South Mountaineer Volume 18, Issue 12

              Matmen Launching '75-76 Season
Gridders Eliminated From Playoffs
UNH Takes
35-21 Thriller
Rugged New Hampshire,
making the big plays offensively
and defensively, broke open a
tight game with three touchdowns in the final period last
Saturday to defeat Lehigh in the
first round of the NCAA Div II
football playoffs, 35-21.
A crowd of 9,100 watched a
gruelling, exciting contest in
unseasonably perfect gridiron
weather in Taylor Stadium. It
was the Engineers' only loss
there all year. Previously they
had knocked over Millersville,
Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Maine,
Colgate and Lafayette in home
duels.
In other Div. n opening round
action Western Kentucky nipped
Northern Iowa, 14-12, Livingston,
Ala., University stunned North
Dakota, 34-14, and Northern
Michigan toppled Boise State, 24-
21.
New Hampshire and Western
Kentucky clash Saturday in the
Rice Bowl at Baton Rouge, La.,
while Livingston and Northern
Michigan meet in the Pioneer
Bowl at Wichita Falls, Tex.
The division's national
championship finale is Dec. 13 in
the Camellia Bowl at
Sacramento, Calif.
Major contributors to the UNH
triumph, offensively, were
tailback Bill Burnham who
carried the ball 34 times for 163
yards and two touchdowns, and
caught two passes for 43 yards,
and quarterback Jeff Allen who
completed eight of 17 tosses for
166 yards and two TDs.
Lehigh, its attack thrown out of
balance when New Hampshire
shut down its rushing game went
into the air successfully with
quarterback Joe Sterrett of
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Lambert Luncheon
Dec. 11 In NYC
Saturday's loss to New
Hampshire will have no bearing
on the final 1975 Lambert Cup
ratings which placed Lehigh No.
1 and the Wildcats, champions of
the Yankee Conference, No. 2.
Lehigh will receive the trophy
Dec. 11 at a luncheon in the Hotel
Roosevelt, New York City.
Denny Diehl, of the Lehigh
alumni office, is coordinating the
luncheon for the University.
Anyone desiring information is
asked to phone him at 691-7000,
Crt. 407,
Penn State (Div. I) and Ithaca
(Div. HI) will be honored at the
same affair.
Mike Lieberman To Lead
Squad; 3 Champs Missing
Mike Lieberman
Wrestling TV, Radio
Television and ratio coverage
of Lehigh wrestling once again is
scheduled.
WLVT-TV, Channel 39 of the
Lehigh Valley, will telecast six
home meets for delayed viewing.
Radio    station    WGPA    of
Bethlehem and its FM affiliate,
WEZV, will broadcast some of
the meets and offer summaries ■
following the others.
Radio stations WLRN and
WLVR, of Lehigh University, will
broadcast all of the home meets
and "most" of the away tests.
This activity begins Wednesday, Dec. 3, when the
Engineer matmen open their
campaign against Wilkes in
Grace Hall at 8 p.m.
WLVT-TV, Channel 39, will
telecast the action for showing
Sunday, Dec. 7, at noon. It will be
shown over WVIA, Channel 44 of
the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre
area, Saturday, Dec. 6, at 11 p.m.
WLIW, Channel 21 of Garden
City, N.Y., will offer all of the
Lehigh home meets, originated
by WLVT, at times and dates to
be selected. Viewers on Long
Island are asked to contact
WLIW for this information.
WLVT-TV's next telecast will
be Lehigh—Oregon State, part of
a Dec. 12-13 quadrangular in
Grace Hall, which will be aired
Sunday, Dec. 14, at noon.
The station also will feature
Lehigh against North Carolina
State, Yale, Army and Penn State
on delayed telecasts. Viewing
times and dates still are to be
selected.
Amateur Wrestling USA, a new
pre-meet show featuring EIWA
167-pound champion Mark
Lieberman of Lehigh, will open
each wrestling telecast.
Lieberman, on a five-year
academic program, is sitting out
the 1975-76. Efforts are being
made to pick up stations independently and the shows are
being offered for distribution on
the   Eastern  Educational  Network.
Radio station WEZV-FM, of
Bethlehem, will offer a report of
the Lehigh—Wilkes opener
Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. There
will be similar reports from the
Nassau, N.Y., Coliseum double
dual Sunday, Dec. 7, at 3 p.m. and
5:30 p.m., Featuring Judd Smull
and Carl Frankett.
WGPA will broadcast the
Lehigh—East Carolina meet Dec.
13 from Grace Hall, at 2:15 p.m.,
and WEZV-FM will have summaries Dec. 12 and 13 at 10:30
p.m. covering other meets in the
quad as the Engineers also face
Oregon State and Indiana State of
Terre Haute.
Additional WEZV-FM reports,
and WGPA broadcasts, will be
scheduled as soon as possible
according to program director
Bob Wolken.
