South Mountaineer Volume 14, Issue 07

              The
South Mountaineer
Published by the Lehigh University Alumni Association
VOL. 14 -NO. 71
OCTOBER 26, 197 lj
Gridmen Clinch Wiimi
Runners Rap
Three Rivals
Letterman John Heil and freshman Wayne Rogers tied for first
place Saturday as Lehigh's cross
country runners ran their winning
streak to eight with a quadrangular sweep at New York City.
The Engineers polished off
Fordham, 18-37, NYU, 21-35,and
Connecticut, 15-40, on the five-
mile Van Cortland Park course.
Heil and Rogers covered the
distance in 25:53.
Roger Jackucewicz of Lehigh
placed sixth with Jim Barnes
and Mike Strockbine in a tie for
seventh.
The summary:
1. Heil (L) and Rogers (L),
tie, 25:53; 3. DeBruin (NYU);
4. Schneider (NYU); 5. Jurgens
(F); 6. Jackucewicz (L); 7.
Barnes (L) and Strockbine (L)
tie; 9. Kelly (F); 10. Cornell
_£G). __
JACK RIZZO placekicks record-setting 25th point against
Gettysburg while other half of Lehigh's one-two ground punch,
Don Diorio, holds the ball. Engineers buried the Bullets, 50-0,
Game At A Gknce
Coach'sComment
"NYU, Fordham and Connecticut are pretty fair cross country
teams and winning that quadrangular over them has to give our
program a big boost. The team
deserves a lot of credit for the
way it's overcome the loss of
MAC champion Tim Steele to win
eight of nine meets." . . . John
Covert, cross country.
Leh
Gbg
First downs
16
16
Net yds.rushing
213
47
Net yds.passing
161
163
Total yards
374
210
Passes attempted
21
34
Completed
10
18
Intercepted by.
3
1
Punts
3
7
Avg.distance   ;!
49
39
Fumbles lost
1
6
Yds.penalized
124
45
Frosh Eleven Keeps Rolling
At East Stroudsburg, 44-8
Hard-running tailbacks Tom
Snyder and Dan Ruppert, alternating as Lehigh employed two
defensive teamsy led the way
as the Little Engineer freshman
footballers overwhelmed host
East   Stroudsburg   State,   44-8.
It was the third victory for
Coach Barry Fetter man's
charges in three starts.
Previously they whipped Rutgers
and Gettysburg.
Snyder, a high school All-
American from Rochester, N.Y.,
had his finest day with the frosh
as he carried the ball 13 times
for 153 yards. He scored on a
four-yard run in the first half
and on a 78-yard dash in the
second.
The 5-10, 185-pounder broke
three tackles near the left sideline on his long run before
shaking free in the secondary
and going all the way.
Ruppert, 5-8 and 175, turned
in his third strong game with
14 attempts for 129 yards.
Quarterbacks Earl Sheard and
Joe Alleva once again were
impressive. Sheard completed
six of eight passes for 66 yards
and one touchdown and scored
once. Alleva completed five of
10 for 88 yards. A third quarterback, Brian Sullivan, was in
action when Snyder broke loose
for his second TD. He threw
only once and had an 8-yard
completion.
Al Choinere kicked a 34-yard
field goal and four extra points.
He has had a field goal in each
game.
East Stroudsburg, trailing
44-0, averted a shutout late in
the game on a 29-yard pass play.
The scoring:
E. STRDSBG. . . 0    0    0    8-8
LEHIGH 7 13 10 14 - 44
L - Handschue 8, pass from
Sheard.  Choinere kick.
L - Snyder 4 run. Choinere
kick.
L - Thomas 1 run. Kick missed.
L - FG 34, Choinere.
L - Snyder 78 run. Choinere
kick.
L'' - Sheard 6 run. Choinere
kick.
L - Moore 3 run. Willey kick.
ES - Kearney 29, pass from
Emery.  Emery run.
Coach's Comment
"We're very pleased with this
squad, especially having the depth
to alternate two units on offense
and two on defense. Everyone's
getting a chance to play and that's
most important. We must find out
what each of these young men can
do under fire." . . . Barry
Fetterman, fr. football.
GETTYSBURG
Ends - Sinkovitz, Groves, Quay, Heppe,
Cook, Johnson, Carothers, Pearsall, Car-
ozza.
Tackles - Rock, Phillips, Hely, Bolland,
Watkins, Takash, Royal.
Guards - Schreckengaust, Sholl, Thom-
an, Tifft, Shay, Bowman, Colo, Ludes,
Hinde, Verdirame, Gonos.
Centers - Dietz, Tice.
Backs - Reese, Reda, Halll, Hayslip,
Fields, Freedman, Therrien, Sheets,
Kintzing, MacDonald, Orphanidys, Cameron.
LEHIGH
Ends - Aylsworth, Gill, Coffman, Impink, Gallo, Liedtke, LoPiano, Laws,Ron-
ca, Davis, Zielinski, Kirkwood, Rhoads,
Gielen.
Tackles - Abeltin, Mulholland,
Romanow, Benfield, Buchinski, Pohlot,
Marti, Resch, Harmatz, Johnson.
Guards - Derwin, Wells, Barth, Mc
Fillin, Johnstone, Smith, Warren, Schmitt,
Shaughnessy, Huzyak, Purdy.
Centers - Hill, Pirn, Merolla.
Backs    -    McQuilken,   Rizzo,   Diroio,
Howard,   Kail,  Jaques,  Mitravich,  Eby,
Schlegel, Trout, Emper, Nixon, Schroder,
Farrell, Bowers, Stewart, Stucky.
