South Mountaineer Volume 24, Issue 10

              Vol. 24 - No. 10
NOVEMBER 17, 1981
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Lehigh, Lafayette Near 117th
Game; Both Have 8-2 Marks
Basketball
Sunday
Lehigh-Lafayette Weekend,, usually reserved for
football, will have an
added attraction this
year.
The Lehigh men's basketball squad,coached by
Brian Hill, has scheduled
an exhibition game
against McGill University, of Canada, in Grace
Hall Sunday (Nov. 22) at 2
p.m.
Lehigh opens its regular
slate Dec. 1 at Hofstra and
has its first regular home
game, in the Stabler
Athletic and Convocation
Center, Dec. 3 against
Temple.
The Engineers, coming
off a winning 14-12 season,
will feature a young squad
with the possibility that
one or two freshmen will
be in the starting lineup.
Sunday afternoon's
game against McGill
offers Hill an opportunity
to give his newcomers a
good test against one of
the bettter Canadian
squads.
MIKE WHALEN
. . . kicks 3 FGs.
Weekly Football
Award-Winners
Chris Sexton, Joe Kowalonek
and Mike Whalen are winners of
weekly coaching staff football
awards following Lehigh's victory over Northeastern last Saturday, 23-20, the Engineers'
eighth triumph in 10 starts.
The coaches review game
films, grade performances, and
select these recipients each
week.
Sexton, a halfback from Palm
Beach, Fla., who played high
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Tough Day For Top Teams
In 1-AA Football; 4 Lose
Only six of the nation's top-
ranked 1-AA football teams,
including Lehigh, escaped the
upset bug Saturday.
Here's how they fared, with
their pre-game ranking:
1. Eastern Kentucky (Ohio
Valley Conference), idle; 2.
Idaho State (Big Sky), won; 3.
South Carolina St. (Mideast-
em), won; 4. New Hampshire
(Yankee), lost; 5. Tennessee
State (independent), lost; 6.
Boise State (Big Sky), won; 7.
Jackson State (Southwest),
won; 8. LEHIGH (INDEPENDENT), won; 9. Montana (Big
Sky), lost; 10. tie: Delaware
(Independent), won, and Grambling (Southwest), lost.
Unranked Rhode Island
defeated Connecticut, while
Massachusetts was downing
New Hampshire, to share the
Yankee Conference title with
the Minutemen. URI then was
awarded the Yankee Conference automatic playoff berth
having beaten UMass during
the season.
New Hampshire (7-3) and
Massachusetts (6-3) become at-
large candidates for a playoff
invitation.
An NCAA committee ranks
the l-AA teams each Tuesday,
too late for publication in The
South Mountaineer which goes to
press Monday.
Playoff invitations go to
champions of five conferences
(Yankee, Ohio Valley, Mideast-
ern, Southwestern and Big
Sky), the top-ranked national
independent, and two at-large
teams selected by the NCAA.
The at-large choices may be
conference members or
independents.
Action is scheduled Dec. 5 and
Dec. 12, at campus sites, with
the two survivors meeting Dec.
19 in the Pioneer Bowl at
Wichita Falls, Tex., for the 1-AA
national championship.
Lehigh has informed the
NCAA that it will participate if
invited, and will host a game if
requested to do so.
Engineers Keep Play off Hopes Alive
With 23-20 Victory At Northeastern
Lehigh's hopes of a postseason playoff invitation were
bolstered last weekend as the
Engineers turned back stubborn Northeastern at Brookline,
Mass., 23-20, for their eighth triumph against two defeats.
Coach John Whitehead's footballers complete their regular
schedule Saturday at home
against arch-rival Lafayette.
The kickoff is at noon and the
contest has officially been
declared sold out.
Lafayette also is 8-2 following
a rout of Kings Point and some
19,200 fans who've purchased
tickets seem assured of an outstanding attraction, the best in
many years of this most-played
series in college football.
It will be game No. 117
between the Engineers and the
Leopards who first tangled in
1884. Early in the series the
teams met twice, or even three
times, a year.
The triumph over Northeastern, which found Lehigh piling up a big statistical
advantage but unable to reflect
this in the scoring, took on
added significance as Tennessee State and New Hampshire
were defeated.
New Hampshire (7-3) now is
battling the Engineers for an at-
large playoff berth following a
20-9 loss at the hands of
Massachusetts.
