South Mountaineer Volume 19, Issue 01

              Vol. 19 — No. 1
SEPTEMBER 15, 1976
HETHLEHEM, PA.
Gridmen Rap Kutztown State
Billy Sheridan In New Hall o
Former LU
Coach Feted
Former Lehigh coach Billy
Sheridan, and 13 other giants of
the amateur wrestling world,
were inducted Sept. 11 as charter
members of the United States
Wrestling Federation's first Hall
of Fame.
Mrs. Emily Sheridan of
Bethlehem, his widow, accepted
the formal presentation during
ceremonies in the grand
ballroom of the student center at
Oklahoma State University,
Stillwater, Okla.
Mrs. Robert P. (Margie
Sheridan) Finger, of Michigan
City, Inc., a daughter of Coach
and Mrs. Sheridan, served as the
official presentor on behalf of the
United States Wrestling
Federation.
Among other Lehigh figures in
attendance were Gerry Leeman,
assistant to the director of
athletics, Dennis Diehl, assistant
executive director of the Lehigh
Alumni Assn., Bud Lindholm of
Sinking Spring, Pa., ex-EIWA
champion and newly-elected
member of the USWF Board of
Governors, and Mike Repa, of
Kingston, Pa., captain of
Lehigh's 1917 squad under
Sheridan.
Dr. Deming Lewis, Lehigh
president, sent his sentiments to
the Federation in an official
letter including the following
remarks:
"On behalf of Lehigh men and
women here and over the nation,
I am delighted to forward this
combined expression of appreciation for the election of William
(Billy) Sheridan to the National
Wrestling Hall of Fame.
"In so doing, the United States
Wrestling Federation is honoring
a founding father and preeminent
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(Bethlehem Globe-Times photo)
MRS. EMILY SHERIDAN, center, and daughter Mrs. Margie Finger,
accept congratulations from Frank Gifford at wrestling Hall of Fame
dinner Sept. 11 at Stillwater, Okla. Banquet was attended by 550
college wrestling rooters. Bethlehem
I   Football
Team Leh.   Opp.
First downs 17 10
Net yds. rushing  150 220
Net yds. passing  131 31
Total yards 281 251
Passes attempted 18 14
Completed 9 6
Intercepted by 1 0
Punts 6 7
Yards  238 217
Avg. distance 40 31
Fumbles'. 2 2
Fumbles lost 1 2
Penalties 6 6
Yds. penalized 52 59
Total points   29 6
Lehigh 14   8   0   7—29
Opp  0   0   6   0—6
Women's Sports Expanded
Women undergraduates, admitted to Lehigh for the first time
in the fall of 1971, have lost little
time making a bid for athletic
attention.
Last year there were six
women's varsity teams. Five of
them were winners and overall
they had a 40-12 mark. Women's
field hockey paced all of the
university's teams with a 10-0
record and women's tennis
fashioned a second straight 8-0
campaign.
Softball has been added,
beginning varsity play next
spring, and this brings to seven
the varsity sports total.
Field hockey and volleyball are
spotlighted now, in the fall, with
basketball and swimming in the
winter and lacrosse, tennis and
the newcomer—softball—in the
spring.
Helen Bond heads the program
as assistant director for women's
athletics and head coach of field
hockey and tennis.
Barbara Lipkin coaches
volleyball and lacrosse with Joan
Peto handling swimming and
Annette Lynch in charge of the
basketball squad. A softball
coach is to be selected.
Lehigh is a member of the
National and Eastern
Associations of Athletics for
Women which offers opportunities for post-season
championship competition in all
sports.
INDIVIDUAL
Rushing             Att Yds Avg Td
Aprill 16    59 3.7 1
Weaver 7    45 6.4 0
Daniels  13    42 3.2 0
Pierog 1      7 7.0 0
Rieker 5      7 1.4 0
Rogusky 1      3 3.0 0
Barth 1   -2 xx 0
Kershaw 4   -11 xx 0
Passing        att comp int yds td
Rieker 15    7    0     120    2
Kershaw 3    2    0      11    1
Total Offense rush pass yds
Rieker 7   120   127
Kershaw  -11    11      0
(Others same as rushing totals.)
Receiving No   Yds   Td
Dutt 3   30   0
Henshaw  2   60   1
Aprill 2     9   1
Barth 1   19   0
Weaver 1   13   0
Punting
Weaver
No   Yds   Avg
...6   238   39.6
Punt Returns
Weaver	
No   Yds   Avg
....1     15   15.0
KickoffRets. No   Yds   Avg
Weaver l    16   16.0
Scoring
Aprill	
Henshaw
Weaver ..
tdk   p fg   pts
..2   0 0   0   12
.10 10     8
. ..1   0 0 0-2   6
Successful Debut For New
Mentor; Aprill Scores Two
Lehigh, with a new head coach INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
on the sideline and a new quar-      Rushing att   yds   avg   td
terback on the field, opened its      Harper, K 13   78     6.0     0
93rd football season Sept. 14 with      Van Ness, K 19   67     3.5     0
a  29-6  victory  over   Kutztown      Aprill, L 16   59     3.7     1
State before 9,500 spectators at      Day, K 5   49     9.8     0
Taylor Stadium. Weaver, L 7   45     6.4     0
John Whitehead, for nine years      Daniels, L 13   42     3.2     0
an assistant on Lehigh staffs,
enjoyed   a    successful    head      Passing att com int yds td
coaching debut at the expense of     Rieker, L 15   7   0   120   2
the Golden Bears. D'Ottavio.K 5   4   0    17   0
The new QB was Mike Rieker,
a junior who completed seven of      Receiving cght yds td
15 passes for 120 yards and two      Dutt.L    3   30   0
touchdowns while playing a little      McGrath.K 3   21   1
more than half the game. Henshaw, L 2   60   1
There was no doubt as to the      Aprill, L    2    9   1
outcome   after   the   opening     	
minutes of the contest when
Lehigh tallied twice to gain a 14-0
lead. Kutztown refused to quit,
coming back with a fairly strong
effort, but the Bears didn't have
the manpower to mount a serious
challenge.
Rieker, in his first varsity
start, didn't throw the ball until
the fifth Lehigh offensive play of
the day. When he did, seven
points were rung up on the board.
He fired 39 yards to tight end
Larry Henshaw who made a
spectacular catch and crossed
into the end zone. Greg Pierog
added the conversion and the
Engineers had a 7-0 edge with
only three minutes gone.
Defensive halfback Marc
Borden recovered a Kutztown
fumble moments later and
Rieker found Henshaw again on a
pass covering 21 yards to the
Golden Bear 2-yard line. Dave
Aprill plunged into the end zone,
Pierog converted and it was 14-0.
Things settled down a bit after
that outburst until midway
through the second period when
the Engineers fashioned an 86-
yard scoring march. Aprill,
filling in for fullback Rod Gardner who's out of action with a
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Pierog 0 3-3 0   0     3
4 3-3 1-1 0-2 29
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