South Mountaineer Volume 24, Issue 15

              Published by the Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 24 — No. 15
JANUARY 19, 1982
BETHLEHEM, PA.
Kilrain Is
To) Beat At 190
Bill Donahue
On The Job
In Fieldhouse
Bill Donahue, who has succeeded Jim Gibbons as supervisor of Rauch Field House and
the Saucon Fields and assistant
coach of track and cross country at Lehigh, served as physical education instructor and
head coach of those sports at
Lafayette from 1966 through
1980.
Gibbons resigned last
summer and Donahue was
appointed after a recommendation from a selection committee
headed by John Covert, assistant director of athletics at
Lehigh and head coach of track
and cross country.
Donahue, a graduate of Central High School, Binghamton,
N.Y., and Colgate University,
1959, was an assistant coach at
Colgate in 1959 and 1960, freshman cross country and track
and field; an assistant track and
football coach and English,
Latin and physical education
instructor at Mercersberg
Academy, 1960-62, and head
coach of track and a Latin and
physical education instructor at
Shaker High School, Latham,
N.Y., 1962-66.
He moved to the Lafayette
staff in 1966 where he initiated
indoor track and field, the
Alumni Track and Field Newsletter, the Lafayette College
Track and Field Club and spring
track and field trips.
He's a former chairman and a
member of the Middle Atlantic
Conference University Division
cross country games committee, member of the East Coast
Conference Track and Field
games committee, seeding
advisor for indoor and outdoor
IC4A track and field championships and is a current member
of the Track Events Jury of
Appeals for Indoor and Outdoor
IC4A championships.
He was track and field coach
at Clair Bee's Camp All-
America, 1960-62; director of
the Latham, N.Y., Kiwanis
summer track and field program, 1962-66; track and field
coach at Blue Mountain Sports
Camp, 1970-73; Easton Kiwanis
summer track and field program instructor, 1972-73; director and pool supervisor of the
Lafayette summer recreation
program, 1971-75; on the U.S.
Olympic Committee's specialized coaching staff, 1971; director of the U.S. Women's
Olympic development track
and field clinic at Lafayette,
1973 and 1975; and Monroe
County Dept. of Parks and
Recreation "Aerobic Fitness-
Weight Training" instructor,
1980.
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COLIN KILRAIN (left) and Tommy Bold were undefeated and untied last week during Lehigh's
wrestling trip through Iowa. Kilrain established himself as the nation's top man at 190 and Bold
hiked his record to 7-1-1 at 150. Kilrain is 9-0.
Chip Off The Old Knuckle
By Mike Chapman
Sports Editor
The Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
When Iowa hosted Lehigh in
wrestling Saturday mat fans
saw more than just two fine collegiate teams compete.
They also watched the great
grandson of one of America's
legendary bareknuckle prizefighters in action.
Colin Kilrain is the star of the
Lehigh Engineers, one of just
two men to ever defeat Iowa's
two-time NCAA champ Eddie
Banach (9-5 last year at Lehigh)
in a dual meet.
And he is the great grandson
of Jake Kilrain, who earned
pugilistic immortality against
the legendary John L. Sullivan
in America's last bareknuckle
heavyweight championship
fight.
"Sullivan's most persistent
challenger was Jake Kilrain,"
said Graham Houston, in his
book Superfists. Kilrain was,
according to Houston "a tough
fighter from Long Island, New
York, who had fought a draw
with English champion Jem
Smith, the fight being called off
because of darkness after 106
rounds. John L. defeated Kilrain in 75 rounds at Richburg,
Miss., on July 8, 1889, when
Jake's seconds threw in the
sponge. The fight lasted 2 hours,
16 minutes."
Kilrain had been considered
world champion in some circles. The publisher of the very
popular and powerful Police
Gazette had even presented Kilrain with a world title belt.
Kilrain fought Sullivan just
once, but Kilrain took on soon-
to-be champion James J. Corbet! in 1890, losing a six-round
decision. Corbett had great
respect for the 210-pound Kil-
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Teni Guman Makes
All-Tourney Team
JAKE KILRAIN
. . .fought John L.
Terri Guman netted 56 points
in three games, including 27
during a 64-50 triumph over
Clarion, to earn a berth on the
Shippensburg Women's Basketball Tournament all-star team.
