South Mountaineer Volume 20, Issue 12

              Vol. 20 — No. 12
NOVEMBER 29, 1977
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Off To California
Gridders Win, 30-23, Advance
To Semi-Final On West Coast
Game At
A Glance
Lehigh 16 7   0 7—30
Mass    0 8 15 0—23
L—Kreider 71 pass from Rieker.
Wood kick.
I^FG 38 Wood.
L—Kreider 35 pass from Rieker.
Kick blocked.
l^Kreider 7 pass from Rieker.
Wood kick.
M—Dent 36 pass from Fallon.
Cummings, pass from Fallon.
M—Coleman 1 run. Cummings,
pass from Fallon.
M—Gladchuk 7 pass from Fallon.
Croasdale kick.
I^Kreider 8 pass from Rieker.
Wood kick.
Attendance: 5,700
Leh Mass
First downs     25 15
Net yds. rushing   83 131
Net yds. passing  351 138
Total yards 434 269
Passes attempted  40 25
Completed    25 13
Had intercepted     1 0
Punts      4 7
Avg. distance  32 34
Fumbles        1 2
Fumbles lost      0 2
Penalties    5 8
Yds. penalized  45 103
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing att yds avg td
Coleman, M 16   90   5.6   1
Ricketson, L  16   69   4.3   0
Daniels, L   8   33   4.1   0
Fallon, M  10   28   2.8   0
Passing att com int yds td
Rieker, L 40   25   1   351   4
Fallon, M 25   13   0   138   2
Receiving                     cgt yds td
Kreider, L  9 171 4
Dent,M ...:  5   69 1
Daniels, L   5   42 0
Ricketson, L  4   12 0
Van Orden, L   3   55 0
Gladchuk, M    3   32 1
Cummings, M    3   21 0
LEHIGH PLAYOFF SQUAD
(45 is NCAA maximum)
Offense: Ends—Kreider, Van Orden,
Lewis, Ringer, D. Rarig. Tackles—
Vandergrift, Melone, Matics, Seasholtz.
Guards—Stine, Schulze, Zwaan, Dondero.
Centers—Adams, McKay. Quarterbacks—
Rieker, Andres. Halfbacks—Aprill, Daniels,
Morrissey, DeLuca, Barth. Fullbacks—
Ricketson, Ford. Kicker—Wood.
Defense: Ends—Clark, Skola, Butkus,
, Crowe.        Tackles—Giordani, Merrill,
Yaszemski. Linebackers—Frederick,
Bradley, McCormick, Cassone, B. Rarig,
Haupt. Halfbacks—Fenton, Visokey,
Robinson. Safeties—Reese, Hefele, Dunn,
Braverman.
MIKE RIEKER (left) and STEVE KREIDER
NCAA Division 2 Notional
Championship Football Playoffs
SEMI-FINAL ROUND, Saturday, Dec 3
LEHIGH 10-2 at the Univ. of California, Davis 11-0 (1 p.m. EST)
North Dakota State 9-1-1 at Jacksonville, Ala., State 10-2.
QUARTER-FINAL ROUND, Saturday, Nov. 26
LEHIGH  30,  Massachusetts  23;   N.   Dakota  St.   20,   Northern
Michigan 6; Cal-Davis 34, Bethune-Cookman 16; Jacksonville St.
35, Northern Arizona 0.
Saturday's winners meet Dec. 10 in the Pioneer Bowl at Wichita
Falls, Tex., for the Div. 2 national football championship.
ABC- TV Witt Feature Game
ABC-TV will feature the
contest between Lehigh
and Cal-Davis as its
eastern regional 1 p.m.
game Saturday, Dec. 3, the
first part of its Saturday
doubleheader.
It will be shown through
out the eastern section of
the nation, on the coast and
in the Pacific northwest.
Check your ABC-TV
program listings. Only
Channel 6 of Philadelphia,
which is committed to the
Div. Ill national championship       finale       between
Widener and Wabash,
won't show the Lehigh
game. Channel 7, New
York City, will be one of the
stations featuring it.
Bill Fleming will handle
the play-by-play and Ara
Parsegian will handle the
color commentary.
Rieker,
Kreider
Sparkle
Quarterback Mike Rieker and
split end Steve Kreider, the most
productive one-two punch in
college football, blitzed Massachusetts with a four-touchdown
aerial barrage last Saturday as
Lehigh registered a 30-23 triumph
in the NCAA Div. II football
playoffs.
Rieker (Mr. Pitch) and Kreider
(Mr. Catch) staged an incredible
display before 5,700 chilled, rain-
soaked fans at Alumni Stadium
on the UMass capuus.
Lehigh stunned the Yankee
Conference champions with a 71-
yard Rieker to Kreider scoring
pass on the first play of the game,
ran up a 23-0 advantage before
the startled Minutemen could
settle down, and then won the
game a second time after being
caught late in the third quarter.
It was a superlative contest
between two multi-talented,
hard-battling squads and it was a
shame that poor weather conditions kept down the size of the
crowd.
Rieker, exhibiting the form
which allowed him to set a Lehigh
one-game yards-passing mark of
384 earlier this season against
Bucknell, completed 25 of 40
aerials for 351 yards and four
touchdowns despite poor footing
and a strong UMass pass rush.
His first half performance was
unbelievable as he completed 18
of 26 throws for 283 yards and
three TDs. After the intermission
he connected on seven of 14 for 68
yards, one of the completions
producing the game-winning
touchdown.
Many of the spectators hadn't
settled into the seats when
Rieker, on the first scrimmage
play of the afternoon, dropped
back and lofted the ball downfield
to Kreider who made a catch
behind the UMass defense and
scurried into the end zone. Lehigh
led 7-0 after 14 seconds.
On Lehigh's next possession the
Engineers moved from their 22 to
the 18, where placekicker Ken
Wood of Pennington, N.J., missed
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