South Mountaineer Volume 15, Issue 08

              Vol. 15 — No. 8
OCTOBER 31, 1972
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Gettysburg Stuns Lehigh, 30-28,
On Field Goal With 0:27 Left
Hopes Fade
For Winning
72 Season
Lehigh's hopes of a second
straight winning football season
were pushed to the brink
Saturday as an inspired Gettysburg eleven shocked the
Engineers at the battleground,
30-28, on a field goal in the last 27
seconds.
The Bullets, after losing an
early 13-0 lead, overcame deficits
of 21-13, 28-21 and 28-27 to get the
victory. They scored the last 10
points of the game before a rain-
splattered Homecoming Day
turnout of 4,400.
Lehigh (3-5) now must win its
final three starts against Colgate,
Rochester and Lafayette to climb
above the .500 mark. Colgate is
Saturday's foe, at Hamilton,
N.Y., and the Red Raiders will be
solid favorites.
Gettysburg (2-4) stunned the
Engineers on the passing of
quarterback John Yocum, the
receiving of flanker Tom Groves,
clutch defensive plays led by
linebacker Jack Ludes, and the
placekicking of Joe Pinkos.
It was Pinkos who put one
through the uprights from the 16-
yard stripe on a third down
maneuver with only 27 seconds
remaining. He was credited with
a 26-yard kick.
Lehigh lost a game for the
second straight week in which
each team put four touchdowns
on the board and a field goal
determined the winner. Penn
turned the trick at Taylor
Stadium, 30-27.
Quarterback Kim McQuilken
had another 200-yard day for
Lehigh, 220 to be precise, on 13
completions in 32 attempts with
one interception and one touchdown. Yocum connected on 16 of
32 for 213 yards and three scores,
with two interceptions.
Lehigh outgained the Bullets on
the ground, 165-87, and led 385-300
in total yards. The Engineers
were plagued by penalties,
however, picking up eight for 104
yards, and a few of them were
exceedingly costly.
All three of Yocum's TD tosses
were gathered in by Groves, a
speedy flanker with the knack of
getting loose. They came on plays
covering 38 yards (twice) and
seven yards. McQuilken's score
was a 41-yarder to Bill Schlegel of
Troy, N.Y., who caught four
aerials for 115 yards. Groves
snagged six for 113.
Each of Yocum's interceptions
resulted in Lehigh TDs. The first
was picked  off  by  linebacker
GETTYSBURG quarterback John Yocum runs an option play against Lehigh. Larry Warren (63) of
the Engineers angles over to cut him down. Yocum's passing highlighted Bullets' 30-28 upset victory.
Runners Win At Canisius
Lehigh's cross country runners
climaxed a successful week
Saturday with a first-place finish
in the annual Canisius Invitational at Buffalo, N.Y.
Coach John Covert's squad was
charged with 63 points to pace a
21-school field.  Pittsburgh was"
second with 66.
Dave  Antognoli  of  Edinboro
College took individual laurels in
21:51.8 followed by Wayne
Rogers of Lehigh, and
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 22:10.
Other Engineers to place included Tim Steele of Denville,
N.J., ninth; Rick Bourie of
Springfield, Mass., 15th; Jim
Barnes of Denville, 18th, and
Brian Faraci of Haverstraw,
N.Y., 19th.
Two hundred and fifty runners
participated in the meet at
Delaware Park, a 4.8 mile
course.
Earlier in the week Lehigh
crushed Gettysburg on the
Saucon Valley Fields, 16-47, with
Rogers, Barnes, Bourie and
Steele sharing first place clocked
in 25:51 for the 5-mile distance.
Larry Warren, of White Plains,
N.Y., who returned it five yards
to      the      Gettysburg      38.
McQuilken's 21-yard pass  to
Game At A Glance
Leh.
Gbg.
First downs
17
19
Net yds rushing
165
87
Net yds passing
220
213
Total yards
385
300
Passes att'pted
3f
32
Completed
13
16
Intercepted by
2
1
Punts
n
7
Avg. distance
34
34
Fumbles lost
0
1
Yds. penalized
104
31
Rushing       att
yds
avg
Farrell, L   13
81
6.2
Ruppert,L   17
63
3.7
Hall, G         15
38
2.5
McDon, L    10
30
3.0
Passing       att      comp    yds     TD
McQ.,L.      32       13 220     1
Yocum, G.   32      16 213     3
Receiving caught yds TD
Groves, G        6 It 3 3
Cook, G             5 59 0
Schlegel, L      4 .115 1
McDon., L        4 54 0
GETTYSBURG
Ends—Cook, Pearsall, Carothers,
Ignatuk, Verdirame, Carozza, T. Behr.
