South Mountaineer Volume 21, Issue 06

              Vol. 21 — No. 6
OCTOBER 17, 1978
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Coal Line Stand, 4 TD Passes
Bring Victory, Lambert
LU Captures
27-21 Game
Before 9,000
Four touchdown passes by
quarterback Rich Andres, and a
successful last-ditch defensive
effort at the goal line, enabled
Lehigh to turn back Davidson last
Saturday before 9,000 Up-
perclassman Parents Day
spectators in Taylor Stadium, 27-
21.
The Engineers' fifth victory in
six starts, coupled with previously-undefeated Boston
University's decisive loss to
Massachusetts, 31-7, vaulted
Lehigh into first place in the
Lambert Cup rankings.
Almost all of the drama, as
Lehigh won for the twelfth
straight time at home, was
packed into the final 2:50 as the
visiting Wildcats barely missed
running off with a triumph which
the Engineers appeared to have
safely salted away.
Coach John Whitehead's team,
a solid pre-game favorite, started
slowly but gradually gained
control of the action and was
coasting comfortably along with
a 27-7 lead late in the game.
Andres had thrown scoring
passes of 9,13 and 35 yards to All-
American split end Steve
Kreider, and a 6-yarder to tight
end Dave Rarig, rain-soaked fans
were heading for the exits and
Victory No. 5 seemed secure.
Then, as suddenly as downpours had arrived during the
earlier part of the game,
Davidson struck for two touchdowns and came so close to a
third that Lehigh fans are still
trembling.
Reserve quarterback Brian
Whitmire, a 6-4, 195-pound freshman from Jacksonville, Fla.,
capped a late drive with a 20-yard
touchdown pass to Gifford Piercy
cutting Lehigh's lead to 27-14 with
3:10 remaining.
He connected with the same
receiver on another scoring
aerial, this one covering 25 yards,
after Davidson recovered a
fumble on the Lehigh 25. The
Engineer advantage suddenly
was a slim six points, 27-21, and
there still was 2:10 left to play.
A successful onsides kickoff
followed, with Davidson gaining
possession on the Lehigh 38, and
when the Wildcats quickly drove
to a first down on the 10 in the
final minute the situation was
desperate for the Engineers.
It went from desperate to un-
.V
Lambert Cup
WEEK OF OCT. 16
l.+LEHIGH 5-1 79
2. Delaware 4-2 59
3.BostonU.4-l 55
4. Massachusetts 3-2 51
5. Rhode Island 4-1  50
6. American Int. 4-0-1 44
7. C.W. Post 4-1 35
8. Clarion St. 5-1 32
9. E.Stroudsburg 5-1 22
10. New Hampshire 3-2-1 8
+Defending champion
Game At A Glance
believable moments later as
Whitmire ran a second-down
keeper 9 yards off right end to the
Lehigh 1. On third down he kept
the ball again, trying to dive
through the right side, only to be
smothered for a yard loss.
On fourth down, with 21
seconds left in the game, he
dropped back and looped a pass
over the middle into the end zone.
Linebacker Bruce Rarig
deflected it, the ball fell harmlessly to the turf, and the
Engineers preserved their
triumph.
Veteran observers recalled a
similar experience against
Gettysburg, in 1969, when Lehigh
took a 24-6 lead into the last five
minutes only to have things
turned completely around. The
Bullets won that one, 26-24, a fate
which the present squad
managed   to   avoid,   but   the
LEHIGH   0 7 13   7—27
Davidson  7 0   0 14—21
D—Walley 2 run. Bass kick.
L—Kreider 13 pass from Andres.
Iobst kick.
L—Kreider 9 pass from Andres.
Kick missed.
l^Kreider 35 pass from Andres.
Iobst kick.
1^—D. Rarig 6 pass from Andres.
Iobst kick.
D—Piercy 20  pass  from  Whitmire. Bass kick.
D—Piercy 25  pass  from  Whitmire. Bass kick.
Attendance—9,000
Leh Dav
First downs  14 12
Net yds. rushing   92 165
Net yds. passing  176 108
Total yards 268 273
Passes attempted  26 23
Completed  12 7
Had intercepted     1 4
Punts  10 9
Avg. distance  35 31
Fumbles    3 3
Fumbles lost    2 2
Yards penalized    55 38
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing                 att yds avg td
Atkinson, D ....... 9   62   6.9 0
Pyles, D 17   44   2.6 0
Walley, D  9   38   4.2 1
Rabuck, D  13   37   2.8 0
DeLuca, L 13   28   2.2 0
Passing att com int yds td
Andres, L 26   12   1   176   4
Whitmire,D ...15    6   2    72   2
Receiving                     cgt yds td
Kreider, L 5 116   3
Piercy, D 5 109   2
D. Rarig, L 2 14   1
LEHIGH PLAYERS
Offense: Ends—Kreider, D.Rarig, Lewis,
Yeager, Van Orden, Nikles. Tackles—
Matics, Melone, Colgan, Scheuer. Guards—
Mahlbacher, Seasholtz, Miksiewicz, Manning. Centers—Adams, Bruxelles. Quarterbacks—Andres, Glenn. Halfbacks—DeLuca,
Ricketson, Morrissey, Rogusky, Tulskie.
