South Mountaineer Volume 18, Issue 01

              Vol. 18 — No. 1
SEPTEMBER 16, 1975
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Gridders  Win  27-18  In  Opener
Navy First
Soccer Foe
Saturday
Lehigh soccermen open their
season Saturday (Sept. 20)
hosting Navy on the Saucon
Valley Fields at 2 p.m.
This marks the beginning of
Tom Fleck's seventh campaign
as head coach. In the previous six
years he produced four winning
seasons and a cumulative record
of 45 victories, 32 defeats and four
draws.
Last year was one of the losers
as the Engineers slipped below
the .500 mark at 5-7-2 during a
disappointing fall in which a rash
of injuries helped nullify early-
season optimism.
Fleck, one of the busiest and
successful promoters of soccer in
the eastern area, hopes for a
better break from the fates this
year. He feels he has the material
for a representative team if his
key man can steer clear of the
problems which befell them in
1974.
Lehigh plays a strong schedule
including among its opponents
Navy, Pennsylvania and Hartwick, three teams which usually
bid for national ranking, in addition to a tough East Coast
Conference slate.
LU Women
Near Debut
The women's athletic program
at Lehigh begins another season
Thursday (Sept. 18) as coach
Helen Bond's field hockey team
travels to face Delaware Valley
College at 4:15 p.m.
Volleyball, the other fall activity, begins Nov. 4 with a match
at Centenary College. Barbara
Everhart directs this Lehigh
squad.
These are two of six women's
varsity sports. Others are
swimming and basketball in the
winter, lacrosse and tennis in the
spring. In addition there is a
varied program of club and intramural athletics.
Last year the women compiled
a winning 21-19 record and the
tennis team (8-0) led all varsity
sports at the University..
LARRY HENSHAW, star of Lehigh's victory over Millersville, makes
catch and starts dash to end zone. Play covered 70 yards and resulted
in the second of three touchdowns he scored.
Runners Face Rider,
Delaware Friday
Lehigh opens its cross country
schedule against Delaware and
Rider Friday (Sept. 19), at Rider,
and the event will enable John
Covert to reach the century mark
in collegiate coaching ranks.
Covert, one of the nation's most
respected and successful cross
country mentors, will be starting
his ninth season with the
Engineers and already he has
accumulated 84 victories against
only 15 defeats. His winning
percentage stands at .848 after 99
meets.
His record at Lehigh has been
phenomenal.
His first season (1967) was his
worst one and that produced an 8-
3 mark. Succeeding campaigns
ended 12-2,10-1,11-1,10-1,10-3, 10-
3 and last year's total of 13-1.
In the last six seasons the
Engineers have won five IC4A
college division team championships and five conference
titles.
Covert's record is 61-2 against
college division rivals, which is
Lehigh's bracket, and 23-13
against   major   schools   like
Pennsylvania,   Manhattan   and
Army.
The Engineer harriers make
only one local appearance,
hosting a Lehigh invitational
cross country meet on the Saucon
Valley Fields Oct. 25. All other
competition is on the road.
South Mt. Distribution
The South Mountaineer is being
sent to alumni via different
classes of mail beginning this
fall.
The decision, caused by rising
costs, was made by the directors
of the Alumni Assn. at the spring
meeting and announced by Jim
Niemeyer,   executive   director.
Tlie Mountaineer will continue
to be sent at no charge to alumni,
upon a request to the Alumni
Office. The standard method of
delivery, however, is non-profit
(third class) mail.
Alumni wishing to receive it via
first class mail should remit $4
for 1975-76. The rate for foreign
airmail will be $7.
Mickey Yardis and Dave Cope
paced the Lehigh "A" team to
first place in the college division,
and fifth place overall, in Sunday's Boardwalk Relays at
Atlantic City. Other members of
this quartet were Charles
Sumrell and Dave Norris.
The Phila. Pioneer Club was
first followed by three other top
athletic club units before Lehigh
led the collegians who had 26
teams in the meet.
This is a 16-mile grind with
each man running four miles.
The Pioneers' winning time was
one hour, 17 minutes and 47
seconds.
The Lehigh "B" team, consisting of Mike Ranney, Dennis
Sprick, Dave Friedfeld and Mark
Cowell, placed seventh overall.
Lehigh's "A" team covered the
route in one hour, 22 minutes
and 32 seconds. The "B" team did
the trick in one hour, 26 minutes
and 48 seconds.
HOME CLUB HUDDLES
Lehigh Home Club is continuing its program of Home Club
Huddles following each football
game in Taylor Stadium. The
huddles are held in Rathbone
Hall.
