South Mountaineer Volume 21, Issue 05

              Vol. 21 — No. 5
OCTOBER 10, 1978
BETHLEHEM, PA.
17-Point Blast In First 6:24
Too Much For Delaware 11
JVs Romp
At Kutztown
Five different players scored
touchdowns as Lehigh's junior
varsity football squad overwhelmed Kutztown State, 39-19,
for its first victory following an
opening 20-16 loss at West
Chester.
Lehigh's defense got things
rolling early at Kutztown. Ken
Allwood of E. Orange, N.J.,
recovered a fumble on the Bears'
10 and two plays later quarterback Brian Dehler of Lake
Grove, N.Y., passed six yards to
halfback Steve Plucinsky of
Wallington, N.J., for a touchdown.
Early in the second period Ken
Rosen of Elmwood Park, N.J.,
blocked a punt and quarterback
Larry Michalski of Pittsburgh,
Pa., fired a 37-yard scoring pass
to Mike Whalen of South Plain-
field, N.J. Paul Anastasio of
Camp Hill, Pa., recovered a
fumbled punt and the Little
Engineers drove in from short
range with Greg Manion of
Delmar, Pa., running the final
yard for a 21-0 lead.
Before the halftime intermission Mark Hull of
Mechanicsburg, Pa., turned in a
35-yard dash to the Kutztown 6.
The threat stalled but Roger
Penske of Gladwyne, Pa., kicked
a 33-yard field goal, and Karl
Nielsen of Wyckoff, N.J., tackled
a Kutztown runner in the end
zone for a safety and a 26-0
margin.
In the third period still another
quarterback, John Parrish of
Stamford, Conn., completed a 50-
yard pass to Whalen and then
threw 16 yards to Tim Miller of
Allentown, Pa., for a TD, and
Mike Tuohey of North Syracuse,
N.Y., finished the Lehigh scoring
going 60 yards into the end zone
on a punt return.
LEHIGH 7 19 13   0—39
Kutztown 0   0   6 13—19
L—Plucinsky 6 pass from Dehler.
Whalen kick.
L—Whalen     37     pass     from
Michalski. Penske kick.
L—Manion 1 run. Whalen kick.
I^-FG 33 Penske.
L—Safety. Nielsen tackled ballcarrier in end zone.
K—Keeney 1 pass from Peluso.
Kick blocked.
L—Miller 16 pass from Parrish.
Penske kick.
L—Tuohey 60 punt return. Kick
blocked.
K—Hicks 14 pass from Peluso.
Wert kick.
K—Edwards    12    pass    from
Peluso. Kick missed.
Ratings
National 1-AA
I
Lehigh Scores 27-17 Victory
With Fast Start, Big Finish
1. South Carolina St. 5-0 45
2. Montana St. 4-0  42
3. Nevada Reno 4-0 38 Offense   and   defense   shared
4. Jackson St. 4-0 36 e(>ua"y in the S'<>ry last Satur-
5. Boston Univ. 3-0 34 dav- "'ending their efforts per-
6. Lehigh3-1                           .29 fect,y to give Leh'gh's reboun-
1. Florida A&M 3-0 ....       ...Tl ding footba11 team a convincing
8 Boise St 3-1                           25 v'ctory   over   Delaware   before
9^ N. Arizona 4-1...                 ..21 '4,000 rooters at Taylor Stadium,
10. Rhode Island 2-1  20 27~17-        ,     ,
W.Kentucky 3-1  20 It was the fourth triumph in
E Kentucky 2-1                     20 five starts for tne Engineers and
the second straight time they've
whipped the Blue Hens. In 1975
Lambert Cup Lehigh  won   35-23   at  Newark,
Del., and the teams didn't meet in
WEEK OF OCTOBER 2 1976 or 1977
Lehigh, bouncing back from a
1. Boston U. 3-0.....-., 54 loss   against   Pennsylvania   at
2. Delaware 3-1 52 Franklin Field eight days earlier,
3. + LEHIGH 3-1  47 went into action ranked behind
4. Clarion St. 4-0 41 DeiaWare in the Lambert Cup
5. American Int. 3-0  32 poll   The Engineers were third
6. Rhode Island 2-1  25 and the Hens, beaten previously
7. C.W. Post 2-1 20 on|y by temple, were second.
8. E.Stroudsburg 2-1 16 They   had   manhandled   West
9. Massachusetts 1-2 15 chester, for instance, 56-0, after
10. New HampshireM  13 Lehigh defeated the Rams, 23-20.
+Defending champion. Anyone  still  take  comparative
  scores seriously?
,.v™«w-»« jn this 30th Lehigh-Delaware
Field  HOUSe clash the Engineers used their
defense-offense    mixture    with
D@CliCCtiOri uncanny   success.   The   hardhitting        defense        knocked
The Philip Rauch Field   t\ Delaware runners loose from the
:j   House,  one of the finest   '(.} ball   four   times   and   made
i|   facilities of its kind in the   || recoveries,    grabbed    another
||   East and a center of ac-   | fumble which came on a botched
tivity at Lehigh's 500-acre   I handoff, ran up six sacks and
|§   Saucon     Fields     athletic   |j intercepted a pass.
complex, will be formally   .-. About the only thing Lehigh did
|   dedicated Friday, Oct. 13   || wrong during the afternoon was
|   at 11 30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. pick up nine penalties which cost
Rauch, and other members the Engineers  114 hard-earned
|   of the family, will attend. yards and made the victory that
Ceremonies      are   |i much   more   difficult   to   ac-
I   scheduled at the field house complish.
