South Mountaineer Volume 11, Issue 10

              Harriers Win 3 Championships
(Story, Photo on Page 2)
Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 11 - No. 10
NOVEMBER 25, 1968
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
It's   LEHIGH, 21-6!
Basketball
Boosters
Plan 'Night'
There will be no issue of The
South Mountaineer next week
(Dec. 2).
Publication will resume Dec. 9
with basketball and swimming
schedules already underway.
Basketball starts Dec. 2wlthan
8 p.m. game at the University of
Pennsylvania. The quintet plays
Army at West Point, N.Y., at
4 p.m. Dec. 3, and makes its
home debut Dec. 5 in Grace Hall
against Temple. Susquehanna is
at Grace Hall Dec. 7. Both of
these  attractions are at 8 p.m.
The swimmers make their
debut Dec. 7 with a home meet
against Colgate at 2 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 5, will be
Basketball Booster Night at
Grace Hall with the Class of
1971 formally welcoming Coach
Roy Heckman and his squad and
wishing them well for the 1968-69
campaign.
At approximately 7:45 p.m.
Lehigh bandsmen, cheerleaders,
students and alumni will join in
a short program led by Prof.
John Steckbeck and Ray Snyder
'31, of the Student Relations
Committee of the Alumni Assn.
Jim Kasser, Class of 1971 president, urges all students, alumni
and friends to take part.
Other winter sports openings
include wrestling, Dec. 11 at
Yale, and hockey, Dec. 14against
Bucknell.
Grid Fete
Is Monday
Chuck Bednarik, WFIL-TV
(Philadelphia) sportscaster and
former all-pro linebacker with
the Phila. Eagles, will be the
principal speaker Monday
Dec. 2, when the Lehigh Home
Club honors the 1968 Lehigh
football squad and coaching staff.
The alumni group will tender
its usual gridiron banquet in the
Hotel Bethlehem ballroom beginning with a social hour at 6 p.m.
Bednarik, an All-American
center at the University of
Pennsylvania, is a native of
Bethlehem who now resides in
Abington, Pa. He will supplement his remarks with an unusual
film on pro linebackers entitled
"Search and Destroy."
Roger Inglese and Keith Rust
are banquet co-chairmen. Larry
Sheridan is Home Club president
and Joseph Yankovich serves as
secretary.
Lafayette Routed Before 16,000 Spectators
At Fisher Field; Best Campaign Since 1962
VICTORY RIDE for
Lehigh Coach Fred
Dunlap, on the shoulders of his jubilant
players, following
Saturday's 21-6 triumph   over  Lafayette.
JIM PETRILLO,
Lehigh tailback voted
MVP in the 104thgame
against Lafayette, also
earned a first-team
berth on the weekly
Eastern College Athletic Conference all-
star eleven for his fine
performance.
Justin Piummer, Mike Leib and
Jack Paget scored touchdowns
last Saturday as Lehigh closed out
its most successful football
season since 1962 with a 21-6
rout of favored Lafayette before
16,000 spectators at Fisher
Field.
Coach Fred Dunlap's forces
were in command throughout as
they scored the University's
most-satisfying triumph since a
17-14 victory over the same rival
seven years ago.
Lafayette (7-3) went into the
game leading the Lambert Cup
race, undefeated, untied and
unscored-upon at home, and
solidly favored to defeat Lehigh
for the third consecutive season.
Lehigh (7-3) punctured all of
those balloons with one afternoon
of hard-nosed, opportune football
during which the offensive platoon
continued a season-long effectiveness and the defense came up
with its finest performance of the
year.
Delaware, which had been
second in the Lambert Cup voting
emblematic of eastern medium-
college gridiron supremacy,
defeated Bucknell and walked off
with Lambert honors as Lehigh
killed Lafayette's chances.
The Brown and White, shrugging off Lafayette's unscored-
upon-at-home achievements, won
the opening toss and elected to
test the Leopard defense as
quickly as possible. The move
paid off, Lehigh moving 72 yards
in 14 plays to gain a 7-0 margin
before Lafayette had possession
of the football.
An all-sophomore backfield,
quarterbacked by little Jerry
Berger, did the damage behind
Lehigh's, experienced hard-
charging forward wall. Berger
was the sparkplug, completing
passes of five yards to Paul
Harrington and eight yards to Ron
Matalavage and scampering 15
yards  himself off right tackle.
