South Mountaineer Volume 20, Issue 13

              Matmen Take Penn St. Invitational
Vol. 20 — No. 13
DECEMBER 6, 1977
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Lehigh In NCAA Grid Finals
After 39-30 Win On Coast
Two Crowns
i
For Engineers    :,~ : ^^^^^m^m^mm
Mike Newbern's victory in the
heavyweight title bout, Mark
Lieberman's win at 177 and a
controversial disqualification of
Penn State's 190-pounder Bill
Bertrand combined to pull
Lehigh to a 109y2-107y2 margin
over the Nittany Lions for the
team title in the Penn State Invitational Wrestling Tournament
Saturday night.
The Engineers trailed by two
points entering Newbern's tiff
with top-seeded Jack Campbell of
Clarion.
Making Newbern's task all the
more imposing was the fact that ~ ^        ^ J
Mike Brown had just been upset        "i       ^
by Pitt's Bill Bailey in the 190-
pound final.
But   Newbern,   of   Virginia B&w Photo
feTeCrsalsVaa Sdtwn^a t|        Lehi9h  Runni"9 Star Mike  F°rd   '"  Acti°"
point nearfall and a time point for
a decisive 11-6 win over Camp- /"l/ft*!^     A #    A     {%ltt¥%f>CX
bell, who outweighed him by 30 V^UfffC?    All    Al    v7fUllV,t?
pounds.   Newbern reached  the
""h^ lV ,th«ruShin^  STf"      LEHIGH 16 0 14 9-39 Moroski. Thorne pass from
seeded Paul Hill of Maryland. Davjs •       Moroski.
Lieberman waltzed to his title I,—Rieker 1 run. Wood kick,
with a minimum of stress. He UCD—Griffin   36   pass   from
hammered   Penn   State's   Dan L-Apnll 4 run. Kick missed Moroski. Scellan kick.
Pfautz  13-1  after disposing  of I-Kreider 81 pass from Rieker. lr_Fmd 25 pass from  Rieker.
Clarion's Jay Hockenbroch 7-0 in           Wood kick. Wood kick
the semis. L-FG 38 Wood- l_FG 41 Wood.
But   just   as   important   to UCD-Loving   10   pass   from UCD_Belza    69    pass    fr0m
Lehigh's team success was the           Moroski.  Wilson  pass  from Moroski. Scellan kick,
turn   of   events   involving   the Moroski. I,—Ford 24 run. Kick missed.
(Continued on Page 2) UCD-Loving   9   pass    from i^vcd
First downs     20' 15
Net yds. rushing   235 25
>f              : I;                     Net yds. passing   271 353
"                    Total yards  506 378
af         *^^P*J                   Passes attempted  26 46
Completed     12 21
Had intercepted   3 5
:4        X      *'       l- fit i"- V ',^*s^\.           Punts    6 9
Yards   173 308
Avg. distance   28.8 34.2
Fumbles    1 1
Fumbles lost    0 1
Penalties   3 6
Yds. penalized  35 56
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing att yds avg td
Fords, L  13   66   5.1    1
Daniels, L   13   55   4.2   0
Aprill, L   14   42   3.0   1
Ricketson, L   4   33   8.3   0
Rieker, L  10   23   2.3   1
Wheeler, UCD .... 5 18 3.6 0
Passing att com int yds td
Moroski, UCD .46 21 5 353 4
Rieker, L 25   11   3   265   2
Receiving cgt yds td
Ellison, UCD   6     75   0
b&w Photo        Kreider, L  5   161   1
Pete Fenton (18) Does His Job On  Defense     Griffin,ucd 4 127 1
Rieker, Kreider, Ford
Pace Engineer Attack;
Title Game Saturday
It's Lehigh vs. Jacksonville, Ala., State on
Saturday, in the Pioneer Bowl at Wichita
Falls, Tex., for the 1977 NCAA Div. 11 football
championship. The kickoff is scheduled for
1:30 p.m. EST and ABC-TV will televise it
nationally.
Both teams won impressively last weekend
in semi-final tests. Lehigh knocked off
previously-undefeated University of California at Davis, 39-30, and Jax State eliminated
North Dakota State, 31-7.
Coach      John      Whitehead's      capacity turnout of 10,500 wildly-
Engineers came up with excellent offensive balance, 235
yards rushing and 271 yards
passing, and an opportunistic
defense, one fumble recovery and
five interceptions, to move into
the final round of the playoffs.
Cal-Davis, which had won its
last 20 in a row at home over a
four-year period, and was 11-0 for
the 1977 season, had these streaks
shattered during an offensive
show in which the teams combined for 69 points and 884 yards.
Line superiority gave Lehigh a
significant advantage before the
B&W Photo
JOHN WHITEHEAD
... Lehigh Coach     ,
rooting spectators at Toomey
Field in this Rockne Bowl attraction.
The Engineers' offensive
forward wall took charge,
especially during the second half,
clearing the way for perhaps the
team's most impressive ground
display of the season. Running
backs Mike Ford of Kansas City,
Mo., Lennie Daniels of Cox-
sackie, N.Y., and Dave Aprill of
Fords, N.J., ran hard behind
good openings and quarterback
Mike Rieker had adequate
protection as he set to throw.
Lehigh was able to maintain
the kind of ball control it needed
to work time off the clock and
keep the ball away from an explosive Cal-Davis team which
kept bouncing back all day.
Leaders in this offensive line
effort were tight end Don Van
Orden of Hawthorne, N.J.,
tackles Dave Melone of Weston,
Mass., and Andy Vandergrift,
guards Jim Schulze of Marietta,
Ga., and Tom Stine of Or-
wigsburg. Pa., split end Steve
Kreider of Reading, Pa., and
center Rick Adams of
Tonawanda, N.Y.
Defensively the Engineers
hung in there against one of the
most productive offenses in Div.
II football, forcing the Aggies to
almost forget their running game
and disrupting aerial efforts with
the five interceptions. Ends Greg
Clark of Pittsford, N.Y., and
Mike Crowe of New York City,
tackles Eric Merrill of Montrose,
Pa., and Tom Giordani, and linebackers Keith Frederick of
Lansdale, Pa., Jim McCormick
of Millville, N.J., and Bill
Bradley of Doylestown, Pa., led
the defense up front with Pete
(Continued on Page 2)