South Mountaineer Volume 20, Issue 05

              Vol. 20 — No. 5
OCTOBER 11, 1977
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Rieker, Daniels, Kreider Lead Lehigh
To Victory Over Rhode Island, 42-16
LU Runners
Top 4 Foes
Jim Davis, a junior from
Maplewood, N.J., finished first in
25:07 over the 5-mile Saucon
Fields route to help Lehigh's
cross country runners sweep past
four opponents last Saturday.
The Engineers defeated
Millersville, 25-30, West Chester,
23-36, Rider, 19-44, and East
Stroudsburg, 16-45, hiking their
seasonal mark to 7-and-3.
Other Lehigh's in the Top
Fifteen were Larry Ullrich of
Amherst, N.H., sixth; Dave Rohr
of Rochester, N.Y., seventh; Don
Fink of Scotch Plains, N.J.,
eleventh, and Rick Devine of
Westwood, N.J., thirteenth.
The order of finish:
1. Jim Davis (L). Time: 25:07; 2. Al
Treffinger (M); 3. Mike Home (WC); 4. Pat
Quirk (WC); 5. Andy Noll (R); 6. Larry
Ullrich (L); 7. Dave Rohr (L); 8. Jim
Shorkey (M); 9. Dave Hummel (M); 10.
Norm Dethloff (M); 11. Don Fink (L); 12.
Bob Orazem (ES); 13. Rick DeVine (L); 14.
Matt Hart (WC); 15. Steve Montick (ES).
JV Gridders
Win First
Two placekick cdnversions by
Ted Iobst, of Emmaus, Pa., gave
Lehigh its winning margin in a
junior varsity football victory
over Kutztown State in the
Saucon Valley "bowl," 14-12.
It was the first triumph of the
season for the Little Engineers
who dropped a hard-fought
decision to Rutgers one week ago,
30-21. Kutztown had defeated
Shippensberg State and Stevens
Trade, and lost to East Stroudsburg, before meeting Lehigh.
Lehigh drove 52 yards for the
game's first touchdown with
Steve Plucinsky of Wallington,
N.J., highlighting the attack.
Fullback John Young of
Washington, D.C., plunged the
final yard and Iobst converted for
a 7-0 advantage.
Lehigh scored again, during
the second period, with Dave
Rosenfeld of Stamford, Conn.,
picking up 68 yards in two plays
for the touchdown. First he
passed to Mark Yeager of
Madison, N. J., on a halfback pass
good for 31 yards. On the next
play he caught a 37-yard scoring
pass from quarterback Lou
Pierro of Hudson, N.Y. Iobst
again converted.
Kutztown 0   6 0 6—12
Lehigh   0 14 0 0—14
L—Young 1 run. Iobst kick.
K—Thomas 6 run. Kick blocked.
L—Rosenfeld   37   pass   from
Pierro. Iobst kick.
K—Cottman 16 run. Run failed.
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GUARD TOM STTNE (66) escorts halfback Dave Aprill around right
end during last Saturday's romp at Rhode Island, 42-16. This kind of
blocking helped Lehigh produce a well-balanced attack showing 215
yards on the ground and 238 in the air.
Game At A Glance
Leh URI
First downs   22 16
Net yds. rushing  215 119
Net yds. passing  238 121
Total yards 453 240
Passes attempted  22 19
Completed  11 7
Intercepted by          2 0
Punts  ■■,...    5 7
Avg.distance   29 36
Fumbles      4 4
Fumbles lost      1 1
Penalties    7 4
Yds penalized    ... 81 56
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing att.yds.avg.td
Daniels, L   17   103   6.1 1
Davidson, RI  .... 5    59 11.8 0
Moser,RI 13    45   3.5 1
Shaw.RI   14    41   2.9 0
Morrissey, L 11    40   3.6 0
Aprill.L   9     36   4.0 Q
Passing att. com. int. yds. td
Rieker, L 22   11   0   238   2
Bailey, RI   9    4   1     77   1
Tosches, Ri .... 9    2   1     12   0
14—42
6—16
LEHIGH    14
URI      7
L—Kreider 65 pass from Rieker.
Wood kick.
L—Ford 1 run. Wood kick.
URI—Moser 2 run. Viall kick.
L—Van   Orden   10   pass   from
Rieker. Wood kick.
URI—FG 31 Viall.
L— Ricketson 2 run. Wood kick.
