South Mountaineer Volume 16, Issue 01

              Vol. 16 No. 1
BETHLEHEM, PA.
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Gridmen Whip Hofstra In^©^>ener
VETERANS Bruce Pohlot (73) and Larry Warren (63) smother Hofstra runner as sophomore Ron
Ross (80) comes up to lend a hand. The Lehigh defense limited the Dutchmen to less than 100 yards in
registering shutout, 49-0. A more severe test of the new 4-3 front is expected Saturday against Connecticut.
Covert Enjoys 61-11 Record
As LU Cross Country Coach
John Covert, Buffalo State '53,
has to be recognized as one of the
nation's most outstanding cross
country coaches.
In six seasons his Lehigh teams
have compiled a 61-11 mark with
four IC4A and four Middle
Atlantic Conference team
championships. The Engineers
are defending titlists in IC4A,
Middle Atlantic and Canisius
Invitational events.
As a matter of fact Lehigh is
working on a string of 37 consecutive triumphs against Middle
Atlantic Conference competition
in duals, triangulars and-or
quadrangulars. Covert lost his
first—and      only      conference
meet—in 1967 to Delaware.
Thirty-seven league rivals, including Delaware five times,
have toppled before the
Engineers since that opening
loss.
Last season the record stood at
10-3 and that was a bad year for
Covert.
Only Pennsylvania's powerful
runners, perennial Ivy League
stars, have been an impossible
problem. The Quakers are 6-0
against Covert's teams and they
cost Lehigh undefeated and
untied seasons in 1969, 1970 and
1971.
Covert has a 46-1 record
against   college   division   com-
Swedish Runner Expected
To Break Lehigh Records
petition and a 15-10 mark against
major opponents such as Penn,
Rutgers, Fordham, Temple,
Columbia, LaSalle, NYU, St.
Joseph's and Princeton. He
began his coaching career at
Camp Pendleton, Calif., while an
officer in the Marine Corps,
moved to Gowanda, N.Y., High
School in 1956 and to Ossining,
N.Y., High in 1957 before coming
to Lehigh 10 years later.
The 43-year-old mentor was
selected by the AAU to coach an
all-star American track team in
Barbados during 1971 and in 1972
he took a Lehigh University team
there for a successful 10-day
conditioning trip during spring
vacation. The Engineers upset a
Barbados national all-star squad
during the visit.
Six freshmen and seven
sophomores are included on
Lehigh's 17-man varsity roster in
what might be tabbed a
rebuilding year. The Engineers
will be young but that may not be
a genuine handicap. Coach John
Covert has a magic touch which
has lured an extremely potent
crop of distance runners onto the
Lehigh campus since he arrived
here in 1967.
Co-captains Wayne Rogers, of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Jim
Barnes, of Denville, N. J., are the
key returning lettermen. Others
are Rick Bourie of Springfield,
Mass., Dave Cope of Fogelsville,
Pa., and Brian Faraci of
Haverstraw, N. Y. Tim Steele of
Denville, and Mike Strockbine of
Commack, N. Y., were 1972 co-
captains and veterans of title-
winning teams who'll be most
difficult to replace.
This fall's array of new talent is
led by Stellan Thoren, 800-meter
national junior champion from
Sweden, and Mickey Yardis of
Chappaqua, N. Y., runnerup in
New York state 2-mile title tests.
Thoren, an exchange student,
spent last year in Florida and
smashed every record he came
up against. According to Covert
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McQuilken Has Big Day
With 4 Touchdown Passes;
New Defense Gets Shutout
Lehigh put 28 points on the
board before surrendering a first
down Saturday enroute to an
impressive opening football
victory over Hofstra at Hempstead, N. Y., 49-0.
Some 5,500 spectators watched
the Engineers take charge from
the first kickoff as Coach Fred
Dunlap's tough and experienced
offensive and defensive units
dominated every minute of action.
Quarterback Kim McQuilken
and tight end Bill Schlegel had
the kind of day expected of two
veterans selected to the college
division 3rd-team All American
last year by Associated Press.
McQuilken completed 14 of 21
passes for 227 yards and four
touchdowns, the first time he
ever threw more than two scoring
aerials in one contest. Schlegel
was on the receiving end of seven
passes for 126 yards and two TDs.
Split end Norman Liedtke and
wingback Bobby Handschue also
snagged touchdown tosses.
Dunlap used his starters only
slightly more than half the game
and they certainly didn't work as
hard on Long Island as they had
during recent heat wave practice
sessions on the Saucon Valley
Fields.
McQuilken, who rewrites the
Lehigh record book every time he
completes a pass, now has career
totals of 334 completions in 620
attempts for 4,620 yards and 22
TDs in 23 contests.
The Flying Dutchmen of
Hofstra were far over-matched
offensively and defensively.
Dunlap could've doubled the
score had he allowed his first
units to remain on the field much
longer than they did.
Lehigh drove 58 yards in 12
plays for its first score, aided by
a 15-yard facemask infraction
against the-        Dutchmen.
McQuilken fired 13 yards to
Liedtke during this surge, putting
the Engineers into scoring
position, and 12 yards to Hand-
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Uconns Next
For Lehigh 11
Lehigh and Connecticut, a
couple of football teams who split
a pair of games right after World
War 2 and have waited a long
time to play off the tie, clash for
the third time Saturday, Sept. 15,
at Storrs, Conn., with the kickoff
scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
Lehigh downed the Uconns 10-0
in 1946 after losing to them one
year earlier, 33-6. That was the
start and finish of the brief series
until this season.
Saturday's (Sept. 15) game will
be the opener for Connecticut.
The Engineers, coached for the
ninth year by Fred Dunlap, have
a veteran squad led by quarterback Kim McQuilken of
Allentown, and tight end Bill
Schlegel of Troy, N. Y. Both were
named to the Associated Press
3rd team Ail-American in 1972.
Tough Game Against Scots
Indicates Improved Soccer
JOHN COVERT
Lehigh soccermen went all the
way to the Middle Atlantic
Conference championship in 1971,
winning 2-1 over Temple in the
title finale.
Last season, beset with a rash
of crippling injuries and assorted
misfortunes, they dropped to a 5-8
and Coach Tom Fleck experienced an unhappy fall.
It's 1973 now and Fleck hopes
his team's fortunes are on the
rise again. He may find out Sept.
26 when the Engineers open up
against Muhlenberg on the
Saucon Valley Fields.
Lehigh dropped six of its first
seven starts last season before
turning around and winning four
of the last six, the final three in a
row over Lafayette, Swarthmore
and Bucknell.
Last July the Engineers made
a special appearance in the
Saucon Valley "bowl" against a
crackerjack squad of junior
amateur all-stars from Ayrshire,
Scotland. The highly-favored
visitors won as expected, but not
by the margin that was expected.
It was 2-1 with Lehigh playing
very impressively all the way.
The Ayrshire youngsters
played five games during a visit
to the United States, staying on
the Lehigh campus, and were
extended only by the Engineers
as they registered five victories.
Fleck, and Lehigh's fans, liked
what they saw as their favorites
put up a tremendous battle.
"We showed that we can play
the game," said Fleck. "I only
hope we continue to play that way
during our collegiate schedule."