South Mountaineer Volume 16, Issue 17

              Vol. 16 — No. 17
JANUARY 29, 1973
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Grapplers Grab Piece of The Rock
Cagers Bow
In Thriller
At Bucknell
Lehigh's top effort of the
basketball season resulted in a
heartbreaking defeat at
Bucknell, 56-55, despite a 26-20
advantage in field goals for the
winless Engineers.
Coach Tom Pugliese's squad
was awarded only three foul
shots, making them all, while the
host Bisons converted 16 of 21.
Earlier in the week the
Engineers traveled to Hamilton,
N. Y., put in another good first
half, but eventually were beaten
by Colgate, 73-49. The Raiders led
only 28-26 at the intermission.
Freshman Doug Kistler netted
12 points and 11 rebounds at
Bucknell, George Belfield contributed 14 tallies and Norm
Liedtke had Lh—
Lehigh, down 24-20 at halftime,
slowly pulled into a 43-37 lead
before the Bisons retaliated with
a 10-point string to again move
ahead.
It was 56-49, Bucknell, with
slightly more than a minute
remaining when Belfield sank a
field goal and Liedtke converted
a pair of rare free throw chances.
Gene Brown added another field
goal just before the final buzzer.
1   The scoring:
LEHIGH (49)
C Brown 11, Price 10, Milligan 6, Lynam 0,
Liedtke 0, G. Brown 2, Belfield 0, Mullaney 0,
Lambert 2, Kistler 4, Brandenburg 0, Zambo
12, Zaiac 0.
COLGATE (73)
Banks 16, Tyburski 6, Russell IE
Williams 0, Chelsey 4, Good 6,
Carter 6, Mitchell 5, O'Brien 2.
Halftime: Colgate, 28-26.
. Harris 4,
Adams 6,
LEHIGH (55)
G. Brown 2, Belfield 14, Liedtke 11,
Lambert 0, Price 8, Kistler 12, Brandenburg
0, C Brown 8.
BUCKNELL (56)
McLean 12, Oristaglio 4, Gravely 5, Kerr
20, Garrett 9, Novacek 6, Burke 0.
Halftime:  Bucknell, 24-20.
Coeds Lose
Lehigh dropped decisions in
girls' swimming to Centenary, 57-
29, and Bloomsburg State, 54-32.
Ginny Thompson set a pool
record winning the 50-yard
breaststroke and a team mark
taking the 50-yard freestyle.
ROD GARDNER, left, of Maple wood, N. J., accepts congratulations from Director of Athletics Bill
Leckonby upon being named winner of the first V. J. (Pat) Pazzetti Football Endowment Award at
Lehigh University. Looking on, center, is Engineer head coach Fred Dunlap.
New Pat Pazzetti Football Award
Goes To Freshman Rod Gardner
The V. J. (Pat) Pazzetti
Football Award has been
established at Lehigh through an
endowment from Mrs. Miriam
Pazzetti, widow of the late All-
American quarterback.
Pat Pazzetti, a member of the
Class of 1915 at Lehigh, was inducted into the National Football
Foundation Hall of Fame in 1961.
Mrs. Pazzetti, a resident of
Bethlehem, made the award
possible with a gift to the New
Century Fund, Lehigh's current
10-year development campaign.
She stipulated that the monetary
prize be given to a football player
of outstanding ability.
The winner shall be determined
by the University's Awards and
Prizes Committee, made up of
faculty and administrative
personnel, upon recommendation
from the director of athletics and
the head football coach.
This committee administers
prestigious prizes and awards
given to students who excel in
academic performance and-or
extracurricular activities.
It was announced, along with
news of the award's establishment, that the first winner is
freshman tailback Rod Gardner
of Maplewood, N. J., Eastern
College Athletic Conference
Rookie of the Year for Division 2
Mermen Drop N.Y. Meet
Fordham yielded only the
diving event in trimming
Lehigh's swimmers, 72-39, at
New York. Jim Brobson of the
Engineers took the one-meter
event followed by teammate Joel
Manfredo.
The summary:
FORDHAM 72, LEH IGH 39
400 Medley Relay—1. Fordham (Liorada,
Kelly, Felice, Sullivan). Time: 3:48.5.
1000 Freestyle — 1. Macht (F); 2. Reiff
(F); 3. Ferris (L). Time: 10:17.3.
200 Freestyle — 1. Kalssane (F); 2.
Stephens (L); 3. Lefevere (L). Time: 1:52.8.
500 Freestyle — 1.  Cichanowicz  (F); 2.
Kelly (F); 3. Koester (L). Time:  :22.1.
200 Individual Medley — 1. Kaissane (F);
2. Dilger  (L);  3.  Handerham  (L).  Time:
2:09.5.
200 Butterfly — 1. Felice (F); 2. Folsom
(L); 3. Bruer (L). Time: 2:03.7.
100 Freestyle — 1. Cichanowicz (F); 2.
Kelly (F); 2. Koester (L). Time: :48.
