South Mountaineer Volume 20, Issue 03

              Vol. 20 — No. 3
SEPTEMBER 27, 1977
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Offense, Defense Outstanding
In Triumph Over Penn, 19-7
Two TDs
For Kreider
Quarterback Mike Rieker, split
end Steve Kreider and a rock-
ribbed defense led by Glenn
Skola, Bill Bradley, Pete Fenton
and Keith Frederick paced
Lehigh footballers to a convincing 19-7 victory over Pennsylvania last Saturday before a
rain-soaked crowd at Taylor
Stadium.
It was the Engineers' most
impressive triumph since late in
the 1975 campaign when they
manhandled Colgate on the same
turf.
Remember when Penn considered Lehigh the next best
thing to an open date on the
schedule? From 1889 through
1974 the Quakers topped the
Engineers 34 times in 34 tries.
In 1975 the Lehighs snapped
that most-persistent of jinxes
with a come-from-behind victory,
34-23, something that almost
"had to happen because of the
law of averages" according to the
Red and Blue. Last year, under
the lights at Franklin Field, the
Engineers rallied to take another
victory over the Quakers, 24-20.
Saturday's third-in-a-row for
Lehigh over Pennsylvania left no
questions unanswered regarding
the turn of the tide in this series
which began 'way back in 1885.
Coach John Whitehead's
charged-up      gridders,       still
Game At
Leh.Penn
First downs   15   17
Net yds. rushing  181 187
Net yds. passing  194   59
Total yards 375 246
Passes attempted 12   14
Completed   9    7
Intercepted by 1    0
Punts  5    7
Avg. distance 32   35
Fumbles   2    1
Fumbles lost  2    1
Yards penalized  49   40
LEHIGH PLAYERS
OFFENSE: Ends—Kreider, Van Orden,
Lewis, D. Rarig. Tackles—Vandergrift
Melone, Seasholtz, Matics. Guards—Stlne,
Schulze, Dondero, Swaan. Centers—R.
Adams, McKay. Quarterbacks—Rieker,
Andres. Halfbacks—Aprill, DeLuca,
Morrissey. Fullbacks—Ricketson, Ford.
Kicker—Wood.
DEFENSE: Ends—Skola, Clark, Crowe,
3utkus, M. Evanko, Kaupp. Tackles—
Giordani, Merrill, Yaszemski, Pieczynski.
Linebackers—Frederick, Bradley, McCormick, McClain, Drusbosky, B. Rarig,
Mayberry, Cassone, Haupt. Halfbacks—
Fenton, Visokey, Reichenbach, Robinson.
Safetymen— Reese, Hefele, Dunn,
Braverman.
(B8.W Photos)
LEHIGH'S DEFENSE SPARKLED AGAINST Penn as shown in these photos. At left linebacker
Keith Frederick (61), halfback Dale Visokey (19) and other Engineers smother Quaker running
attempt. At right Pete Fenton (18) nails a visiting runner in the open field. Defensive unit came close
to Lehigh's first shutout over Pennsylvania since 1889.
smarting from an unexpected
loss one week earlier at Baldwin-
Wallace, hammered the Quakers
decisively and only a late Penn
surge in the fourth quarter
enabled the visitors to make the
final statistics somewhat acceptable from their point of view.
Rieker, a senior from
Catasauqua, Pa., and Kreider, a
junior from Reading, Pa.,
already had spearheaded an
attack which had produced three
Lehigh touchdowns and a 19-0
lead.
Skola, a senior end from
Wallington, N.J., senior linebackers Bill Bradley of Doyles-
town, Pa., and Keith Frederick of
Lansdale, Pa., and senior halfback  Pete Fenton, of Avenel,
A Glance
LEHIGH 0 13 6 0—19
Penn 0   0 0 7—7
L—Van   Orden  5  pass   from
Rieker. Run failed.
L—Kreider 73 pass from Rieker.
Wood kick.
L—Kreider 58 punt return. Kick
missed.
P—Cioffredi 2 run. LeVan kick.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing att yds avg td
Sciolla.P    20 65 3.3 0
Ricketson, L  12 59 4.9 0
Grosvenor, P 16 58 3.6 0
Rieker, L  8 33 4.1 0
DeLuca, L  7 32 4.6 0
Passing att com int yds td
Rieker, L  12   9   0 194   2
Sciolla, O  12   6   1   54   0
Receiving cgt yds td
Kreider,L 5 131 1
Johnson, P 2 30 0
Aprill, L 2  21 0
Routh.P 2 18 0
Ford.L 2   00
N.J., had paced a defensive unit
which came within 7:29 of scoring
Lehigh's first shutout over Penn
since 1889.