I   entrance. Participants will   §| Lehigh's   defense  turned  the
be  Harold  S.   Mohler  of   |j opening minutes of the game into
Hershey, Pa., chairman of   f.: a nightmare for the Hens which
|   the board and chairman of   p they'll  have  a   lot   of   trouble
|   the executive committee of   || forgetting. First, after winning
Hershey Foods Corp., and    ,: the toss, the Engineers elected to
president of Lehigh's board   i kick off and have a strong wind at
:    of   trustees,   master   of   j| their backs. This confidence in
I   ceremonies;   Dr.   Demirig the defense paid off quickly.
i   Lewis,  Lehigh University On the first play from scrim-
■    president,    the   principal mage the ball was jarred free and
\   speaker;      University recovered by Dale Visokey of
trustees Frank C. Rabold   q Pittsburgh, Pa.,  giving  Lehigh
•:   of  Bethlehem,   Pa.,   ack-   : possession on the Delaware 28.
|   nowledgements,      and Four downs later Ted Iobst of
|   Bishop Dean T. Stevenson    C Emmaus, Pa., kicked a 41-yard
|   of   Harrisburg,   Pa.,   in- field goal for a 3-0 lead.
|   vocation and benediction. Lehigh kicked off again, the
Rauch,        a        Lehigh defense held and a return punt
alumnus,   is   the   major sliced off the kicker's foot and out
|   donor of funds for the $2 of bounds only one yard ahead of
|   million   building. the scrimmage line. Lehigh took
over at the Delaware 27 and on
the fifth play fullback Mike Ford,
of Kansas City, Mo., bulled into
the end from one yard away.
Lehigh led, 10-0.
On the return of the ensuing
kickoff the charged-up Engineers
popped the ball-carrier so hard
he coughed it up again and Mark
Evanko of Madison, N.J.,
recovered for Lehigh at the
Delaware 29.
A roughing-the-passer penalty
helped advance the ball to the two
and halfback Vince Rogusky of
Catasauqua, Pa., took a pitchout
from quarterback Rich Andres of
Millville, N. J., and moved around
right end across the goal line.
Iobst, who had a perfect
kicking day with three conversions and two field goals in
two tries, added the point.
The Engineers were up, 17-0,
after only 6:24 of action in an
incredible opening surge. It was a
score which followers of each
team found almost impossible to
Hens' Blue Review
Viewers of WHYY-TV, Ch. 12
of Philadelphia, may watch
highlights of the Lehigh-
Delaware football game Friday,
Oct. 13 at 10:30 p.m. on the Blue
Hen Review program.
believe as it was flashed across
the nation on the ABC-TV
national scoreboard.
Delaware, although stunned,
fought back but was stopped at
every turn until Lehigh got into
the fumble act with only two
minutes remaining in the half.
The Hens took over at the
Engineer 16 and scored on a pass
with 1:53 left. They kicked off,
forced a return punt and added a
46-yard field goal with 24 seconds
to go, cutting their deficit to 17-10
at the intermission.
When Lou Mariani scampered
45 yards off the right side for a
TD with 9:24 remaining in the
third stanza, and the Hens added
the conversion to pull even at 17-
17, the momentum appeared to be
going Delaware's way.
The Engineers regained their
poise quickly, however, and the
game settled into a punting duel.
Delaware made one more serious
bid, moving from its own 39 to a
third-and-three at the Lehigh 20
before linebacker Bruce Rarig of
Whitehall, Pa., sacked quarterback Jeff Komlo for a three-
yard loss. This forced a fourth-
down field goal try by Brandt
Kennedy, who already had
connected on the 46-yarder just
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Game At A Glance
LEHIGH 17    0   0 10—27
Delaware  0 10   7   0—17
Iy—FG 41 Iobst.
1^—Ford 1 run. Iobst kick.
I^Rogusky 2 run. Iobst kick.
D—Wood 16 pass from Komlo.
Kennedy kick.
D—FG 46 Kennedy.
D—Mariani   45   run.    Kennedy
kick.
I^Kreider 36 pass from Andres.
Iobst kick.
I^FG 25 Iobst.
Attendence—14,000.
Leh Del
First downs  12   17
Net yds. rushing  134 146
Net yds. passing  117 154
Total yards 251 300
Passes attempted  26 29
Completed  11 13
Had intercepted    n 1
Punts  11 10
Avg. distance  33 27
Fumbles    2 5
Fumbles lost    2 4
Yards penalized 114 54
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing                 att yds avg td
Mariani, D  5   76 15.2 1
Dennis, D 14   46   3.3 0
Sully, D 13   40   3.1 0
Andres, L 14   40   2.9 0
Ford, L  15   40   2.7 1
Rogusky, L  9   35   3.9 1
Passing att com int yds td
Komlo, D 29   13    1    154    1
Andres, L 26   11   0   117   1
Receiving cgt yds td
Kreider, L 6   100   1
Bistrian,D 5     64   0
Ravettine,D 2     33   0
LEHIGH PLAYERS
Offense: Ends—Kreider, D.Rarig, Lewis,
Yeager, Van Orden. Tackles—Matics,
Melone, Scheuer. Guards—Mahlbacher,
Seasholtz, Miksiewicz, Manning. Centers—
Adams, Bruxelles. Quarterback—Andres.
Halfbacks—DeLuca, Rogusky, Morrissey,
Ricketson. Fullbacks—Ford, Rabuck.
Kicker—lobst.
Defense: Ends—Butkus, Crowe,
M.Evanko, Titus. Tackles—Yaszemski,
Merrill. Linebackers—McClain, B.Rarig,
McCormick, Dorrow, Witte, Bradley,
Mercuri, Haupt. Halfbacks—Visokey,
Robinson, D'Annibale, Marck. Safetymen—
Reese, Conley, Dunn, O'Sullivan.