South Mountaineer Volume 18, Issue 15

              Vol. 18 — No. 15
JANUARY 20, 1976
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Whitehead Named Football Coach
Cagers Win Roanoke Tournament
Brown Leads Engineers
Past Rider, Roanoke
AMiafeo     Veteran Staffer Promoted;
A new backcourt combination,
and a veteran up-front star,
combined their talents Dec. 29-30
to give Lehigh's revitalized
basketball team a pair of upset
victories and the championship of
the Roanoke, Va., Kiwanis Invitational Tournament.
Coach Brian Hill's squad
shocked tournament-favorite
Rider on the first night of the
Civic Center festivities at
Roanoke, 71-69, while the host
team was outlasting Susquehanna, 100-%.
In the title game, the second
day, the Engineers scrapped
their way to a 57-56 overtime
decision against Roanoke after
Rider had beaten Susquehanna
78-70 in the consolation
preliminary.
It was the most satisfying 48
hours of basketball put in by a
Lehigh team within memory and
the first outright tournament
title, at least in modern history.
In the 1967-68 campaign the
Engineers, coached by Roy
Heckman, shared first place with
MIT and Hope College of
Michigan in a round-robin
tourney at Schenectady, N. Y.
Each of those teams had 2-1
marks in the tourney while host
Union College was 0-3.
Those triumphs helped Lehigh
fashion a 12-11 season, the most
recent winning year.
Making up the potent new
backcourt duo are sophomore
Ken Clifford and freshman Billy
Griffin, former teammates at
Union, N. J., Catholic High. The
scoring leader in the front line is
veteran Charley Brown, a junior.
Brown paced Lehigh's shooters
at Roanoke with 33 points in the
pair of pressure thrillers. Clifford
and Griffin, in addition to
directing the floor play, had 24
apiece. Paul Brandenburg, the
leading up-front reserve, came
off the bench twice with sparkling
efforts and totaled 15 points and
21 rebounds. Brown had 28
rebounds along with his 33 tallies.
"Winning this tournament was
a big thing for our basketball
program at Lehigh," says Hill.
"The players realize they can
win. Memories of that 1-23 season
last year are being overshadowed." The Engineers left
Roanoke with a 6-3 record and
three straight victories.
Lehigh had the best pre-
tourney record of any of the
teams but news media representatives wrote the Engineers
off with the observation that four
earlier triumphs were scored
over     "no-name     opponents."
Rider, which had a losing record
but had played some highly-rated
clubs right down to the wire,
therefore was installed as the
favorite.
The Engineers tore after the
Broncos right from the start and
ran up a stunning 30-16 lead
before Rider discovered it had a
basketball game on its hands.
Rider fought back, moved
ahead at 39-37 early in the second
half, but Lehigh tied at 39, 41 and
43 before regaining the lead—this
time for keeps—with successive
baskets by Clifford, Brown and
Bill Milligan. The Broncos kept
coming, pulling to within a pair of
points at 49-47, 53-51 and 55-53,
and later at 69-67, but the
Engineers shook off the pressure
and preserved the win.
Griffin  converted  two  free
throws  with  three  seconds  to
play, for a 71-67 advantage, and
Rider was given an uncontested
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JANUARY 24
Allentown and Northern New
Jersey clubs luncheon (noon) in
the University Center, Room 303,
prior to Lehigh—Yale wrestling
meet in Grace Hall at 2:30.
Luncheon and meet ticket $5.50
per person for Allentown
members, $2.50 luncheon only.
Contact Robert Porter, 1882
Ridgelawn Ave., Bethlehem,
phone 867-9005. Cost $6 per person
for Northern New Jersey
members. Contact Richard
Bradley, 7 Williams Rd.,
Chatham, N.J., phone 201-635-
8347.
JANUARY 26
Delaware Club mid-season
wrestling smoker at Farmer in
The Dell Restaurant, Glasgow,
Del., intersection of Rt. 896 and
U.S. 40, beginning at 8 p.m. No
charge. Food and drink available
from menu. Coach Thad Turner
is speaker and films of Lehigh
matmen in action against Iowa
and Iowa State are scheduled.
Contact Robert Biggs, 959 Devon
Drive, Newark, Del., phone 302-
368-4545.
Dunlap Goes To Colgate
John Whitehead, a native of
Summit Hill, Pa., was promoted
to the position of head football
coach at Lehigh University effective Monday, Jan. 19.
He succeeds Fred Dunlap who
accepted an appointment
Saturday, Jan. 10, as director of
athletics and head football coach
at Colgate University.
Whitehead came to Lehigh in
1967 as offensive line mentor. In
1972 he was named offensive
coordinator, a position in which
he contributed greatly toward
establishing the Engineers as one
of the highest-scoring teams in
the nation.	
Last season Lehigh won its
second Lambert Cup in the last
three years and was selected to
participate in the NCAA Division
II national playoffs for the second
lime, also in the last three years.
The Engineers averaged 37
points and 458 yards a game
while winning nine times in 11
Matmen, Hit By Injuries,
Lose Four Meets On Trip
Lehigh wrestlers, burdened
with a five-meet losing streak,
returned to Grace Hall this week
hoping to regain their winning
ways against Bucknell, North
Carolina State and Yale.
On      a      recently-completed
NORTHERN IOWA 21, LEHIGH 15
118 — Dave Cunningham (N) won by
forfeit.
126— BobSloand (L) dec. Jon Bagenstof 7-
1.
134 — Tihamer Toth-Fejel (L) dec. Stan
Allen 4-2.
142 — Mike Frick (U dec. Jeff Billerbeck
16-4.
150 — Jim Blasingame (N) dec. Mark
Stauffer 6-2.