Alternate tailbacks Jim
Petrillo and Jack Paget, and
fullback Plummer chipped in with
key gains and a 9-yard dart
through left guard by Petrillo put
the ball on the 1. Plummer
crashed into the end zone and
Ron Schattenberg kicked the first
of three extra points which he
contributed.
Petrillo, who emerged as the
game's leading runner with 28
carries for 98 yards, was voted
Most Valuable Player laurels by
press, radio and television
representatives covering the
contest.   Lehigh's domination of
the 104th contest, in football's
most-active rivalry, was shown
in the MVP voting.
Split end Mike Leib of the
Brown and White was second to
Petrillo with senior quarterback
Rick Laubach, who played some of
the second quarter and all of the
second half, third.
Laubach, coming back after
being sidelined by a shoulder
injury, took over for Berger late
in the second period. He led
Lehigh's two-minute drill as the
invaders fought the clock and the
Leopards in a late 62-yard
scoring drive just before the
intermission. It was a strong
surge, including Laubach's
10-yard pass to Plummer, a
12-yard romp by Petrillo on a
draw play, Paget' s 10-yard pass
Soccermen
Victorious
Dick Goat, Pete Hall and Don
Klein scored goals as Lehigh
closed its soccer season with a
3-0 shutout of Lafayette on the
Saucon Valley Fields.
The winners, coached for the
first time by Gerry Leeman,won
their last four contests to finish
6-3-2.
Goat scored first, neading a
ball into the net with an assist
from Larry Gustavson. He then
assisted on Hall's marker. Klein
rang the bell on a shot which
grazed the left post.
Lehigh controlled play
throughout with goalie Mike Galardi having to make only 10
saves. The Leopards never were
allowed   to   sustain   an   attack.
The   lineups:
LAFAYETTE
POS.
LEHIGH
Coates
G
Galardi
Kirch
RFB
Heller
Caldwell
LFB
Laitala
Van Hise
RHB
Weiler
Willis
CHB
Fetters
Dandeneau
LHB
Laubenstein
Auwerter
OR
Gustavson
Ort
IR
Goat
Land is
CF
Newton
Diment
IL
Ferrell
Fanning
OL
Hall
Lafayette
0
0    0
0     —     0
Lehigh
1
0     1
1     --     3
Goals: Goat, Hall, Klei
n. Assists:
Gustavson,
Goat.
to Harrington and a couple of
shorter gains taking the ball to
the 25.
With only 45 seconds remaining
Laubach ran wide to his left,
stopped and arched a ball to Leib
who had beaten his defender at the
goal line. The junior from Hazle-
ton, Pa., made the catch just
inside the end zone for a 14-0
advantage.
Halfway through the final
stanza, following Lafayette's lone
score, Lehigh uncorked another
9-play TD drive covering 62
yards. Laubach passed 11 yards
to Leib as this assault began
and later hit the same receiver
on a 33-yard pitch taking the ball
to the Lafayette 3. Leib made a
spectacular catch of a ball which
was deflected by a secondary
defender. Petrillo made one yard
and Paget knifed the final two off
right tackle for his 11th touchdown of the year.
Lafayette's touchdown came on
a 9-play march covering 56
yards. It appeared stalled at the
Lehigh 44 when, on fourth down
witlj 10 yards to go, quarterback
Rich McKay passed to the 27-
yard line where Bob Donofrio
grabbed the ball after it had been
deflected by two men.
On second down, after his team
had lost three yards, Bobby
Zimmers burst through right
guard and scampered 30 yards
into the end zone. This was the
only defensive breakdown of the
day which was to cost Lehigh
points.
In the second quarter, after
recovering a fumbled punt on the
Lehigh 35, the Leopards moved to
a first down on the 13 as McKay
passed to Darrell Johnson.
Zimmers made one at right guard
and McKay picked up three on a
(Continued on Page 2)
Coach's Comment
"Please give our staff, and
the players, the credit. Lehigh
had a thorough knowledge of what
to expect, how to counter it and
capitalize upon it. Everyone on
the staff, and on the squad, gave
it a one hundred percent effort."
. . . Fred Dunlap, football.