South Mountaineer Volume 16, Issue 15

              Vol. 16 — No. 15
JANUARY 15, 1974
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Weekend Quad Next For Matmen
ARCHITECT'S MODEL of the arena, a major portion of Lehigh University's planned $6,000,000 Athletic and Convocation Center.
Approval Of ACC Plans, 113-87-1 Record,
Trophy Domination Were Year's Highlights
Formal approval of plans for a
$6-million Athletic and Convocation Center, located on the
Saucon Valley Fields, highlighted
the sports scene in 1973 at Lehigh.
It was a big year for the
Engineers.
Lehigh had 10 winning teams in
13 varsity sports, totaling 113
victories against 87 losses and
one tie, and continued its
domination of arch-rival
Lafayette in the 7th annual All-
Sports Trophy series.
Individually the top men were
baseball star Frank Zawatski,
winner of four awards at last
spring's Student Recognition
Day, and All-American football
quarterback Kim McQuilken who
guided the Engineers to a share
of their first Lambert Cup since
1961.
Zawatski, an honor student in
the   Engineering   college,   was
graduated last May and drafted
by the San Francisco Giants
organization. The slugging
catcher played for Amarillo on
the Texas League last summer
and then went into a winter instructional circuit.
McQuilken was the nation's
leading college division passer
and a first-team choice on All-
American elevens selected by
Associated Press and the
American Football Coaches
Assn. He was selected to play in
the annual North-South Shrine
Game at Miami on Christmas
night but suffered a minor knee
injury during the second quarter
and was sidelined for the balance
of the contest.
Approval of the new athletic
and convocation center was part
of the first phase of Lehigh's
current 10-year, $67-million New
Century Fund drive which also
Cagers Lose To Drexel
Drexel handed Lehigh's
basketballers a 73-41 setback
Jan. 10 in Philadelphia with four
of the Dragons scoring double-
figure totals.
Freshman Bill Milligan of
Ransey, N.J., a 6-5 forward
seeing his first heavy duty
following a broken finger in preseason practice, paced the
Engineers with 11 points.
Coach Tom Pugliese, continuing his policy of playing a
predominantly freshman lineup,
found his team performing well
in the early going.
Drexel (6-4) led only by a
basket with 1:05 remaining in the
first half before Mike Kernan
entered the game and sank three
fast field goals which triggered a
sudden outburst and gave the
host squad a 35-23 advantage at
the intermission.
LEHIGH (41)
Lynam 2, Liedtke 6, Price 0, Kistler 4,
C.Brown 8, Zambo 6, Milligan 11, Packer 2,
Brandenburg 2, G.Brown 0, Lambert 0,
Belfield 0.
DREXELI73)
Newman 15, Fegans 14, Parks 3,
Romanczuk 11, KrowekO, White 6, Ambler 4,
Brophy 2, Kernan 10, Courlies 4, Thompson
4.
Halftime:  Drexel, 35-23.
will     include     a     $7-million
chemistry complex.
For the athletic and convocation center Lehigh's board of
trustees approved a two-building
concept, a 75,000-square foot
arena and a 60,000-square foot
field house. The arena will have a
seating capacity of between 6,000
and 7,000 for major events,
graduation exercises, alumni
reunions and intercollegiate
spectator sports such as
basketball and wrestling. It also
will be made available for major
non-Lehigh programs, conventions, and other mass activities.
The field house will include an
indoor track and accommodations for basketball,
volleyball, tennis and badminton,
and for indoor baseball, football,
lacrosse and soccer practice.
Women's sports, directed by
Helen Bond, got off the ground
with field hockey, swimming and
tennis teams in action for the first
time.
The All-Sports Trophy series
against Lafayette found Lehigh
posting a 7-4 margin. This award
was established by the student
governing bodies of the neighboring rivals in 1967 and Lehigh
won all six other years. Only
regularly-scheduled varsity dual
events count in the standings.
Lehigh's margin of superiority
over the Leopards has climbed to
52-33 since the first race in 1967
won by an 8-5 tally.
Zawatski was the individual
star at Student Recognition Day
(Flagpole Day) festivities as
Lehigh's top athlete and winner
of the annual ECAC award for
academic and athletic accomplishment, and freshman
laurels went to wrestler Mike
Frick who won eastern honors at
118 pounds and became the first
frosh ace ever voted Most Outstanding in an EIWA tournament.
Fall teams were the most
successful with a 25-11-1 record.
Winter squads were 47-41 and
soring units finished 41-35.
Season
Records
VARSITY SPORTS
WINTER'72'73               W L T
Rifle 12 2 0
Wrestling 13 6 0
Swimming 6 5 0
Hockey 8 11 0
Basketball 8 17 0
SPRING 1973                    W L T
Lacrosse 8 4 0
Baseball 16 14 0
Tennis 6 5 0
Golf  9 8 0
Track 2 4 0
FALL 1973                         W L T
Cross Country 10 3 0
Football+  7 3 1
Soccer 8 5 0
Totals  113 87   1
+Excluding post-season playoff
loss to Western Kentucky, 25-16.
DeStito Top
Man During
Recent Trip
Returning to the friendly
confines of Grace Hall for the
first time in more than a month
and a half, Lehigh wrestlers (5-5)
hope to climb above the .500 mark
this weekend (Jan 18-19) during a
quadrangular against Oregon
State, Indiana State of Terre
Haute, Ind., and Pittsburgh.
The Engineers' only previous
appearance on their home mat
was in the season's opener Dec. 1
against Wilkes, a 22-15 triumph.
They have wrestled nine straight
meets away from home.
Five of those clashes took place
Jan. 5-12 during a rugged trip
highlighted by Lehigh's first
invasion of the west coast. Coach
Thad Turner's young squad
dropped a hard-fought decision to
Cal Poly's defending college
division national champions at
San Luis Obispo, 17-14, opening
the junket.
They retaliated with victories
over the University of Arizona at
Tucson, 32-10, and Southern
Illinois at Carbondale, 111., 22-16,
before bowing against the
University of Iowa at Cedar
Rapids, 25-9, and Iowa State's
defending NCAA kingpins at
Ames, 20-14.
The return to Grace Hall will be
welcomed by Turner and Co.
Competition in the quad will be
conducted simultaneously on two
mats beginning 7:30 p.m. Friday
when Lehigh faces Pittsburgh
and Oregon State tackles Indiana
State. WLVT-TV, Channel 39 of
Bethlehem, will telecast the
Lehigh-Pitt meet for delayed
viewing.
Saturday, at 2:30 p.m., Lehigh
meets Oregon State while Pittsburgh is battling Indiana State.
At 8 o'clock that night the
Engineers host Indiana State and
Pitt tests Oregon State.
The Saturday afternoon pairing
is a super rematch of a meet at
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TERRY DeSTITO