South Mountaineer Volume 40, Issue 10

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Olympic Sports Report
Service Electric, Ch. 2, Thursday 7:30p.m
This Week: Field hockey and Golf	
SOCCER:
Men clinch playoff berth
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FOOTBALL:    Team balances academics and athletics
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STATISTICS:   The season's complete scores
South Mountaineer
Volume 11, Issue 10
Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
October 28,1997
Football
Lehigh ends "The Streak"
Dartmouth's 22-game unbeaten string comes to an end
by Glenn Hofmann
Director of Sports Communications
All week long there was talk about
Dartmouth's 22-game unbeaten
streak which was the longest in the
country and second longest in
Division I-AA history.
All week long Lehigh talked about
wanting to end the streak and about
wanting to watch ESPN's Chris
Fowler announce the score on that
network's college football roundup.
Lehigh got its wish Saturday night
after a very impressive 46-26 victory
over the Big Green on a raw Saturday
afternoon in Hanover, NH.
All night Saturday everyone in
Bethlehem and surely Hanover were
talking about what happened on the
Memorial Field turf.
What happened was that the
Lehigh offense continued to play at a
masterfully high level.
"The play of our offense is really
improved over the last couple of
weeks," an elated head coach Kevin
Higgins said after the game. "Our
quarterback is making great decisions
at the line of scrimmage. Our
receivers are stepping up and making
catches at critical times."
And the Lehigh running game is
on the move. Coming into the game
no team had rushed for 100 yards
against the Big Green. Senior Rabih
Abdullah passed that mark himself.
Abdullah rushed for 186 yards,
setting as new Lehigh career rushing
record. He surpassed the mark
previously held by Rod Gardner.
Abdullah has now gained 3,194 yards
in his Lehigh career and this
performance ranked right up there
with many of his others. He also
scored four touchdowns for the
Abdullah became Lehigh's All-Time leading rusher with
second time this season and third time in
his career.
"Our offensive line took this game real
personally," Abdullah said. "They went
out and opened a lot of holes. I think
coming into the game Dartmouth was
giving up only 48 yards a game. I took
that personal and was not going to let
myself be held to that."
While the offensive line was opening
up big holes for Abdullah, sophomore
quarterback Phil Stambaugh was
throwing darts all over the field. For the
day Stambaugh completed 27-of-37 passes
for 272 yards and one touchdown. Even
more impressive is that several times
Stambaugh threw completions to his
second and third receivers. He has
certainly come of age. In fact since the
first half of the Colgate game Stambaugh
has completed 70% of his passes for 1,120
yards, nine touchdowns and only one
interception.
Junior Joe Falzone led Lehigh with
eight catches as he was one of seven
players to be on the receiving end of a
Stambaugh pass.
3,194 yards
credit: Joe Ryan
And defensively Lehigh again
stiffened in the second half
allowing the Big Green only one
third quarter touchdown. Junior
Sam Brinley had two interceptions
and in all Lehigh forced five
Dartmouth turnovers.
For all of the heroics this game
was close through three quarters
as Dartmouth led 26-25. But in the
fourth quarter Lehigh made the
big plays scoring 21 unanswered
points. The biggest play may have
been on fourth down with under
eight minutes remaining and
Lehigh up 33-26.
At the Dartmouth 32-yard line
Lehigh was faced with a fourth
and 11. Coach Higgins elected to
go   for the first down and
Stambaugh completed the pass to
junior tight end R.J. Ryan for the
first down. Three plays later
Abdullah scored on a 12-yard
scamper and Lehigh had increased
its lead to 39-26.
1997 Football Schedule
Sept. 13
at Fordham
L, 35-42
Sept. 20
at Towson State
W, 16-14
Sept. 27
HARVARD
% L, 28-35
Oct. 4
at Colgate
L, 28-61
Oct. 11
PENNSYLVANIA
W, 24-7
Oct. 18
at Hofstra
L, 38-45
Oct. 25
at Dartmouth
W 46-26
Nov.l
at Bucknell ■gM™L-rr
12:30
Nov. 8
HOLY CROSS
12:30
Nov. 15
DELAWARE
12:30
Nov. 22
LAFAYETTE "graT
12:30
Upcoming Satellite
Coordinate Info:
Bucknell Game
KU Band, Telestar 5,
Transponder 12
Lafayette Game
KUBand
SBS6
Transponder 11
C-Band
Galaxy 3R
Transponder 18
Lehigh/Dartmouth
Game Stats
Score By Quarters
1     2     3     4     F
LU(3-4)       14   8     3     21   46
DC(5-1)       10   9     7     0     26
LEHIGH DC
26 First Downs 15
178 Net Rushing 113
272 Net Passing 114
450 Total Yards 227
5-48 Penalties 5-55
2/0 Fumbles/Lost 3/2
3 Interception By 1
31:40 Possession 28:20
1 Sacks by 5
Game Leaders
Rushing:
L: Adullah 32-186, Jean 2-6
D: Karczewski 22-64, Corso 7-33
Passing:
L: Stambaugh 27-37-272,1TD
D: Sellers 11 -26-114,1 TD
Receiving:
L: Falzone 8-97, Fedorcha 6-32,
Baker 3-48, Braswell 3-39
D: Morton 4-42, Ellis 3-53
Tackles:
L: Brinley 12, Kmieciak 9
D:Walz 13, Jefferson 12
Patriot League Summary
Last Week:
Lehigh 46 Dartmouth 26
Army 35 Colgate 27
Bucknell 18 Holy Cross 6
Lafayette 38 Towson 0
Cornell 45 Fordham 13
This Week:
LEHIGH at Bucknell
Colgate at Holy Cross
Towson at Fordham
New Haven at Lafayette
Standings:
Colgate
Bucknell
Holy Cross
Fordham
LEHIGH
Lafayette
Towson
League
3-0
3-0
1-1
2-2
1-2
1-3
0-3
Overall
4-2
7-0
3-4
2-6
3-4
2-6
2-5