South Mountaineer Volume 25, Issue 04

              Vol. 25 — No. 4
OCTOBER 5, 1982
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Last-Play Field Goal Decides
20-19 Thriller Before 14,000
(B&W Photo by ROB WEISSTUCH)
FRESHMAN QUARTERBACK Marty Horn of Lehigh sets up against Delaware. He had another
very impressive performance and was selected ECAC 1-AA co-Rookie of the Week for the second
straight game.
ECAC Names
Horn Again
Marty Horn has been
honored by the Eastern
College Athletic Conference for the second
straight week.,
The ECAC named him
1-AA co-Player of The
Week, along with tailback
Gary Benoit of Northeastern, for his outstanding play against Delaware.
The Lehigh gridder, a
freshman from Short
Hills, N.J., also was
selected one week earlier
following his efforts
against Pennsylvania.
Game At A Glance
Lehigh University scored its
first football victory in 1885. its
second season of competition.
Delaware 3 7 0 10—20
LEHIGH 3 7 9   0-19
D—FG Knobloch 34.
L-FG Scott 33.
D—Cason  3  run.   Knobloch
kick.
L—Hunt 11 pass from Horn.
Scott kick.
L—Benn 26 pass from Horn.
Kick blocked.
L—FG Scott 27.
D—Phelan   19  pass   from
Scully. Knobloch kick.
D—FG Knobloch 24.
Attendance: 14,000
L D
First downs 23 25
Net yds. rushing 133 186
Net yds. passing 248 154
Total yards 381 340
Passes attempted 33 26
Passes completed 20 10
Had intercepted 3 0
Punts 6 7
How Lehigh Rivals Fared
Maine (2-3): Lost to Towson
St., 35-32.
Colgate (4-0): Defeated Dartmouth, 38-21.
Penn (3-0): Defeated Columbia, 51-31.
Delaware (3-1): Defeated
Lehigh, 20-19.
Connecticut (3-1): Defeated
New Hampshire, 20-17.
New Hampshire (2-2): Lost to
Connecticut, 20-17.
Bucknell (1-2): Lost to
Lafayette, 37-6.
Rhode Island (2-2): Lost to
Massachusetts, 17-7.
E.Stroudsburg (3-1): Def-
feated Kutztown, 24-0.
Lafayette (2-2): Defeated
Bucknell, 37-6.
Avg. distance 40 39
Fumbles 3 2
Fumbles lost 2 2
Penalties 11 10
Yds. penalized 108 80
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing att net avg td
Godbolt,L 19   87   4.6 0
Phelan,D 9   85   9.4 0
Titus,D 17   74   4.4 0
Cason.D  9   26   2.9 0
Ahsler.L 9   24   2.7 0
Passing        att com int yds td
Horn.L 22    15   2   208   0
Scully.D 25    10    0    154    1
Semler.L ....11     5   1     40   0
Receiving cgt yds td
Hammond.D 8 126   0
Hunt.L 7   94   1
Davidson,L 7   77   0
Benn.L  4   69   1
LEHIGH PLAYERS
Offense: Split ends—Davidson,
Benn. Tight ends—Hunt, Bradshaw.
Tackles—Greene, Joseph, J.Thompson, Bollinger. Guards—Fath, Garris,
Bear, L.Williams. Centers—Brennan,
Whitehead, Van Orden. Quarterbacks—Semler, Horn. Halfbacks—
Godbolt. LaSelva, Schreck. Fullbacks—Ahsler, Ertz. Kickers—Scott,
Melick, T.Thompson.
Defense: Ends—Kasbar, Meyers.
Theuerkauf. Ramirez. Tackles—
Yesulaitis. Crudeli, Walton.
Linebackers—Pearson, Shigo, Serra-
telli, Santangelo, Krasley, Gillespie,
Rudisill. Halfbacks—Talmadge, Isla,
Bellantoni. Safeties—Carr, O'Hagan,
Meca, Allwood.