The junior from Bethlehem,
Pa., also had 19 during a 69-59
loss to Shippensburg, and 10
during a 58-54 defeat at the
hands of Slippery Rock.
Other scoring leaders were
freshman Ann Loan of New
Providence, N.J., with 31, and
junior Kathy King of Mt. Laurel, N.J., 30. Kathy Kreider, sister of Lehigh wide receiver
Steve Kreider who's headed for
the superbowl with the Cincin-
LEHIGH
Cutting   2-0-0-4,   Gebhard   0-0-0-0,
McHugh 0-1-2-1, Loan 4-0-3-8, Rada- .
baugh 0-0-0-0, King 4-1-5-9, Pietsch 5-0-
0-10, Guman 12-3-3-27, Leitner 0-0-0-0,
Dantas 2-1-2-5. Totals: 29-6-15-64.
CLARION
Fisher 0-0-0-0, Tatsak 9-0-0-18, Garred
1-4-4-6, Lewis 3-2-2-6, Krotje 0-0-0-0,
Cudor 4-4-4-12, Smith 0-0-0-0, Kiljauric
0-0-0-0, Stelinka 2-2-3-6. Totals: 19-12-
13-50.
Halftime: Lehigh, 37-32.
nati   Bengals,   had   eight  for
Shippensburg.
Coach Maureen Frederick's
team started fast, with its 14-
point conquest of Clarion, and
led Slippery Rock for a half
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TERRI GUMAN
.. .all-star choice
Lehigh Star
Whips Mann;
Bold Shines
Colin Kilrain established himself as the man to beat for
national 190-pound honors last
week despite three team losses
as Lehigh wrestlers mushed
through a 3-meet trip into the
snows and icy temperatures of
Iowa.
Kilrain won three times,
boosting his season mark to 9-0,
during close losses to Northern
Iowa, 23-18, and Iowa State, 24-
18, and a 34-7 reversal at the
hands of the University of Iowa,
ranked No. 1 in the nation.
Keeping pace with him was
150-pounder Tommy Bold who
also went 3-0 while lifting his
season record to 7-1-1.
Of the other eight men only
126-pounder Tom Husted
emerged a winner during the
Iowa invasion, going 2-1 at his
weight. Bobby Weaver (118)
was 1-1-1, Pete Schuyler (134)
1-2 and Jeff Newman (167) 1-2.
Coach Thad Turner's forces
failed to win or tie at 142,158,177
or heavyweight and this lack of
balance proved costly.
Kilrain had a sensational trip,
beating three rivals ranked high
in his division. He started with a
12-8 victory over fifth-rated
Kirk Myers of Northern Iowa,
trounced top-ranked Mike
Mann of Iowa State, 9-3, and finished with an 11-1 rout of Iowa's
Pete Bush, ranked No. 6 by The
National Mat News.
Bold polished off Kevin
Wedeking of Northern Iowa, 14-
6, Dan Wald of Iowa State, 19-6,
and Marty Kistler of Iowa, 12-
10.
Husted, after winning 12-4
over Randy Majors of Northern
Iowa and 18-6 over Rick DeBar-
tula of Iowa State to hike his season mark to 8-0, lost his first
bout to Mark Trizzino of Iowa,
5-2.
Jeff Turner (177) missed the
Iowa trip because of academic
difficulties and Rich Santoro
(134) was sidelined with a
shoulder injury suffered in the
Midlands Tourney.
The Engineers (1-4-1) had a
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N.IOWA-23, LEHIGH-18
118—Bob Weaver, L, dec. Bob Hal-
lman, 8-3.
126—Tom Husted.  L, dec.  Randy
Majors, 12-4.
134—Pete Schuyler, L. dec. Shawn
Kelly, 9-1.
142—Ken Gallagher, NI, dec. Frank
Vresics, 27-6.
150—Tommy  Bold,  L, dec. Kevin
Wedeking, 14-6.
158—Larry Luttrell, NI, dec. Roy
Lobdell, 9-1.
167—Efonda Sproles, NI, dec. Jeff
Newman, 10-5.
177—Joe Gormally, NI, dec. Benjy
Dudek, 18-5.
190—Colin   Kilrain,   L,   dec.   Kirk
Myers, 12-8.
Unl—John Kreibs, NI, pinned Pat
Brown in 1:57.
Referee: Mike Allen. Jan. 13