South Mountaineer Volume 20, Issue 08

              Vol. 20 — No. 8
NOVEMBER 1, 1977
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Rieker (Record 384 Yards)
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Leads Lehigh Past Bucknell
Engineers Rojit Bisons, 47-13.
For Sixth Victory In 8 Games
JVs Trounce
Lafayette
Lehigh's junior varsity football
team whitewashed Lafayette, 28-
0, in its final test of the season to
finish with a 3-and-2 record. The
game was played at Fisher Field.
Quarterback Lou Pierro of
Hudson, N.Y., twice connected
with halfback Bob Romeo of New
Providence, N.J., on short
scoring passes in the first
quarter. Halfback Steve
Plucinsky of Wallington, N.J.,
tallied Lehigh's other TDs, both
on four-yard right end sweepts.
The first Plucinsky TD was set
up as Keith Conley of Rockville,
Md., returned an intercepted
pass 44 yards to the Lafayette 8
and a penalty pushed the ball to
the 4.
The second came after the
Little Engineers, coached by Joe
Sterrett, lined up in a surprise
"shotgun" formation and the
center snap went directly to
Romeo in the tailback position.
He passed 21 yards to Pierro and
the touchdown came three plays
later.
LEHIGH JV    14 7 0 7—28
LafJV  0 0 0 0—0
L—Romeo 3 pass from Pierro.
Iobst kick.
L—Romeo 2 pass from Pierro.
Iobst kick.
L— Plucinsky  4  run.   Freeman
kick.
L—Plucinsky 4 run. Iobst kick.
MIKE RIEKER
8-For-8
Lehigh's undefeated
women's field hockey team
upped its record to 6-0-3
last week with victories
over Muhlenberg, 5-0, and
LaSalle, 3-2.
The women's volleyball
squad also helped Lehigh
fashion a perfect week with
triumphs over Moravian, 3-
0, and LaSalle, 3-1.
Lehigh athletes went 8-
for-8 the week.
There also were victories
of 47-13 over Bucknell in
varsity football, 28-0 over
Lafayette in JV football, 16-
46 over Lafayette in cross
country and 6-2 over
Lafayette in soccer.
Runners, Booters Give LU
Early Lead In Trophy Race
Soccer and cross country
victories last week gave Lehigh
first blood over Lafayette in the
1977-78 All-Sports Trophy
scramble.
Coach Tom Fleck's booters
came from behind to trounce the
Leopards, 6-2, and Coach John
Covert's runners coasted to an
easy margin, 16-46, with three
Engineers tieing for first place.
Mike Robinson, of Philadelphia, Pa. scored twice in the
soccer match while Tim McDaniel, of Liverpool, N.Y., came
off the bench to spark the comeback with a goal and an assist.
In the cross country run Larry
Ullrich of Amherst, N.H., Dave
Rohr of Rochester, N.Y., and Jim
Davis of Maplewood, N.J., all
representing Lehigh, tied for top
honors in 25:58.8 over the 5-mile
Metzgar Fields course.
Other Engineer placers were
Dennis Sprick of Clifton, N.J.,
fourth; Dave Friedfeld of
Merrick, N.Y., sixth; Rich
Devine of Westwood, N.J.,
seventh, and Kevin Talhelm of
Hellertown, Pa., ninth.
The soccer summary:
LEHIGH 2   4 — 6
Lafayette .-. .1   1 — 2
Lehigh goals: Robinson 2,
Nichols, McDaniel, Malik, Skiff.
Assists: McDaniel, Shook,
DiMassa, Aduhene.
Lafayette goals: Gummeson,
Clabotti. Assist: Peddie.
The cross country summary:
1. Larry Ullrich, Lehigh; Dave
Rohr, Lehigh; Jim Davis,
Lehigh, tied in 25:58.8; 4. Dennis
Sprick, Lehigh 26:17; 5. Larry
Kulig, Lafayette 26:22; 6. Dave
Friedfeld, Lehigh 26:31; 7. Rich
Devine, Lehigh 26:36; 8. Dan
Glickenhaus, Lafayette 26:40; 9.
Kevin Talhelm, Lehigh 26:52; 10.
Pete Tunnell, Lafayette 26:59.
Senior quarterback Mike
Rieker, nearing the end of a
brilliant two-year varsity career,
smashed an individual Lehigh
record and helped the team
collect two more last Saturday as
the Engineer footballers crushed
Bucknell before a Freshman
Parents Day crowd of 11,500 in
Taylor Stadium, 47-13.
It was Lehigh's sixth victory in
eight starts and, coupled with
New Hampshire's stunning 21-20
upset at the hands of Rhode
Island, may have been enough to
catapult the Engineers into first
place in the weekly Lambert Cup
rating. Lehigh whipped Rhode
Island easily, 42-16.
Rieker had an unbelievable
afternoon against the Bisons as
he completed 16 of 28 passes for
384 yards and four touchdowns,
picked up nine yards running for
a 393-yard total offense, threw a
two-point conversion pass and
scored a two-point conversion on
a run.
His passing yardage topped the
Lehigh record of 325 established
by All-American quarterback
Kim McQuilken in 1972 as he
completed 29 of 41 attempts
against Colgate. McQuilken's
now in his fourth season with the
Atlanta Falcons.
