South Mountaineer Volume 16, Issue 10

              Vol. 16 — No. 10
Still No. 1
NOVEMBER 13, 1973
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Lehigh Rips Rochester 42-0,
Hosts Lafayette 11 Saturday-
headers
Collecting six of a possible
eight first place votes, Lehigh
strengthened its Lambert Cup
lead this week as defending
champion Delaware climbed past
Amherst into the runnerup slot.
Amherst (7-0) whipped Trinity,
40-0, while Delaware got past
Maine, 28-12, and Lehigh rapped
Rochester, 42-0.
Lafayette is 6th in the poll and
Bucknell 10th.
The standings:
1. LEHIGH 6-3-1 78
2. Delaware7-3 70
3. Amherst7-0 -..66
4.Bridgeport8-l  56
5. Central Conn. 8-1 48
6. Lafayette 6-2-1 39
7.Middlebury7-l 31
8. A.I.C. 5-4  23
9. Coast Guard 7-2 18
10. Bucknell 3-3-2 6
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Stage Set For 109th Game
BILL SCHLEGEL after catching
one of the eight passes which
enabled him to set two Lehigh
records against Rochester. He
has 62 receptions for the season
and 133 during his varsity career.
Frosh End Perfect Season
Tailback Kenny Schmidt, of
Stamford, Conn., scored on runs
of 4, 17 and 26 yards last Friday
as Lehigh's freshman football
team routed Lafayette at Fisher
Field, 34-0.
The romp completed the first
perfect season for an Engineer
frosh squad (5-0-0). Jeep Bed-
narik, in his initial year as coach,
directed the team.
Schmidt, a 5-10, 185-pound
runner, scored 10 touchdowns in
the five-game schedule.
Previously he led the way to
victories over Rutgers, Gettysburg, East Stroudsburg and
Bucknell.
Lehigh ran up a 28-0 halftime
margin on the Leopard Cubs and
coasted the rest of the way. Schmidt burst through center on his
26-yard touchdown sprint to open
the scoring and Tom Haynes
rambled 23 yards for the second
after a fumble recovery.
Schmidt,    shaking    tacklers,
broke loose on his 17-yard TD
jaunt in the second quarter and
before halftime quarterback
Paul Kershaw passed 33 yards to
Dave Kazarsky for another six-
pointer. Schmidt bulled his way
four yards for touchdown No. 4 in
the third stanza.
Kershaw completed eight of 11
passes for 124 yards. Lehigh
gained 228 yards rushing, 158 of
them by Schmidt. Bruce Crystal
contributed four extra point
conversions.
Leh. Fr 14   14   6   0—34
Laf.Fr 0    0   0   0—0
Leh—Schmidt   26   run.   Crystal
kick.
Leh—Haynes   23   run.    Crystal
kick.
Leh—Schmidt   17   run.   Crystal
kick.
Leh—Kazarsky   33   pass   from
Kershaw. Crystal kick.
Leh—Schmidt 4 run. Kick failed.
Lehigh, safely past a stubborn
Rochester club, turned its full
attention to Lafayette this week
and Saturday's 109th game in
football's   most-played   rivalry.
The Engineers (6-3-1) and
Leopards (6-2-1) clash in Taylor
Stadium at 1:30 p.m. Lehigh has
clinched its second winning
season in the last three years.
Rochester, aided by adverse
weather conditions, put on a
much more difficult show than
the final 42-0 score would indicate. The Yellowjackets
weren't knocked out of contention
until the Engineers laid 28 points
on them during the fourth
quarter.
A determined defensive effort,
led by linebacker Roger McFillin
and featuring two fumble
recoveries and three pass interceptions, highlighted
Engineer activities until the dam
finally broke in the final quarter.
Each team was guilty of five
turnovers in a game played
during 26-degree weather with a
steady wind which gusted up to 30
miles an hour on occasion and
produced a chill factor of five to
10 degrees below zero.
A Homecoming Day turnout,
announced at 2,500, shivered and
shook along with the gridmen.
