South Mountaineer Volume 18, Issue 03

              (Brown and White photo by PETER  HAUSER)
HALFBACK MARK WEAVER, of Lehigh, stretches to catch go-ahead touchdown pass with 1:42 remaining
Vol. 18 — No. 3
SEPTEMBER 30, 1975
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Engineers Overtake Penn
In Fourth Quarter, 34-23
An explosive Lehigh team,.
refusing to buckle under the
weight of frustrating penalties
and turnovers, put it all together
in the fourth quarter last
Saturday to shatter one of the
most persistent jinxes in
collegiate football.
The Engineers whipped
Peensylvania, 34-23, coming from
behind with three touchdowns in
the last seven minutes and 43
seconds to delight a Taylor
Stadium turnout of 14,000 spectators.
It was Lehigh's first victory
over the Quakers since 1889 when
touchdowns counted four points,
Benjamin Harrison was
president, and the Engineers
were still three years away from
hiring J. A. Harwell of Yale as
their first coach.
Students ran the football show
from 1884, the first season,
through 1891. Fred Dunlap, the
current mentor, therefore
becomes the first full-fledged
Lehigh coach ever to walk off the
gridiron with a Penn victory
under his arm.
In the period 1889, through 1974,
the Quakers picked on the
Engineers for 34 straight
triumphs. The only respite for
Lehigh was a couple of breaks in
the series, from 1907 through 1928
and from 1933 through 1963.
Lehigh had come close several
times recently but at the final
whistle it always was the Penn
contingent which rushed to the
nearest parties with the most
enthusiasm.
Engineer rooters were beginning to believe that somewhere,
in the agate type of the official
book of rules covering football,
there was one which made it
illegal for Lehigh to beat Penn.
Saturday, as the Quakers tried
for their 35th in a row at the
Engineers' expense, the gremlins
worked overtime again to make
things difficult for the Brown and
White.
Dunlap's over-eager forces
handicapped themselves repeatedly during the first three
quarters with penalties, and for
good measure chipped in with
two lost fumbles and three pass
interceptions, enabling an out
played Penn team to build up a
23-13 advantage.
Lehigh was winning the battle
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Game At A Glance
Deserved Victory — Dunlap
"This was a big, big victory for our team, and for our football
program at Lehigh," says Head Coach Fred Dunlap.
"I was particularly proud of the way they came back in that
fourth quarter. They kept plugging even after all of those
penalties, the fumbles and the interceptions . They just wouldn't
quit.
"The defense, which hadn't been all we expected it to be
against the first two opponents, did a first rate job.
"In that last quarter.when we had cut Penn's lead to 27-23 and
had a chance to pull it out, we needed the ball again and the
defense got it for us.
"The offense had trouble with its timing and positioning.
Maybe everyone was just a little too anxious.
"It was a superb effort on the players' part and they more
than deserved to win the game," he concluded.
Pennsylvania 7   6 10   0—23
Lehigh 0 13   0 21—34
P—Renfrow  33   run.   (Mazzetti
kick)
L—FG 47 Weaver.
P—FG 28 Mazzetti.
L—Aprill 17 pass from Sterrett.
(Weaver kick)
P—FG 42 Mazzetti.
L—FG 31 Weaver.
P—FG 37 Mazzetti.
P—Wixted 19 run.   (Mazzetti
kick)
L—Weaver 9 run. (Pierog kick)
L—Weaver 11 pass from Sterrett.
(Pierog kick)
L—Aprill, fumble recovery in end
zone. (Pierog kick)
Attendance—14,000
Leh.   Penn
First downs 26 9
Net yds rushing 334 233
Net yds passing 142 58
Total yards 476 291
Passes attempted 32 12
Completed 15 6
Intercepted by 1 3
Punts 5 8
Avg. distance 41 37
Fumbles lost 2 1
Yards penalized 110 53
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing Att Yds Avg Td
Wixted, P 21   200   9.5   1
Gardner, L 22   127   5.8   0
Weaver,L 18   107   5.9   1
Aprill, L 10     61   6.1   1
Passing Att Comp Yds Td
Sterrett, L 32   15   142   2
Graustein, P 12    6    58   0
Receiving No Yds Td
Gardner, L 5   38   0
Aprill, L 3   39   1
Weaver, L 3   19   1
Kellogg, P 3   13   0
LEHIGH PLAYERS:
ENDS: Henshaw, Liptak, Ross, Frederick,
Lynch, Pieczynski, Camuti, Skola.
TACKLES:   Orcutt,  Yaszemski,   Fendryk,
McKinney,   Matics,   Vandergrift,   Matt,
Martin.
GUARDS:   Schulze,  Stine,  Giordani,   Don-
dero, Sonon.
CENTERS:  Borgosz, McKay.
QUARTERBACKS: Sterrett, Rieker.
HALFBACKS: Weaver, Aprill, Dutt, Kelly,
Hogg, Tracy, Fenton, Armstrong, Pierog,
Reese, Borden, Glasbrenner, Diorio.
FULLBACKS:  Gardner, Clark, Gallagher.
LINEBACKERS: Mullane, Healy,
Drusbosky, Gift, Bradley.