200 Backstroke — 1. Macht (F); 2. Hot-
chkiss (L); 3. Liorada (F). Time: 2:08.
500 Freestyle —1. Reiff (F); 2. Macht (F);
3. Hoffman (L). Time: 5:05.2.
200 Breaststroke—1. Kelly (F); 2. Roth
(L); 3. Handerhan (L). Time: 2:19.7.
400 Freestyle Relay —1. Fordham (Felice,
Cichanowicz, Reiff, Kalssane). Time: 3:28.
Diving — 1. Brobson (L), 2. Manfredo (L).
(required) points: 127.65.
Diving — 1. Manfredo (L); 2. Brobson (L).
(optional) points: 128.90.
Frick Out
Mike Frick, Lehigh
lightweight wrestling star
from Hamburg, N. J., has
withdrawn from the NCAA
East-West All-Star meet
Feb. 4 at Oklahoma State.
He has had trouble all
winter with fatigue and a
blood test late last week
didn't disclose as much
improvement as had been
anticipated. He has undergone other blood tests
during the season.
His coach, Thad Turner,
notified all-star meet officials of the decision to
withdraw the Engineer
sophomore who earlier had
accepted an invitation to
represent the East at 126
pounds.
during the 1973 season.
V. J. (Pat) Pazzetti, after
whom the award is named, enjoyed lifetime recognition as a
superb athlete and gentleman.
He played during an era
largely dominated by Ivy League
teams but in 1912 he focused
attention on Lehigh as he
quarterbacked the Engineers to
nine victories in 11 games, the
only losses coming at the hands of
Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle
Indians, and Princeton.
A consensus All-American
backfield that season, compiled
by Louis A. Douglas of The
Washington Post, placed Pazzetti
at quarterback, Charley Brickley
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Lehigh Rally
Turns Back
SR, 20-15
A 33-8 romp at Cornell, followed
by a come-from-behind victory at
Slippery Rock, 20-15, last week
extended Lehigh's wrestling win
streak through five meets.
Coach Thad Turner's squad
(10-5) faces one of its major tests
of the season Saturday afternoon
against Navy at Annapolis, Md.,
before returning to Grace Hall
for successive duals against
Bucknell, Army, Penn State and
Columbia.
Slippery Rock, one of the
strongest teams in the Pennsylvania State College Conference and winner of 68 of its last
74 meets before hosting Lehigh,
had 2,000 fans on hand to see the
Rockets collide with the
Engineers.
Coach Fred Powell's grapplers
were "up" for the test and it took
a brilliant effort by Lehigh's
heavier men to pull out the
verdict.
The Rockets led 13-6 after
winning four of the first six bouts
before Barry Dixon (167), Terry
DeStito (177), Don McCorkel
(190) and George Barkanic
(heavyweight) slamed the door
on their upset hopes.
DeStito, of Enola, Pa., had the
big win, a 3:17 fall over Jeff Lutz
which catapulted Lehigh into its
first lead of the afternoon, 15-13.
Dixon, of DuBois, Pa., had
moved his team into close range
with a 6-4 edge over Randy
Loudon.
McCorkel, a PIAA champ last
season at Hershey, Pa., High
School, contributed a 5-5 draw
against favored Bill Shuffstall.
Barkanic, needing a win or a
draw to safeguard the meet
victory, enjoyed a 70-pound
weight advantage over Dennis
Fenton and moved to a 4-1
margin.
Fenton, warily staying away
from the- 250-pound Engineer,
took only one shot. This came
near the end of the bout with the
score 1-1 and Barkanic having
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Skaters Rip Lafayette, 7-1
Lou Bericzi's hat trick
spearheaded Lehigh's hockey
team to a 7-1 rout of Lafayette at
the Ice Palace, Allentown, as the
Engineers' seasonal record was
lifted to 2-1-1.
Coach Toot Cahoon's squad
earlier edged Penn State, 4-3,
after a 2-2 tie, and bowed to
visiting Elmira College, 11-1.
Lehigh spotted Lafayette a 1-0
lead before crushing the
Leopards with three goals in the
second period and three more in
the third.
Winning goalie Pete Bechtel
picked up a rare assist when he
fed the puck to Neil Berquist for a
25-foot score.
The summaries:
Lafayette 1      0      0—1
Lehigh 1       3       3—7
Lafayette goal: Lane. Assist: Munson,
Roscoe.
Lehigh goals: Bericzi 3, Dale, Frey,
Berguist, Hansen. Assists: Cookingham 2,
Cummings 2, Hansen, Renaldi, Ludlum,
Bechtel, Benoit, Frey.
Elmira  .....2       4       5—11
Lehigh 1       0       0— 1
Elmira goals: Barton 3, Murphy 2, Smith
2, Roche, Coyle, Anderson, Loughrey.
Assists: Murphy 3, Loughrey 3, Barton 2,
Roche, Griffith, Smith, Scalla, Anderson.
Lehigh goal: Grady. Assists: Dale,
Rinaldi.