Fullbacks—Ford, Rabuck, Romeo. Kicker—
lobst.
Defense: Ends—Butkus, Crowe,
M.Evanko, Titus. Tackles—Yaszemski,
Merrill, Pieczynski. Linebackers: McCain,
B.Rarig, McCormick, Dorrow, Bradley,
Haupt. Halfbacks—Visokey, Robinson,
D'Annibale, Marck. Safetymen—Reese,
Conley, Dunn, O'Sullivan.
National 1-AA
WEEK OF OCT. 9
(Saturday's games not included)
PtS
1. S.Carolina St. 6-0 45
2. Montana St. 5-0  42
3. Nevada-Reno 5-0 39
4. Jackson St. 5-0 36
5. Boston U. 4-0 33
6. LEHIGH 4-1  30
7. Fla. A&M4-0 27
8. E.Kentucky 3-1 23
9. N. Arizona 5-1 21
10. Rhode Island 3-1  19
similarity proved too close for
comfort.
Lehigh had trouble getting its
offense in gear during the early
going,   and   trailed   7-0   during
almost all of the first half. Suddenly, very late in the second
quarter, Andres found the
range. The junior quarterback
from Millville, N.J.,  passed 23
yards to Kreider, 21 yards to tight
end Don Van Orden of
Hawthorne, N.J., and 13 yards to
Kreider for a touchdown with 27
seconds left before halftime.
Davidson made only two first
downs before the intermission
but one of them came as Al
Atkinson broke through center on
a trap and sprinted 41 yards to
the Engineer 5. Two plays later
fullback Page Walley plowed
over from the 2 and the Wildcats
were ahead, 7-0, These were the
first points scored against Lehigh
in the first quarter all season.
Lehigh took the second half
kickoff and marched 75 yards in
10 plays for a 13-7 lead. Andres
passed 36 yards to Kreider,
starting this surge, and 9 yards to
the same receiver for the touchdown. The senior flanker made a
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Rauch Field House Dedicated
Lehigh formally dedicated its
$1,860,000 field house Oct. 13 in
the name of Philip Rauch, an
alumnus who was the major
donor of funds for the building.
Mr. and Mrs. Rauch, of Old
Westbury, N.Y., and Palm
Beach, Fla., and members of
their family were present at
ceremonies which took place at
the facility located in Lehigh's
500-acre Saucon Fields Athletic
Complex.
Participants included Harold S.
Mohler of Hershey, Pa.,
president of Lehigh's board of
trustees, master of ceremonies;
Dr. Deming Lewis, University
president, principal speaker; and
University trustee Frank C.
Rabold of Bethlehem,
acknowledgements, and Bishop
Dean T. Stevenson, also a
trustee, of Harrisburg, Pa., who
offered the invocation and
benediction.
The Philip Rauch Field House
opened in 1976 and immediately
added a new dimension to Lehigh
student, facultv, staff and alumni
life. There now is a new en-
tranceway fronting a series of
new windows and featuring an
appropriate "Philip Rauch Field
House" inscription.
Additional trees and shrubbery
will be added to beautify the area
in keeping with similar  lands-
PHILIP RAUCH Hanked by Dr. Deming
Mohler.
Lewis, left and Harold
caping scheduled for the adjacent
Athletic and Convocation Center
under construction. The landscaping is the gift of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry T. Martindale of Newport
Beach, Calif., as a tribute to Mr.
and Mrs. Rauch. Martindale is a
member of Lehigh's Class of 1927.
Rauch is chairman of the
executive committee and former
chairman of the board of Parker
Hannifin Corp., a multinational
corporation with more than 15,000
employes and nearly 100
operations worldwide with headquarters in Cleveland, O.
He is a member of the Class of
1933 at Lehigh where he studied
business administration and was
a member of varsity football and
wrestling teams. He also is a
member of Phi Delta Theta,
national social fraternity; Alpha
Kappa Psi, national business
administration honorary, and
Cyanide, the University's leadership honorary. After leaving
Lehigh, upon the death of his
father, in 1932, he subsequenth
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