The Lehigh Hotline (691-1885)
again will have a summary of
each meet, home and away,
shortly after it concludes, including the Nassau Coliseum and
Grace Hall quadrangular tests,
for which one report at the end of
the day's action will wrap up two
meets.
Seven lettermen, led by NCAA
and EIWA champion Mike
Lieberman of Allentown, Pa.,
will lead Lehigh into the 1975-76
wrestling season Wednesday,
Dec. 3, when the Engineers entertain Wilkes College in Grace
Hall al 8 o'clock.
There will be a preliminary test
at 6:30 p.m. between Lehigh and
Wilkes junior varsity squads.
The Engineers, defending
EIWA team champions, are at
the Nassau, N. Y., Coliseum
Sunday, Dec. 7, to participate in
an afternoon double dual with
Northwestern at 12:30 p.m. and
Florida at 3 p.m.
They host a quadrangular tournament Friday and Saturday,
Dec. 12-13, against Oregon State,
Indiana State of Terre Haute, and
East Carolina University.
For this week's opener, against
Wilkes, the Engineers have their
lineup of seven letter-winners,
two freshmen and a junior
making his collegiate mat debut.
Mike Lieberman, co-captain
and the ranking NCAA and EIWA
champ at 177 pounds, will
compete at 190. Don McCorkel of
Hershey, Pa., EIWA king at 190,
is moving up to heavyweight. A
third EIWA title-holder, Lance
Leonhardt of Bethlehem, Pa.,
moves from his championship
weight of 118 to 126.
The other four lettermen are
Bobby Sloand of Landing, N. J.,
at 134, Tihamer Toth-Fejel of
Cupertino, Calif., at 142, Armin
Vaihinger of Doylestown, Pa., at
150, and Nils Deacon of Howell,
N. J., at 167.
Three other champions, NCAA
and EIWA 134-pound winner
Mike Frick of Hamburg, N. J.,
EIWA 142-pound titlist Pat
Sculley of Bethlehem, Pa., and
EIWA   167-pound  champ   Mark
Sports Dinner Dec. 8
Lehigh football, field
hockey, cross country,
soccer and volleyball
squads will be honored
Monday, Dec. 8, at the
annual fall athletic banquet
sponsored by the Home
Club, the University and
the Alumni Assn.
The dinner is scheduled
for Windish Hall, opposite
Taylor Stadium, at 7:15
p.m. A reception is slated
for 6:15 p.m.
Dr. Deming Lewis,
Lehigh president, and Bill
Leckonby, director of
athletics at the University,
will be among the
speakers. gij
Frank Hrkach, 123 E.
Greenwich St., Bethlehem,
phone 868-4519, is reservations chairman. Mike
Bolton, 2026 Montgomery
St., Bethlehem, is Home
Club president.
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Lieberman,  of Allentown,   Pa.,
won't be in uniform.
Lieberman, on a five-year
academic program, will sit out
the 1975-76 season and finish his
three remaining campaigns of
eligibility beginning a year from
now. Frick is on academic
probation and Sculley is concentrating on his studies in order
to avoid academic problems.
Both of them hope to rejoin the
squad next semester in time for a
midwestern seing Jan. 10-16.
The junior expecting to wrestle
against Wilkes is Glenn Willard
of Yardley, Pa., a former
National Prep Tournament
champion at Lawrenceville. He
has played football at Lehigh but
this will be his first mat competition and he'll be at 158
pounds.
The two freshmen Coach Thad
Turner plans to start are Steve
Turgeon of E. Hartford, Conn., at
118, and Bill Amelio of Carnegie,
Pa., at 177. Amelio was runnerup
in the Pa. states last season to
Brian Statum of Liberty High,
Bethlehem.
The Lehigh lineup, therefore,
which Turner also will use in the
Long Island action at the Nassau
Coliseum barring injury or
illness, will have Turgeon leading
off followed by Leonhardt,
Sloand, Toth-Fejel, Waihinger,
Willard, Deacon, Amelio, Mike
Lieberman and McCorkel.
EIWA Tickets
Go On Sale
Tickets for the 72nd Eastern
Intercollegiate Wrestling Assn.
championships at Franklin and
Marshall College's Mayser
Center next Feb. 27-28 went on
sale Monday, Dec. 1, at Lancaster.
Dr. William A. Marshall,
F&M's athletic director, said
ticket requests will be accepted
only by mail, and will be honored
on a first-come, first-served
basis.
F&M's Mayser Center will seat
3,000 for the EIWA championships.
Series tickets, which will admit
holders to all four sessions of the
championships, cost $12. Ticket
requests must include 50 cents for
handling charges and a stamped-
addressed return envelope.
Marshall said a limited number
of tickets will be available at the
door for-eaetes6ession.