GETTYSBURG.   ....   0    0    0    0-0
LEHIGH  .  19    7   17 7 - 50
Leh  -  Rizzo    33,    run,    kick  failed.
Leh - Schlegel 4, pass from McQuilken,
kick failed.
Leh   -   Rizzo   2,   run,  Merolla  kick.
Leh - Barth 34, pass interception return,
Merolla kick.
Leh - FG, Merolla 31.
Leh   -   Rizzo   7,   run   Merolla   kick.
Leh - Rizzo 3, run, Rizzo kick.
Leh - Johnson 62, fumble recovery
return, Merolla kick.
RED RAIDERS NEXT
FOR ENGINEER 11
Lehigh, with its best football
team since 1961, hopes Saturday
(Oct.30) to accomplish something
no Engineer squad has done since
that   year   .   .  . beat Colgate.
Lehigh hosts the Raiders in
Taylor Stadium, site of the 1961
triumph over Colgate by a 20-15
score as the Engineers moved
toward a Lambert Cup
emblematic       of eastern:
supremacy among medium-
sized schools.
Lehigh has battled the Raiders
on fairly even terms recently but
its best effort resulted only in
a 14-14 deadlock in Bethlehem,
during 1969.
Rizzo? Rhoads Break Records
During 50-0 Rout of Gettysburg
Two records fell and two more
came within point-blank range
Saturday as Lehigh's rampaging
footballers routed Gettysburg,
50-0, before It ,600 Upperclassman Parents Day spectators in
Taylor Stadium.
The victory assured the
Engineers of their first winning
season since 1961. It also was
the first time since '61 that
Gettysburg was defeated in
Bethlehem.
Coach Fred Dunlap*s squad
(6-1) has games remaining
against Colgate, Delaware,
Bucknell and Lafayette in that
order.
The Engineers, battling for
their third Lambert Cup
symbolic of eastern gridiron
supremacy among medium-sized
schools, expect to hold second
place in,the rankings this week.
Last week they were No. 3 behind
defending champion Delaware,
and West Chester.
Delaware manhandled West
Chester on Saturday, 47-8. The
Blue Hens are ranked No. 1
nationally among college division
teams.
Fullback Jack Rizzo was the
big gun against the Bullets with
four touchdowns and a placekick
conversion for 25 points, most
ever by a Lehigh star in one
game. The previous mark of
24 was set by Dick Gabriel in
1949 and tied by Dick Doyne
(1950), Pat Clark (1960) and Jack
Coach's Comment
"I thought we had our hardest
hitting day of the season against
Gettysburg, particularly on defense. Most of those fumbles
were the result of good shots
by our defenders. They made
Gettysburg cough up the football.
Now we've got to think about
Colgate, Delaware, Bucknell
and Lafayette." . .. Fred Dunlap,
football.
Paget (1968).
Following his fourth TD he was
allowed to attempt the extra point,
and move into the record book,
and his kick was straight between
the uprights.   *
Sophomore end John Rhoads
provided Saturday's second new
mark when he boomed an
87-yard punt from the Engineers'
8-yard line to the Gettysburg
5-yard stripe. The old record
was 86 yards by Steve Smoke
in 1940 against Hampden-Sydney.
Rhoads' punt was a cloud-
threatening spiral which orbited
far over the heads of all
defenders, landed about the
20-yard line and bounced to the
five before being retrieved.
Records which probably will
fall next weekend against Colgate,
in Taylor Stadium, are for yards
passing one season- -(1,244- by-
Rick Laubach in 1967) and team
yards passing one season
(1,454 in 1968).
Sophomore quarterback Kim
McQuilken already has picked
up 1,227 yards in the air and the
team has a total of 1,434.
McQuilken completed nine of 17
attempts for 144 yards and a
touchdown   against  the  Bullets.
Rizzo averaged almost 10
yards a try on the ground, carrying the ball 13 times for 127
yards to collect his quartet of
touchdowns.
Dunlap, who had a game taken
away from him two years ago by
Gettysburg here, 26-24 after
leading 24-6 with only five
minutes left to play, took no
chances Saturday. Most of the
starters remained in action until
the three-quarter mark when
Lehigh   had   a  43-0  advantage.
The Engineers were opportunists, pouncing upon six
Bullet fumbles and intercepting
three passes, and turning almost
all of these chances into points.
At the start of the game Billy
(Conitnued on Page 2)
Channel 39-TV Adds Colgate,
Lehigh Game To Fall Schedule
Lehigh's major football
attraction against Colgate, in
Taylor Stadium on Saturday
afternoon, has been added to the
fall television schedule.
According to an announcement
today by Sam Connor, director of
public information at the
University, the game will be
taped by WLVT (Channel 39)
for showing Sunday, Oct. 31, at
1 p.m.
Contests against C.W. Post and
Drexel already have been
featured by Channel 39 this
season and the 107th game against
Lafayette on Nov. 20 also will
be seen over the local TV outlet.
Shel Siegel will handle the play
by play assisted by Dave Leonard,
sports information director at
Colgate, and Connor.
In addition to the Channel 39
showing Sunday, at 1 p.m., the
tape will be featured over WSKG,
Channel 46 of Binghamton, N.Y.,
one week later (Sunday, Nov. 7)
at 4:30 p.m. It also may appear
on WCNY, Channel 24, of Syracuse, N.Y., if arrangements for
a presentation can be completed.
WVIA, Channel 44 of Scranton,
Pa., which features many Lehigh
programs originated by Channel
39,   also may show the  game.