South Mountaineer Volume 23, Issue 09

              Vol. 23 — No. 9
NOVEMBER 11, 1980
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Engineers Roll, 23-10,
Move Closer To Playoffs
Second Half Rally Flattens
Rhode Island Before 10,000
Broadcasts,
Dinners
Planned
Lehigh alumni groups are
scheduling their annual pre-
Lafayette game dinners along
with sites across the nation
where WLVR's broadcast of the
contest will be heard, as
follows:
MONDAY, NOV. 17
Lehigh Club of Delaware:
Annual pre-Lafayette luncheon
at noon, Central YMCA, downtown Wilmington, Del. $3.
Speaker Denny Diehl, assistant
director, Alumni Office. Quent
Jurgensen, phone 774-8282
(office) and John Latimer co-
chairmen. Football and
wrestling.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19
Lehigh Club of New York:
Annual victory party, Chemists
Club, 52 E. 41st St., New York
City, 5:30 p.m. Refreshments,
cash bar, dinner optional. $4 to
$7.50. No charge Class of 1980.
Speaker Craig Anderson,
Lehigh business manager of
athletics. Football films. Harvey Skolnick, Main Hurdman &
Cranstoun, 280 Park Ave., NYC,
chairman.
THURSDAY, NOV. 20
Lehigh Club of Northern New
Jersey: Maennerchor Night,
Beef and Ale House, 24 1st St.,
South Orange, N.J., 7 p.m.
Refreshments. $7 to $10 single,
$11 to $15 couple. Speakers John
Luckhardt and Wayne Grube,
assistant football coaches. Bob
Fetterman, phone 201-761-7452
(home) and Ron Johnson 201-
361-6297 (home) co-chairmen.
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LU Women
In Nationals
I Goals by Ann Hackenberg
I of Princeton,  N.J.,  and
| Michele Ruth, of Harris-
1 burg, Pa., gave Lehigh's
| women a 2-0 field hockey
it victory  over  Lafayette
i and  third place in last
|i; weekend's   eastern   reg-
1 ional tournament at Tow-   §|
1 son, Md.
The third place finish   ||
1 qualified   Coach   Judy   il
1 Turner's team for a spot   i|;
I in the Div. 2 Nationals at   ||
| Edwardsville, 111.
How Lehigh
Rivals Fared
How Lehigh's football rivals
fared last weekend:
Maine (4-6)—Lost to Princeton, 24-7;
Colgate (5-3-1)—Defeated
Bucknell, 17-14;
Penn (1-7)—Lost to Villanova, 34-3;
Delaware (7-2)—Defeated
Kings Point, 59-13;
Army (3-5-1)—Defeated Air
Force, 47-24;
Davidson (5-4)—Lost to Fur-
man, 21-7;
Bucknell (5-4)—Lost to Colgate, 17-14;
James Madison (3-6)—Lost to
E. Tenn., 28-23;
Rhode Island (2-7)—Lost to
Lehigh, 23-10;
Northeastern (2-7) —Defeated C. Conn., 21-20;
Lafayette (2-6) —Lost to New
Hampshire, 26-6.
Lehigh   University's  first
football victory came in 1885
Top Seven 1 -AA Teams Win
The seven top-ranked 1-AA
football teams, including
Lehigh which moved into
second place last week, won
their games Saturday.
South Carolina State, No. 1,
upped its record to 10-0 with a
triumph over Bethune-
Cookman, 21-0.
Western Kentucky, No. 3, has
a 9-0 mark after topping Middle
Tennessee, 30-15.
Boston University, No. 4, is 8-1
following a comeback victory
over Connecticut, 28-24.
Eastern Kentucky (7-2) and
Grambling (8-1), who were tied
for No. 5, knocked off Tennessee
Tech, 48-7, and Alabama State,
28-12, respectively.
Boise State, No. 7 last week,
went to 7-2 with a 14-3 conquest
of Nevada Reno.
Weekly ratings are announced by the NCAA on Tuesdays,
too late to be included in the
South Mountaineer of that
week.
In key games this weekend
Lehigh hosts Northeastern,
South Carolina State plays at
Grambling and Boston U. visits
Bucknell. Western Kentucky
has an open date.
Lehigh footballers continued
their relentless drive toward an
unbeaten season, an invitation
to the 1-AA playoffs and a Lambert Cup last Saturday with a
23-10 victory over Rhode Island
before some 10,000 Alumni
Family Day spectators in Taylor Stadium.
It was the seventh victory,
along with two ties, for Coach
John Whitehead's Engineers
who went into action ranked
second nationally in the 1-AA
division and first in the Lambert
race.
Lehigh has fashioned one
undefeated season in its previous 96 years of football and
appropriately enough members
of that team —the 1950
aggregation—were on hand
observing their 30th anniversary.
Only a major upset will keep
the 1980 team from getting
through their schedule without
a loss. Remaining on the slate
are Northeastern (2-7), Saturday at home, and Lafayette (2-
6), Nov. 22 at Easton.
