nasife (LA); 2. Cush (LA);
3. Poole (LE). Distance: 176-6.
Long jump—1. Meyers (LE); 2. Roy
(LA); 3. Whitebay (LA). Distance: 20-l|.
Triple jump--l. Meyers (LE); 2. Grady
(LE);    3.   Grain   (LE).   Distance:   41-9.
High jump—1/ Spengel (LE); 2. Corbett'
(LE); 3. Meek (LE) and Weaver (LA) tie.
Height: 5-10.
Pole vault--l, Rohrbach (LE); 2. Bese-
mer (LE);  3. Kochard (LE). Height: 9-3.
LEHIGH 6,   LAFAYETTE 3
SINGLES
Larry McMains (LA) defeated Jeff
Reuben 5-7, 6-1, 6-0; Alan Wroe (LE)
defeated Chris Cooper 7-6, 6-2; Mark
Swetland (LA) defeated Bill Dethioff 7-6,
6-0; Steve Jonsson (LE) defeated Scott
Pidcock 6-1, 6-1; Jerry McClune (:E)
defeated Tim Whitlock 6-2, 6-2; Bruce
Smith (LE) defeated Hal Roach 6-2, 7-5.
DOUBLES
Reuben and Wroe defeated McMains
and Whitlock 7-5, 6-3; Cooper and Swet-
land defeated Jonsson and Dethloff 7-6,
6-7, 6-1; Caril and McClune defeated
Roach and Piccock 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
LEHIGH 4-6,   LAFAYETTE 414
LEHIGH
Al Beeken 77, Al Yurko 81, Tom Sultzer
81, John Stupp 81, Tom Sine 86.
LAFAYETTE
Bill   Frutchey  80,   Bill Scott 81, John
Ward 83,- Jay Mottola 84, Ralph Ervin 86.
he hopes will compensate for the
loss of his two big guns.
Jim Abeltin, a 6-2, 225-pound
offensive tackle from Pittsford,
N.Y., has moved back to center.
He was the regular center on
Lehigh's freshman grid squad of
1970. With him in the battle to
succeed Hill are sophomores
John Cheplick of Peckville, Pa.,
Ken Keefer of Hanover, Pa.,
Jim Randolph of Nazareth, Pa.,
and Rob Sultzer of Kennett Square
Pa.
Hoping to replace Rizzo at
fullback are lettermen Dick
Stucky of Tunkhannock, Pa., and
Bob Nixon of Carnegie, Pa.,
junior John Rhoads of Lansdale,
Pa., and two sophomores, Mike
Chieco of Manhasset, N.Y., and
Tim McDonough of South Orange,
N. J.
Stickers Triumph
Lehigh lacrossemen concluded
their season with a hard-earned
victory over Lebanon Valley, 4- 2.
Rich DeMoll, Engineer goalie,
played brilliantly in the defensive
struggle.
The summary:
LEB. VALLEY       2    0    0    0—2
LEHIGH      Ill    1—4
Lebannon Valley Goals — Gilberg,
Rowe. Assists — Bowditch.
Lehigh Goals -- Bassani, Stelljes,
Skeen, Keily. Assists — Bassani 2.