158— Dick Briggs (N) dec. Jeff Duke 7-6.
167— Keith Poolman (N) dec. Nils Deacon
7-5.
177 — Dan Keller (N) dec. Charlie Brown
4-0.
190— Cass Igam (N) dec. Guy Tallarico 7-
5.
Hwt — Don McCorkel (L) dec. Bob
Leonard 9-1.
Referee:  Bob Sidens.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS27, LEHIGH 18
118 — John Gross (S) won by forfeit.
126 —Joe Goldsmith (S)dec. Bob Sloand 8-
0.
134 — Tihamer Toth-Feiel (L) dec. Dave
Eggert 6-1.
142 —Mike Frick (L) pinned Bill Ramsden
1:55.
150 — Clyde Ruffin (S) pinned Mark
Stauffer 7:46.
158 — Jeff Duke (L) dec. Jay Friederick 7-
3.
167 — Jim Horvath (S) dec. Nils Deacon
10-7.
177 —Mark Wiesen (S) dec. Charlie Brown
6-0.
190 — Tom Vizzi (S) dec. Guy Tallarico 19-
5.
Hwt — Don McCorkel (L) pinned Tim
Swoboda in 1:17.
midwestern swing the Engineers
bowed to NCAA champion Iowa,
32-17: Iowa State, 31-11, NCAA
Div. II champion Northern Iowa,
21-15, and Southern Illinois at
Carbondale, 27-18.
The Engineers, who won their
first five tests this winter before
dropping an 18-16 thriller to
Oregon State, now are 5-5. Hopes
of a 24th consecutive winning
season are in jeopardy.
An unbelievable run of
misfortune has plagued a team
which moved toward 1975-76
action with chances to improve
upon last year's 16-2-2 mark.
EIWA 167-pound champ Mark
Lieberman, on a five-year
academic program, decided to sit
out the season. NCAA and EIWA
134-pound champ Mike Frick of
Hamburg, N.J., missed the first
six meets because of academic
probation. EIWA 142-pound titlist
Pat Sculley won't wrestle a bout
this winter because of academic
difficulties.
NCAA and EIWA 177-pound
champ Mike Lieberman, after
winning his first six bouts, was
injured in an auto accident and
his chances of returning "in four
to eight weeks" are hazy. He
suffered a neck injury.
Lieberman left the lineup at the
same time Frick was able to
return, being restored to
academic good graces, so the
Engineers still haven't had their
pair   of   NCAA   champion   co-
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IOWA 32, LEHIGH 17
118 — Mark Mysnyk (I) won by forfeit.
126 — Mike McDonough (I) pinned Bob
Sloand in 5:15.
134 — Tihamer Toth-Feiel (L) won by
forfeit.
142 — Mike Frick (L) drew with Brad
Smith 4-4.
150 — Chuck Yagla (I) pinned Mark
Stauffer in 6:57.
158 — Glenn Willard (L) pinned Mike
McGivern in   :42.
167 — Don Wagemann (I) dec. Nils Deacon
9-7.
177 — Chris Campbell (I) dec. Charlie
Brown 4-0.
190 — Bud Palmer (I) pinned Guy
Tallarico in 7:03.
Hwt— Don McCorkel (L) dec. Ed Herman
7 2.
IOWA STATE 31, LEHIGH 11
118 — Don Finnegan (IS) won by forfeit.
126 — Paul Bartlett (IS) dec. Bob Sloand
9-8.
134 — Tihamer Toth-Feiel (L) dec. Bob
Antonacci 10-2.
142 —Mike Frick (L) dec. Ernie Krist 13-5.
150 — Peter Galea (IS) pinned Mark
Stauffer in 1:30.
158 —JoeZuspann (IS) dec. Glenn Willard
6-0.
167—Dave Powell (IS) dec. Nils Deacon 8-
3.
177 — Willy Gadson (IS) pinned Charlie
Brown in 4:43.
190 — Frank Santana (IS) dec. Guy
Tallarico 8-1.
Hwt — Don McCorkel (L) dec. Bob Fouts
5-1.
Referee: Virgil Berring.
starts during the regular campaign.
The team went to a wing-T
offense, for the first time, and
Whitehead plans to continue the
same style. "I don't foresee any
major changes in our system,"
he says.
The new head coach at Lehigh,
where intercollegiate football
was added to the University's
athletic program in 1884, attended The Scotland, Pa. School
before matriculating at East
Stroudsburg State College where
he received a BS degree. He also
did graduate work at Pennsylvania State University.
Whitehead played four years of
varsity football at East
Stroudsburg and captained high
school and college football,
basketball and track squads. He
also played two seasons at center
for the Shenandoah Presidents of
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Statement
Dr. Deming Lewis, president of
Lehigh, said: "We have accepted
Fred Dunlap's resignation with
great regret.
"As Lehigh's head football
coach for 11 seasons he has made
remarkable progress with our
football program and has contributed significantly to the total
education of the young men who
played on his varsity teams. He
knows that academics come first.
"Fred and his family are liked
and admired by all members of
the Lehigh Family here and
across the country.
"As he assumes his dual
position as director of athletics
and head football coach at his
alma mater, Colgate, we wish
him every success in the future."
Statement
Bill Leckonby, Lehigh's
director of athletics, made this
statement regarding John
Whitehead's choice as Fred
Dunlap's successor:
"I have the utmost confidence
that John can do the job. He has
done fine work both as an
assistant coach and as offensive
coordinator. He's a solid coach
and knows the Lehigh situation
well. He has had an outstanding
record as a head coach in high
school and has been through both
the low spots and good ones here.
He actually deserved a chance
rather than some stranger who
would reap the benefits of a
program which he helped to
build."