This unprecedented outburst
enabled the Engineers to set
Lehigh standards for most yards
passing in one game (463, topping
a mark of 390 set against
Lafayette in 1973), and total
yards in one game (682, bettering
a record of 664 established
against Lafayette in 1971).
Rieker was going coast-to-
coast against the Bisons,
throwing touchdown passes of 34
yards to halfback John Morrissey
of Monroe, Conn., 42 yards to split
end Steve Kreider of Reading,
Pa., 7 yards to halfback Lennie
Daniels of Coxsackie, N.Y., and
another to Daniels covering 49
yards.
Daniels also tallied on a 9-yard
run, and took a conversion toss
from Rieker, for a 20-point
performance.
The sixth Engineer TD came on
an 8-yard gallop by fullback Mike
Ford of Kansas City, Mo. Place-
kicker Kenny Wood, of Pennington, N.J., added two extra
point kicks and a 38-yard field
goal before being injured late in
the third quarter and going to the
sideline. This prompted Lehigh to
attempt two-point conversions
after its last three touchdowns
and the Engineers made them
all.
Rieker, who had a 70-yard pass
to Daniels nullified by a penalty,
averaged 24 yards per completion. His longest gain was 57
yards to tight end Don Van Orden
of Hawthorne, N.J.
Bucknell's offense made a
valiant effort to make a game of
it, moving 58 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter and
striking on a 41-yard pass play for
another in the third, but the Bison
defense folded up under Rieker's
barrage.
When your total team offense is
a fairly respectable 238 yards,
but the rival quarterback picks
up 393, you know it was a mistake
getting off the bus. That's what
happened to the Bisons.
Bucknell's hopes of a third
straight upset against Lehigh dissolved suddenly late in the second
quarter after the visitors appeared ready to take a 6-3 lead
into the locker room at intermission.
Lehigh, which had gained the
upper hand on the field if not on
the scoreboard during the second
period, suddenly caught fire.
With the ball at midfield halfback
Dave Aprill, of Fords, N.J., swept
right end for 13 yards, Rieker hit
Van Orden on a 25-yard toss and
Daniels did the rest, getting
yardage on a reverse and then
bulling nine yards through left
tackle into the end zone. Only 1:54
remained in the half.
The Engineers kicked off,
forced a return punt which gave
them the ball at the Bison 42, and
Rieker lofted a pass into the end
zone where Kreider made the
reception. Wood, whose conversion try had missed after the
first Lehigh TD, added this one
and it was 16-6 with 58 seconds
still to play before the intermission.
On their fourth  play  of  the
second half the Engineers struck
overhead again, Rieker throwing
his    34-yard    touchdown    to
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Game At A Glance
LEHIGH 3 13 15 16—47
Bucknell  6   0   7   0—13
L-FG 38 Wood.
B—Lipp 17 run. Kick blocked.
L—Daniels 9 run. Wood kick.
L—Kreider 42 pass from Rieker.
Kick missed.
L—Morrissey   34   pass   from
Rieker. Wood kick.
B—Simmons 41 pass from Lipp.
Lake kick.
L—Daniels 7 pass from Rieker.
Daniels, pass from Rieker.
L—Daniels 49 pass from Rieker.
Rieker run.
L—Ford 8 run. Ford, pass from
Andres.
Attendance: 11,500.
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Leh Buc
First downs      28 13
Net yds. rushing   219 169
Net yds. passing  +463 69
Total yards +682 238
Passes attempted    35 12
Completed      20 4
Had intercepted       2 2
Punts       3 9
Avg. distance    26 36
Fumbles       2 2
Fumbles lost       2 1
Yds. penalized    69 58
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing                  att yds avg td
Simmons, B  7   53   7.5 0
Morrissey, L  7   53   7.4 0
Daniels, L   15   49   3,2 1
Woody, B  14   48   3.4 0
Ricketson, L   7   46   6.5 0
Boyd.B 13   36   2.7 0
Passing att com int yds td
Rieker, L 28 16 2 +384 4
Andres,L   7   40     79   0
Lipp.B .. 10   3 1      52   1
Receiving no yds td
VanOrden,L  5   129   0
Daniels, L  5   111   2
Kreider, L 5   102   1
Lewis, L 2     56   0
Morrissey, L    2     53   1
H—Lehigh one-game record.
LEHIGH PLAYERS
Offense: Ends—Kreider, Van Orden,
Lewis, Ringer, D. Rarig. Tackles—
Vandergrift, Melone, Seasholtz, Garibaldi,
Matics, Probst. Guards—Stine, Schulze,
Zwaan, Dondero, Mahlbacher. Centers-
Adams, McKay. Quarterbacks—Rieker,
Andres. Halfbacks—Aprill, Daniels, Barth,
DeLuca, Morrissey. Fullbacks—Ford,
Ricketson. Kicker—Wood.
Defense: Ends—Skola, Clark, Crowe, M.
Evanko, Butkus. Tackles—Giordani,
Merrill, Yaszemski, Pieczynski.
Linebackers—Frederick, Bradley, McCormick , McClain, Cassone, B. Rarig,
Mayberry, Haupt, Drusbosky. Halfbacks—
Fenton, Visokey, Reichenbach, Robinson.
Safety—Reese, Hefele, Dunn, Colangelo,
Braverman.