L—Daniels 8 run. Wood kick.
URI—Welsh 14 pass from Bailey.
Kick missed.
L—Ford 1 run. Wood kick.
Attendance: 4,115
Lehigh is shooting for its fifth
consecutive winning football
season in 1977.
2 Touchdowns In First 4:05
Give Team Easy Afternoon
Another coast-to-coast connection from quarterback Mike
Rieker to split end Steve Kreider,
for 65 yards and a touchdown on
Lehigh's third play of the game,
set the tempo last Saturday as the
Engineer footballers scuttled the
University of Rhode Island, 42-16.
It was the fourth victory in five
starts for Lehigh and it dampened the enthusiasm of 4,115
spectators at Meade Field,
Kingston, R.I. The host Rams,
who had hoped for better things
after winning 28-0 over Maine one
week earlier, lost for the third
time in five tries.
Lehigh went into action ranked
TV Slated
WLVT-TV, Channel 39 of
Bethlehem, will show the
entire Lehigh-Rutgers football game Saturday (Oct.
15) beginning at 10:30 p.m.
The game will be played
earlier that day at New
Brunswick, N.J., and the
television will originate
from Channel 52, New
Jersey Public Television.
The weekly Lehigh
Valley Collegiate Football
Review show Thursday
(Oct. 13) will feature the
Engineers at 7:30 p.m. over
WLVT-TV, Channel 39,
with comments on the
Rhode Island victory and
the upcoming Rutgers
contest.
Receiving
cgt.yds.td
Kreider, L  6 194   1
Spann,RI  ...4   82   0
Aprill,L '...2   12   0
LEHIGH PLAYERS
Offense: Ends—Kreider, Van Orden,
Lewis, Ringer, D. Rarig. Tackles—
Seasholtz, Melone, Vandergrift, Matics.
Guards—Stine, Schulze, Zwaan, Dondero.
Centers—Adams, McKay. Quarterbacks—
Rieker, Bernstein. Halfbacks—Aprill,
Daniels, Morrissey, J. Evanko. Fullbacks-
Ford, Ricketson. Kicker—Wood.
Defense: Ends—Skola, Clark, Crowe,
Butkus. Tackles—Giordani, Merrill,
Yaszemski, Pieczynski. (^Linebackers—
Frederick, Bradley, McCormick, McClain,
B. Rarig, Cassone, Haupt. Halfbacks—
Fenton, visokey, Reichenbach, Robinson.
Safety—Reese, Hefele,  Dunn,  Braverman.
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COACH JOHN WHITEHEAD on the sideline at Rhode Island. Identifiable Engineers are Chris Matics (62), Glenn Skola (88), Dave Rarig
(81) and Greg Clark (83). They all had a hand in victory as Lehigh won
for fourth time in five starts.
third in the Lambert Cup race,
behind leader New Hampshire
and runnerup Massachusetts,
and probably won't gain any
ground because both of those
teams also won big.
Rieker, the senior passing star
from Catasauqua, Pa., completed 11 of 22 aerials for 238
yards and two touchdowns. He
was the national total offense
leader in Div. II prior to the game
with a 239-yard average.
Kreider, of Reading, Pa.,
caught six passes for 194 yards-
one of them the early longdistance TD heave from Rieker—
but was given the afternoon off
where punt returns were concerned. He was a national leader
in that category for Div. II prior
to the game with a 20.7 average.
Halfback Lennie Daniels, of
Coxsackie, N.Y., enjoyed his
finest varsity game with 17
carries for 103 yards including an
8-yard scoring burst, to lead the
Engineers on the ground. John
Morrissey, of Monroe, Conn.,
carried 11 times for 40 yards and
Dave Aprill, of Fords, N.J.,
picked up 36 yards on nine attempts.
The anticipated aerial duel
between Rieker and Steve
Tosches, a transfer from Idaho
State who had been impressive
for the Rams in earlier starts,
never materialized. Lehigh
defenders put a hard pass rush on
Tosches early, shaking him up
and putting him on the sidelines
for much of the game, and he
wound up with only two completions in nine attempts for 12
yards. He was sacked for a 14-
yard loss and never had time to
set up and select targets.
Rieker stunned the Rams with
his 65-yarder to Kreider on
Lehigh's third play following the
opening kickoff. Kreider had
gone downfield and cut across the
middle one play earlier on an un-
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