Engineers Miss Major Upset
After Holding 19-10 Lead
For 59 minutes and 59 seconds
last Saturday the Lehigh football squad, a two-touchdown
underdog, held scoring and statistical advantages over Delaware and earned a huge
measure of respect before some
14,000 spectators in Taylor
Stadium.
On the final tick of the clock,
however, the Engineers went
down to a heart-breaking
defeat, 20-19, as the Blue Hens
came up with a 24-yard field
goal to wipe out a 19-17 Lehigh
lead.
Although they retained the
respect, the statistical edge and
proved they belonged out there
against any team on their schedule, Coach John Whitehead's
battlers —who deserved
better—had to accept one of the
most disappointing losses in
Lehigh's long football history.
Delaware, beaten only by
Temple and victorious over
Western Kentucky and Princeton, moved the ball from its
own two-yard line to the Lehigh
seven in the last 1:37 of the
game on the passing of quarterback Rick Scully to split end
Paul Hammond and a couple of
key penalties called against the
Engineers.
On first down at the 7, and
nine seconds remaining, the
Hens set up for their field goal
but a poor center snap forced
holder Bill Maley to scramble
back and throw the ball out of
the end zone.
Lehigh players, and their
rooters, went into a wild celebration believing the game was
over but the incomplete pass
had stopped the clock with one
second remaining.
Delaware set up again, the
snap was good this time and so
was K. C. Knobloch'skick, turning the result of the game
around on the last play. Earlier
Knobloch had kicked a 34-yard
field goal, missed on chances of
28 and 40 yards, and contributed
two conversions.
Jim Scott, of Boonsboro, Md.,
had a conversion try deflected
by Jim Newfrock after Lehigh's
second TD and this eventually
made the difference. Scott had
one extra point and field goals of
27 and 33 yards, the second one
giving Lehigh a 19-10 lead late in
the third period.
Scully's 19-yard scoring pass
to split end Kevin Phelan, and
the conversion, cut this lead to
19-17 in the early minutes ofthe
last quarter and pulled the Hens
within field goal range.
Lehigh's defense held Delaware twice at crucial stages of
the final quarter, forcing punts,
but the offense couldn't move
the ball and ittooktwo excellent
return kicks by Mike O'Hagan,
of Hawthorne, N.J., to keep the
Hens in poor field position. The
first, a 50-yarder, gave Delaware the ball on its own 18 and
the second was a 40-yarder
which he put out of bounds at the
Hen's two-yard line with 1:37
left.
Then came the frantic, last-
ditch Delaware drive. Five
times Scully connected with
Hammond for gains of nine, 12,
12, 13 and 29 yards.
It was a roller-coaster thriller
throughout with the teams combining for 48 first downs and 721
yards of offense, seven turnovers and 21 penalties for a total of
188 yards. Lehigh once again
handicapped itself with five of
the turnovers and 11 of the
infractions which cost the Engineers 108 yards.
Freshman quarterback
Marty Horn of Short Hills, N.J.,
coming out of the bullpen with a
hot hand for the second week in
a row, emerged as the total
offense leader of the game. He
completed 15 of 22 passes for 208
yards and two touchdowns, with
two interceptions, and added 11
running for a 219-yard
performance.
Horn got into the contest halfway through the second quarter
and had his first pass intercepted in the end zone. On the
next Lehigh possession he engineered a seven-play, 81-yard
march ending with an ll-yard
TD pass to tight end Jeff Hunt of
Nazareth, Pa., pulling the Engineers intoa 10-10 halftime draw.
On Lehigh's second possession of the third period he took
the team 80 yards in sevenplays
climaxed by a 26-yard TD pass
to freshman split end Richard
Benn, also of Short Hills, N.J.
Later in the stanza he guided
the Engineers from their own 8
to the Delaware 9 before the
attack stalled and Scott booted
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Tennis Victories
The Lehigh women's tennis
team traveled to Drexel, as part
of its fall schedule, and posted a
pair of victories.
The squad, coached by Helen
Zajac, won 8-1 over Drexel and
5-4 over Bucknell.