Tackles—Brennan, Phillips, Rock,
Johnson, Royal, McCarl, Watkins.
Guards—Hinde,       Gillis,       Bergdale,
Malewicki.
Linebackers—Ludes, Shay, Freedman,
Bowman.
Backs—Yocum, Cameron, Hall, Groves,
Reinhard, Fields, Kintzing, Hetrick, G.
Behr, Ayers, Kozel, Duffey, Pinkos.
LEHIGH
Ends—Schlegel, Liedtke, Coffman, L.
Johnson, Lechner, Howard, Gielen,
Maddox.
Tackles—Mulholland, Case, Marti,
Benfield, Willey.
Guards—Derwin, Purdy, Kress, Bigach.
Centers—Abeltin, Merolla.
Linebackers—C. Smith, McFillin,
Warren, Von Bergen, Emper, Barth, Gift,
Barton.
Backs—McQuilken, Farrell, McDonough, Handschue, Alleva, Rhoads,
Ruppert, Kail, Bowers, Mitravich,
Mullane, Stucky.
LEHIGH     ...0   14   7    7—28
G-BURG  .13    0   0   17—30
Get^Groves 38 pass from Yocum. Kick
failed.
Get^-Groves 7 pass from Yocum. Pinkos
kick.
Leh—McDonough 1 run. Merolla kick.
Leh—Schlegel 41 pass from McQuilken.
Merolla kick.
Leh—McDonough 19 run. Merolla kick.
Get^-Hall 1 run. Groves pass from Yocum.
Leh—Ruppert 9 run. Merolla kick.
Getr—Groves 38 pass from Yocum. Pass
failed.
Get^FG 26 Pinkos.
Attendance—4,400.
fullback Tim McDonough, of
South Orange, N.J., spearheaded
the scoring drive with McDonough eventually plowing
across from the one.
Linebacker Chuck Smith, of
Westfield, N.J., intercepted the
second and ran 24 yards to the
Bullet 9 in the last quarter.
Tailback Dan Ruppert, of Mid-
dletown, N.Y., burst through
center and went into the end zone
on a first down play from that
position.
This TD recaptured the lead for
Lehigh, 28-21, halfway through
the quarter.
Between those touchdowns the
Engineers hung up two others on
marches of 60 and 56 yards, each
time after a punt.
McQuilken's 41-yard toss to
Schlegel accounted for one of
these scores and McDonough's
19-yard dash off left end provided
the other. Chuck Merolla converted after each touchdown.
Gettysburg, which started
strong with 13 points in the
opening period, registered these
on drives covering 75 and 63
yards. The Bullets lost the ball on
a fumble during their first drive
but a penalty against Lehigh
nullified the recovery. They
benefited from a 27-yard pass
interference infraction during the
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Frosh Eleven
18-0 Victor
Over Bisons
Bill Connors, of Mechanic-
sburg, Pa., drove two yards for a
touchdown and returned a punt 60
yards for another Saturday as
Lehigh's freshman football team
upset Bucknell in Taylor
Stadium, 18-0.
Bob Liptak, of Yonkers, N.Y.,
raced 91 yards on a punt return
for the other Little Engineer
tally.
Lehigh (2-2) has allowed only
Gettysburg to cross its goal line
in four starts. The Bullets won 27-
14. East Stroudsburg and
Bucknell were whitewashed and
Rutgers squeezed out a 2-0 victory on a safety.
Connors' first touchdown
culminated a 56-yard march. The
entire game, a Freshman
Parents Weekend attraction, was
played in the rain.
LEHIGH FR 0   6   6   6—18
BUCKNELL FR 0   0   0   0—0
Leh—Liptak 91 punt return. Kick failed.
Leh—Connors 2 run. Kick failed.
Leh—Connors 60 punt return. Kick
failed.
No Seats
On The 50
Lehigh alumni planning
to attend the football game
with Lafayette, Saturday,
Nov. 18, in Easton, will this
year be seated on the
Lafayette side at Fisher
Field.
This arrangement
became necessary when
2,500 seats from the upper
sections of the permanent
stands on the visitors' side
were eliminated due to
construction of a field
house in that area, and
there is no room for temporary seating.
Lehigh alumni have been
alloted 5,170 seats in four
sections of the stadium on
the home side. All of these
seats are between the 30-
yard line and goal line.
There will be 2,700
Lehigh student tickets
available in the remaining
lower section of the
visitors' side where the
Lehigh band also will be
seated.
Fisher Field's capacity
has been reduced to 14,682.