South Mountaineer Volume 15, Issue 03

              Published by the Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 15 — No. 3
SEPTEMBER 26, 1972
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Rutgers Shatters Engineer Streak
LEHIGH'S BOB HANDSCHUE, a wide receiver who doubles as a kickoff and punt return man, slips
past a Rutgers defender. In background is teammate Mike Bowers.
Soccer Team    Game At A Glance
Faces Mules
Lehigh University's defending
Middle Atlantic Conference
university division soccer
champions make their seasonal
debut Wednesday, Sept. 27,
against Muhlenberg College in
Allentown at 3 p.m.
The Engineers, coached by
Tom Fleck, took MAC west
honors last year and downed
MAC east winner Temple in a
title playoff, 2-1. They'll take a
six-game carryover winning
streak against the Mules.
Muhlenberg battled Lehigh to a
1-1 draw early last season and the
Engineers hope to do better
against them this year. Lehigh
had its "winningest" season ever
in 1971 with a 10-3-1 mark.
Four other events, all Saturday
attractions, are on the week's
schedule. The only home test
finds Lehigh's footballers hosting
Vermont in Taylor Stadium at
1:30 p.m.
Leh
Rutg
First downs
15
21
Net yds rushing
61
211
Net yds passing
216
126
Total Yards
277
337
Passes attmp'td
32
25
Completed
18
12
Intercepted by
1
3
Punts
6
6
Avg distance
34
34
Fumbles lost
1
0
Yds penalized
46
53
Individual Leaders
Rushing                 Att Yds Avg
Jennings,Rut         26 117 4.5
Shycko,Rut.           13 63 4.8
Stewart,Leh.         16 51 3.1
Passing     Att  Comp   Yds TD Int
McQ'n,Leh 32      18      216    1    3
Gas'a,Rug. 21      11      112      11
Receiving Caught  Yds   TD
Schlegel,Leh. 8       144       0
Carney,Rut. 8        91       1
RUTGERS
Ends - Carney, Christoff, Sweeney,
Hall, Lipscomb, Malloney, Pesce, Dillard,
Malinak, Mannon, Barrett.
Tackles - Morton, Spencer, Davis, Turner, Allen, Benante, Miller, Brown.
Guards - Tighe, Rineheimer, Juzwiak,
Sipos.
Centers - Lapkowicz, Montigney, Kersey, Bryan.
Linebackers - Mazer, Witkowski,
Zukas, Krasnavage, Session, Davies.
Backs - Gasienica, Jennings, Salemi,
Miller, Pawlick, Smolyn, Oldt, Piccirillo,
Shycko, Carlucci, Yacaginsky, Farkas,
Boone, Bolash.
LEHIGH
Ends - Liedtke, Schlegel, Coffman,
Maddox, Lechner, Handschue, Piel, L.
Johnson.
Tackles - Resch, Mulholland, Pohlot,
Benfield, Willey, C. Johnson, Marti.
Guards - Derwin, Cheplick, Purdy,
Bigach.
Centers   -   Abeltin,  Merolla,  Sultzer.
Linebackers - C. Smith, McFillin, Warren, Barth, Von Bergen, Gift, Probst,
Emper.
Backs - McQuilken, Rhoads, Stewart,
Howard, Kail, Bowers, Mitravich, Farrell,
Mullane, Sheard, Addonizio, McDonough,
Alleva, Chieco.
RUTGERS 7    14    7    13-41
LEHIGH 0    7     0      6-13'
Rut—Jennings 3 run. Pesce kick.
Rut--Jennings 1 run. Pesce kick.
Leh--Stewart 3 run. Merolla kick.
Rut--Gasienica 1 run. Pesce kick.
Rut—Carney 13 pass from Gasienica.
Pesce kick.
Rut--FG 33 Pesce.
Rut—FG 37 Pesce.
Leh--Rhoads 5 pass from McQuilken.
Run failed.
Rut--Bolash 1 run. Pesce kick.
Att. — 11,000
Runners In Title Form
.. Four Lehigh runners tied for
first place and two others
followed them across the finish
line Saturday as Coach John
Covert's powerful IC4A college
division cross country champions
opened their season shutting out
Delaware and Rider at Trenton,
N.J.
They prevailed 15—48 over the
Blue Hens and 15—50 over the
Broncos. Low score wins in cross
country and a minimum total of
15 is a whitewashing.
Two-time Middle Atlantic Conference king Tim Steele of
Denville, N.J., returning after
missing 1971 action because of an
ankle bone infection, was among
the winners.
Joining him were sophomores
Jim Barnes, also of Denville, and
Wayne Rogers of Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., and freshman Rick Bourie
of Springfield, Mass. They
covered the 5-mile route in
26:32.5. Bourie was last year's
Massachusetts and New England
scholastic champion.
Coach's Comment
"I was pleased with our
showing against Rider and Delaware. Now we must wait and see
how consistently we perform as
the season progresses. Penn and
LaSalle are next and Penn
always has managed to hurt us.".
. . .John Covert, cross country.
Close behind them at the finish
line were freshmen Dave Cope of
Fogelsville, Pa., with a time of
26:41, and Brian Faraci of
Haverstraw, N.Y., with 26:42.