Bradley and Frederick, the
latter playing for the first time
since being injured in pre-season
practice, were the tackle leaders
with 12 and 11, respectively.
Skola hung up nine tackles, one
sack, recovered a fumble and had
the key hit as Lehigh stopped the
Quakers on a fourth-and-one situation at the 3-yard line in the
opening period. Fenton intercepted a pass, had a couple of
crucial knockdowns and made
five open-field stops.
Skola's tackle at the 3, which
terminated a long march by Penn
after the game-opening kickoff,
turned the ball over to Lehigh and
gave the defensive unit a chance
to pull itself together against the
Quakers' new wishbone attack.
Penn couldn't generate this type
of advance again until the fourth
stanza.
For most of the first, second
and third quarters Lehigh's
defensive unit throttled the
Quakers decisively. Penn's wishbone, which had carved out a 17-7
victory over Cornell one week
earlier, never got off the ground.
With the defense more than
doing its part, the Lehigh offense
took the cue and came up with its
best-balanced showing of the
young season, netting 194 yards
in the air and 181 on the ground
for a 375-yard afternoon.
Co-Captains
Defensive halfback Pete
Fenton and quarterback Mike
Rieker have been elected by their
teammates to serve as co-
captains Saturday when Lehigh's
gridders travel to face Davidson.
The squad selects co-captains
each week this season.
Rieker, continuing the hot hand
with which he opened the campaign, completed nine of 12
passes for 194 yards and two
touchdowns and surprised everyone—particularly     the     Penn
KREIDER
ECAC Honors
LU Receiver
Steve Kreider, a senior split
end from Reading, Pa., today
became the second Lehigh football star chosen offensive player-
of-the-week this season for Div. II
in the Eastern College Athletic
Conference.
The ECAC honored Kreider for
a performance against Pennsylvania in which the 6-1, 190-pound
letterman caught three passes
for 131 yards including a 73-yard
touchdown play, scored on a 58-
yard punt return, and returned a
kickoff 19 yards.
Quarterback Mike Rieker was
ECAC Player-of-the-Week
against Connecticut.
The ECAC this week also
honored Bill Bradley, a senior
linebacker from Doylestown,
Pa., who led Lehigh defenders
against Pennsylvania with 12
tackles, placing him on its weekly
honor roll.
UP Averts
Shutout
defense—by carrying the ball
eight times for 33 yards.
This made him Lehigh's
second-best rusher for the day,
topped only by sophomore
fullback Matt Ricketson of
Liverpool, N.Y., who ground out
59 yards in a dozen attempts.
Rieker had a brilliant first half,
completing seven passes in seven
attempts for 173 yards and his
pair of touchdowns. After the
intermission Lehigh played a
little more conservatively,
especially after adding its third
TD, and Rieker ran more and
passed less.
Kreider's heroics were topped
by three catches of Rieker aerials
for 131 yards, including a 73-yard
touchdown toss, a 58-yard punt
return for a touchdown, and a 19-
yard kickoff return. Rieker's
other scoring toss was a 5-yarder
to tight end Don Van Orden, a
junior from Hawthorne, N.J.
Fenton's interception set the
stage for the game's first points.
It gave Lehigh the ball at its 33
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Booters
Roll, 5-1
Mike Robinson of Philadelphia,
Pa., notched a pair of goals as
Lehigh's soccer team trimmed
Swarthmore, 5-1.
It was a major victory for the
Engineers coming against a host
team which has just defeated
Navy, a team which edged
Lehigh earlier in the season, 2-1.
Robinson's scores both came in
the first half as Lehigh took a 2-0
advantage.
Goals by Paul Shook of
Doylestown, Pa., Jeff Nelson of
King of Prussia, Pa., and Tim
McDaniel of Liverpool, N.Y.,
completed the Engineer rout
following the intermission.
Andy Mclntyre of Bethlehem,
Pa., and Dan Dantuono of
Smithtown, N.Y., paced a Lehigh
defense which made it easy for
goalies Jim Butler of Oreland,
Pa., and Kris Talgo of
Mamaroneck, N.Y.
LEHIGH .' 2 3—5
Swarthmore   0 1—1
Lehigh goals; Mike Robinson 2.
Paul Shook, Jeff Nelson, Tim
McDaniel. Assists: Andy
Mclntyre, Skip DiMassa, Nelson,
Gordon Crape, Bruce Clark.
Swarthmore Goal; Bob
Nicholson.