Henshaw Scores 3 TDs
Against Millersville 11;
Sterrett, Gardner Impress
Lehigh's rebuilt offensive unit,
with five new starters in the line
and two in the backfield, came up
with an assortment of big plays
Saturday as the Engineers
opened their football season with
a 27-18 triumph over visiting
Millersville State.
Some 9,500 spectators watched
coach Fred Dunlap's squad make
its debut with a sixth straight
victory, following five in a row to
end the 1974 schedule. It was the
Engineers' 12th win in their last
15 starts.
The team had some opening-
game problems both offensively
and defensively, but the big-
gainers smoothed over a lot of the
lumps and proved too much for a
determined Marauder squad
determined to spring an upset.
In the first quarter star
fullback Rod Gardner, of
Maplewood, N.J., broke through
LU—Army
Television
The Lehigh-Army football game will be featured
over WLVT-TV, Channel 39
of Bethlehem, at 11:30 a.m.
Sunday (Sept. 21).
Fans in the New York
City area may watch it at
10:30 p.m. Saturday, the
day of the game, over
Channel 13.
right guard and rambled 62 yards
for a touchdown. Greg Pierog's
conversion put Lehigh ahead to
stay, 7-6.
In the second halfback Mark
Weaver turned left end for 55
yards, taking the ball to the
Marauder 13, and four plays later
Weaver rammed two yards to the
goal-line only to fumble the ball.
Tight end Larry Henshaw, of
Hammonton, N. J., grabbed it in
mid-air and stepped into the end
zone. This was the first of three
touchdowns he registered.
In the third quarterback Joe
Sterrett, of Wallingford, Pa., and
Henshaw combined on a touchdown play covering 70 yards.
Sterrett passed 35 yards to
Henshaw who ran the remaining
35.
In the fourth Sterrett sparked a
sudden surge with three completions in three tries, for a total
of 47 yards, and Gardner had a 29-
yard gallop, as Lehigh closed out
its scoring with TD No. 4. The
tally came on a 15-yard pass,
Sterrett to Henshaw.
Sterrett, who came off the
bench in last year's opener to
direct a victory over Hofstra and
take attention briefly away from
starting quarterback Joe Alleva,
had another excellent debut this
year.
Although shaken up on his first
aerial attempt of the day, and
taken to the sideline for repairs,
he returned after a brief interval
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Game At A Glance
MILLERSVILLE .6 6 0 6—18
LEHIGH 7   7   7   6—27
M—Daly 16 pass from Lex. (Kick
blocked)
L—Gardner 62 run. (Pierog kick)
L—Henshaw 1 fumble recovery.
(Pierog kick)
M—Hill 15 pass from Lex. (Pass
failed)
L—Henshaw   70    pass    from
Sterrett. (Pierog kick)
L—Henshaw    15    pass    from
Sterrett. (Kick missed)
M—Lex 3 run. (Run failed)
Attendance—9,500
LEH.       MILL.
First downs 19 17
Net yds rushing 286 277
Net yds passing 227 184
Total yards 513 461
Passes attempted 18 27
Completed 13 11
Intercepted by 4 1
Punts 7 4
Avg. distance 32 35
Fumbles 4 5
Fumbles lost 2 2
Yards penalized 61 25
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing att   yds   avg
Gardner.L 21   188   8.9
Squires.M 17   117   6.8
Weaver,L 10    70   7.0
Lex,M  12     63   5.2
Passing att comp yds   td
Sterrett.L 18   13   227   2
Lex.M 27   11   184   2
Receiving No.   yds   td
Daly.M 5   107   1
Henshaw.L  4   125   2
Ulrich.M 3     30   0
Liptak.L 3     29   0
Lehigh players:
ENDS—Henshaw,  Liptak,  Lynch,  Merrill,
Skola, Ross, Lang, Camuti.
TACKLES—Yaszemski, Orcutt, McKinney,
Matt,  Martin,   Fendryk,  Matics,   Piec
zynski.
GUARDS—Schulze. Sonon, Giordani, Stine.
CENTERS—Borgosz, McKay.
QUARTERBACKS—Sterrett, Rieker.
HALFBACKS—Aprill,     Weaver,      Pierog,
Dutt,    Fenton,    Tracy,    Kelly,    Diorio,
Reese, Armstrong, Glasbrenner, Borden.
FULLBACKS—Gardner, Clark, Gallagher.
LINEBACKERS— Mullane,     Healy,     Gift,
Drusbosky, Frederick, Kozel.