Rhode Island (6-4) downed
Connecticut 34-29 to finish in a
tie with UMass (6-3) for top spot
in the Yankee Conference and,
having beaten the Minutemen
during the season, was awarded
the automatic playoff position.
Tennessee State (8-2) bowed
to 1-A rival Tennessee-Chattanooga 28-9 in its bid to remain
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the top-ranked independent and
get the automatic playoff bid
that goes with that achievement.
Lehigh, which had hoped for a
victory while New Hampshire
and Tennessee State lost,
almost didn'ttake advantage of
the situation. The Engineers
didn't have a real fun trip to
Parsons Field in the Boston
area. The artificial surface was
rock-like, the weather was cold
and blustery and the officiating
only added to the excitement,
not the enjoyment, of the trip.
Two passes from quarterback
Larry Michalski of Pittsburgh,
Pa., to split end Dan Ryan of
Guilderland, N.Y., one for 20
Lambert Cup
Pts
1. LEHIGH 8-2 46
2. Shippensburg 10-0 45
3. Delaware 7-2 42
4. Lafayette 8-2 37
5. Massachusetts 6-3 25
6. W. Chester 8-2 23
7. Rhode Island 6-4 22
8. Millersville 8-2 17
9. New Hamp. 7-3 13
10. Boston U. 5-5 4
yards and the other for 52, both
resulted in sensational catches
deep in the end zone with Ryan
being declared out of bounds
both times.
One that was allowed, a 32-
yard strike in the second period,
gave Lehigh the lead for the
first time in the game as the
Engineers pulled into a 10-3
halftime advantage. This was a
1-AA record-setter, being
Ryan's 14th TD catch of the season, and topping a mark of 13
which he shared with Trumaine
Johnson of Grambling (1980).
The Engineers battled the elements, and frustration, all the
way and it appeared late in the
game that victory just wasn't to
be despite a wide statistical
edge.
On their first possession they
marched all the way to the
Northeastern 4-yard line before
giving up the ball on downs, and
the Huskies later settled for a
3-0 lead when Geoff Hart kicked
a 27-yard field goal after an
interception return had put the
ball on the Lehigh 21 and a line
smash had taken it to the 6.
A big defensive play by Dave
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Game At A Glance
LEHIGH 0 10   3 10-23
Northeastern .. .3   0 10   7—20
N—FG 27 Hart.
L—Ryan 32 pass from
Michalski. Whalen kick.
L-FG 19 Whalen.
N—Uhlman 70 pass from Pre-
bles. Hart kick.
L—FG 37 Whalen.
N—FG 44 Snow.
L—Sexton 3 run. Whalen kick.
N—Mitjans 55 int. return.
Hart kick.
L-FG 26 Whalen.
Attendance: 3,240
Leh NE
First downs 29 12
Net yds. rushing 325 62
Net yds. passing 236 195
Total yards 561 257
Passes attempted 36 25
Passes completed 21 14
Had intercepted 2 1
Punts 2 6
Avg. distance 35 36
Fumbles 5 2
Fumbles lost 3 2
Penalties 5 1
Yds. penalized 30 5
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing             att yds avg td
Godbolt.L 16 113   7.1 0
Sexton.L 14 105   7.5 1
Mitchell.N 12   43   3.6 0
Tulskie.L 3   35 11.7 0
Ahsler.L 9   31   3.4 0
Passing att com int yds td
Michalski.L .. .36 21 2 236 1
Prebles.N 25 14   1   195   1
Receiving                ct yds td
Ryan,L 5 68 1
Anastasio,L 4 55 0
LaFreniere.N 4 47 0
Nikles.L 4 44 0
Mitchell.N 4 12 0
LEHIGH PLAYERS
Defense:   Ends   —  J.Kowalonek,
Nielsen,   Meyers.   Tackles  —  Szablowski, Becker, Crudeli. Linebackers
— Rosen, Shigo, Pearson, Rudisill,
Graziano, Krasley. Backs — Mecca,
Tuohey, Macellara, P.Smith, Isla,
Trinkle, Gum, O'Hagan, Talmadge,
Carr.
Offense: Splitends —Ryan, T,Kowalonek, Whalen. Tight ends — Anastasio, Nikles, Hunt. Tackles — Greene,
Joseph, Hynes, Lacey. Guards —
Miller, Fath, Morgan, Garris. Centers
— Sitar, Brennan. Quarterback —
Michalski. Halfbacks — Rabuck, Godbolt, Tulskie, Sexton, Heffner.
Fullbacks — Ahsler, Manion.