Lehigh scored the first time it
had the ball, moving 57 yards in
nine plays. There was only one
aerial, Kim McQuilken firing the
last five yards to fullback Tim
McDonough of South Orange, N.
J., for the touchdown. Freshman
tailback Rod Gardner, of
Maplewood, N. J., chipped in
with a 33-yard run.
Halfway through the second
period the Engineers made it 14-0
with a 51-yard drive taking seven
plays. McQuilken's 34-yard aerial
to tight end Bill Schlegel, of Troy,
N.   Y.,   highlighted  this  surge.
Gardner carried the final six
yards for the TD.
This was one of eight passes
Schlegel snagged despite the
chilling weather conditions, for
121 yards and two Lehigh
records. He reached 62 catches
for the season, topping his own
standard of 59 set last year, and
133 for his varsity career to better
a mark of 132 established by Rich
Miller from 1965 through 1967.
An 88-yard march, starting late
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in the third quarter and ending
early in the fourth, helped pull
the props from under Rochester's
gritty effort. Gardner's 18-yard
dash opened this drive,
McQuilken pitched 16 yards to
Schlegel to keep it moving and
freshman wingback Glenn
Willard, of Yardley, Pa., turned
in one of the greatest catches of
the season to put the Engineers
deep in Rochester territory.
Coming immediately after a 15-
yard penalty, the play ate up 42
yards to the Yellowjacket 16.
Willard, racing behind the
defense, got his hands on a
deflection, juggled the ball while
tumbling to the ground and
managed to hold it.
Lehigh's G-man running
combination, Gardner and
sophomore fullback Jim
Gallagher of Reading, Pa., did
the rest. They split the 16 yards
evenly with Gallagher  plowing
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Game At A Glance
Leh Roch
First downs 24 11
Net yds. rush 191 56
Net yds. pass 325 116
Total yards 516 172
Passes attempted 38 30
Completed 22 8
Intercepted by 3 2
Punts 4 7
Avg. distance 16 29
Fumbles lost 3 2
Yds. penalized 49 20
Passing                  att   com yds
McQuilken,L 33   18 281
Pasley,R  25    8 116
Alleva,L 5     4 44
Receiving                   no yds td
Schlegel.L 8 121 0
Callihan.R 5 84 0
Handschue.L  5 80 1
Heffernan,R 3 32 0
Rushing att   yds
Gardner ,L  26   135
Pasley.R 8     26
Hoffman,R 20     23
Heagany.R 7     20
avg
5.1
3.2
1.1
2.8
Score by quarters:
Rochester 0   0   0     0—0
Lehigh 7    7   0   28—42
L—McDonough   5   pass   from
McQuilken. Mancosh kick.
L—Gardner 6 run. Mancosh kick.
L—Gallagher   2   run.   Mancosh
kick.
L—Gardner    10    pass    from
McQuilken. Mancosh kick.
L—Handschue  41   pass   from
McQuilken. Mancosh kick.
L—Farrell 2 run. Mancosh kick.
Attendance—2,500.
Harriers Share Conference Championship
Lehigh's cross country runners
avenged a surprise dual meet
loss to Bucknell last Monday by
tieing the Bisons for first place in
the 1973 Middle Atlantic Conference championships at
Philadelphia.
It was the fifth time in the last
six years that Lehigh either won
the crown or tied for the top spot.
Wayne Rogers, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., paced the
Engineers with a second-place
finish   in   25:50   behind   winner
Gary Cohen of American
University who covered the
course in 25:27.8. Elliot Michael,
of Chappaqua, N.Y., gave Lehigh
fourth place in 26:11.
Bucknell and Lehigh both were
charged with 56 points followed
by American 73, West Chester
131, LaSalle 133, Gettysburg 154,
Temple 180, Lafayette 192, St.
Joseph's 197, Delaware 275,
Drexel 281 and Rider (no score
submitted).
Strong   finishes   by   Stellan
Thoren, of Sweden, and Mickey
Yardis of Chappaqua, N.Y.,
enabled Lehigh to get its share of
the crown. Both passed Bucknell
runners in the stretch, Thoren
placing ninth and Yardis 16th.