Faraci, from Fordham Prep, was
the 1971 N.Y. state catholic school
champion.
Rick Whaley, of Delaware, was
the first rival to finish. He placed
seventh. The Blue Hens topped
Rider in the team battle, 18—42.
The summary	
1. Steele, Rogers, Barnes,
Bourie (L) (tied) 26:32.5; 5. Cope
(L); 6. Faraci (L); 7. Whaley
(d); 8. Mueller (D); 9. Michael
(L); 10. Pasquini (L); 11.
Teasdale (L); 12. Barker (R); 13.
Strosny (D); 14. Simpson (D); 15.
Hunt (G).
Tops Lehigh For First Time
In Four Years; Stewart,
Rhoads Get Touchdowns
Rutgers, stung by three
straight defeats at the hands of
underdog Lehigh elevens, turned
on the Engineers witha vengeance
Saturday at New Brunswick, N.
J., registering a 41-13 victory
before 11,000 fans.
The Scarlet Knights (1-1) had
things their own way as the
Engineers (1-2) were unable to
get untracked offensively or
defensively.
Jim Jennings, a hard-running
210-pound tailback, led the winners with 26 carries for
117 yards and two touchdowns.
Quarterback Leo Gasienica
completed 11 of 21 passes for
112 yards, threw for one TD
and plunged for another. Split
end Bob Carney caught eight
of those tosses for 91 yards
and the touchdown, and kicking
specialist John Pesce booted four
extra points and field goals of
33 and 37 yards.
While these Knights spearheaded the effort, the entire
Rutgers team joined in to fashion
a sound, well-balanced attack
and a swarming, aggressive
defense.
Lehigh, coming off strong
games against Hofstra and Delaware, simply appeared to go flat.
It was the Engineers' least
impressive showing since a stunning 6-0 shutout at the hands of
Drexel midway through the 1970
campaign.
The Engineers did manage to
keep an odd string alive. Since
the Drexel blanking they have
scored in double figures during
19 straight contests. The string
remained as quarterback Kim
McQuilken of Allentown, Pa.,
passed five yards to fullback John
Rhoads of Lansdale, Pa., for a
touchdown with 2:58 remaining
in the game.
Tailback Bob Stewart, also of
Lansdale, had darted three yards
for an earlier Lehigh touchdown
late in the second quarter.
McQuilken, although sharp at
times, ran into difficulty more
often than usual but still managed
to emerge with 18 completions in
32 aerial attempts for 216 yards
and the TD pitch to Rhoads. He
was intercepted three times,
however, and caught three times
behind the line for minus 35
yards.
Tight end Bill Schlegel, of
Troy, N. Y., continued his
brilliant early-season receiving
with eight catches for 144 yards.
Several of them were torn away
Coach's Comment
"We're trying to forget the
Rutgers game and get on with the
schedule. Everyone's pretty
disappointed but there are eight
still to play. Right now we're
concentrating on Vermont.". .
.Fred Dunlap, football.
from defenders draped around
his shoulders. Split end Norman
Liedtke, of Verona, N.J., grabbed
three for 38 yards.
The third, of Rutgers* five
touchdowns, was the most
demoralizing. It came just before
the end of the first half after
Lehigh had struggled 61 yards to
get on the board with Stewart's
running leading the way along
with McQuilken passes to
Schlegel good for 12and 20 yards.
When Stewart tallied from the
three with only 2:43 left, and
Chuck Merolla of Pen Argyl,
Pa., added the conversion, it
looked as if the Engineers would
take only a 14-7 deficit into the
locker roon at halftime.
Rutgers struck back quickly,
however, taking the ensuing kick-
off and moving 65 yards in seven
attempts for 21 -7"TOlgeT~Jennings gained some yardage on
the ground but it was Gasienica
who struck the crushing blows
with passes of 10 yards to Carney,
five yards to Larry Christoff and
a 37-yard bomb to Carney who
got behind the deep defenders
for a catch at the one. Basienica
plowed over with only 3 2 seconds
(Continued on Page 2)
Vermont 11
Next Rival
Lehigh University's football
forces, after two rugged road
tests, return to Taylor Stadium
Saturday, Sept. 30, to host
Vermont at 1:30 p.m.
It'll be only the second meeting
of the teams, who clashed last
year at Burlington, Vt., with
Lehigh piling up a 49—8 margin.
For Carl Falivene, new head
coach of the Catamounts, it will
be his baptism of fire against the
Engineers. He was line boss at
Vermont last season under Joe
Scannella, a Lehigh alumnus who
resigned the Vermont head
coaching job to become an
assistant with the Oakland
Raiders.
Falivene is a 1950 graduate of
Syracuse who has coached in
high school and collegiate circles
for 20 years. He was an assistant
at Hofstra and Williams before
moving to Vermont in 1971.
Fred Dunlap, Colgate '50, is in
his eighth year as head coach at
Lehigh. He formerly served at his
alma mater, at Buffalo and at
Cornell. In 1971 he produced the
highest-scoring team in 88 years
of Lehigh football as the Engineers rolled up 362 points during
an 8-3 campaign.
Vermont is the final test for
Lehigh before the Engineers face
Army Saturday, Oct. 7, at West
Point, N.Y.