Junior quarterback Larry
Michalski, of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
was the big gun in the Rhode
Island triumph. He completed
10 of 20 passes for 194 yards, one
of them a scoring toss, and several of the others set up short
touchdown plunges.
Senior split end Mark Yeager,
of Madison, N.J., caught seven
of Michalski's tosses including
the TD throw which covered 24
yards. That was one of his easiest grabs of the day. Several
others were sideline jobs on
which he somehow managed to
stay in bounds while making
super catches. His receptions
were worth 138 yards.
Rhode Island, like James
Madison one week earlier, got
on the scoreboard first and
forced the Engineers to play
catch-up. The Rams led 7-0 in
the opening quarter and 10-7 in
the third but each time Lehigh
showed a lot of poise in doggedly
retaliating.
In the first period the Rams
took possession at the Lehigh 21
following an interception,
moved to the 6 on a pass interference penalty and scored on a
dash through left guard by tailback Leroy Shaw.
They gambled a few minutes
later, refusing to punt and running a fourth-and-one at the
Lehigh 45, and lost. The Engineers took the ball and marched
55 yards in just six chances to tie
the score. Michalski's 24-yard
scoring strike to Yeager produced the TD and Ted Iobst
added the conversion.
It stayed that way until early
in the third when the Rams
struck following another interception. They took over at the
Lehigh 43 and drove to the 27
where Ralph Guerriero kicked a
field goal with the ball teed up at
the 33, a 43-yard effort, to regain
the lead at 10-7 with 11:55 left in
the period.
Lambert Cup
Week of November 10
Pts
1. LEHIGH 7-0-2 50
2. Boston U.  8-1 45
3. Delaware 7-2 39
4. Massachusetts 6-2 36
5. AIC 8-1  29
6. Connecticut 6-3 21
and Springfield 6-2 21
8. New Hampshire 6-3 18
9. Bucknell  5-4 5
and Clarion St. 7-2 5
Again the Engineers struck
back, this time as Michalski and
Yeager teamed up on two spectacular pass plays mixed in with
a face-mask infraction against
Rhode Island. First Yeager took
an aerial for 20 yards. Three
plays later he got off his sideline
route, cut across the middle and
made a 46-yard catch with two
defenders battling him for the
ball. This put the Engineers on
the R.I. 1.
Halfback Steve Plucinsky, of
Wallington, N.J., drove into the
end zone completing an 8-play,
89-yard assault. Iobst missed
the extra point but Lehigh had
its first lead of the afternoon,
13-10.
Late in the quarter, with
reserve halfback Ed Godbolt of
Bethlehem, Pa., and reserve
fullback John Ahsler of Chatham, N.J., doing some effective running, the Engineers
began a march which was to
cover 80 yards in eight plays and
produce another touchdown, the
score coming early in the
fourth.
This march was near fizzling
as Lehigh stalled at the R.I. 32,
with a fourth-and-three, but
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Game At A Glance
LEHIGH 0 7 6 10—23
Rhode Island 7 03   0—10
RI—Shaw 6 run. Guerriero kick.
L—Yeager     24     pass     from
Michalski. Iobst kick.
RI—FG Guerriero 43.
L—Plucinsky 1 run. Kick missed.
L—Plucinsky 2 run. Iobst kick.
L—FG 47 Iobst.
Attendance: 10,000
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Leh RI
First downs 18 14
Net yds. rushing  212 167
Net yds. passing  194 93
Total yards 406 260
Passes attempted 20 20
Completed 10 9
Had intercepted 3 2
Punts 4 6
Avg. distance 39 41
Fumbles 1 3
Fumbles lost 1 0
Penalties 8 4
Yds. penalized 104 66
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing                 att net avg td
Rodgers.RI  16 111   6.9 0
Shaw,RI  11   49   4.5 1
Evanko.L 13   48   3.7 0
Godbolt,L 9   41   4.6 0
Manion.L  8   37   4.6 0
Passing Att cmp int yds td
Michalski,L..20 10 3 194 1
Lynch,RI ...19     9     2      93   0
Receiving                  cgt yds td
Yeager.L 7 138 1
Tolento,RI 3 24 0
Holden.RI  2 23 0
Caizzi.RI  2 17 0
Defense: Ends—J.Kowalonek, Crowe,
Nielsen, Becker. Tackles—Titus,
Szablowski, Witte,. Linebackers—Rarig,
Mercuri, Dorrow, Rosen, Shigo, Rudisill,
Iobst, Standorf. Backs—Marck, D'Annibale,
Conley, Macellara, Tuohey, Verost,
O'Sullivan, Smith, Allwood, Mills.
Offense: Split end—Yeager. Tight ends—
Anastasio, Rogusky, Nikles. Tackles—
Scheuer, Greene, Palsgrove, Lacey.
Guards—Miksiewicz, Fath, Garris. Centers—Sitar, Morgan. Quarterback—
Michalski. Halfbacks—Rabuck, Evanko,
Godbolt, Tulskie. Fullbacks—Manion,
Ahsler. Kicker—Penske.