South Mountaineer Volume 34, Issue 03

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Volume 34, Number 3
September 17, 1991
Bethlehem, Pa.
LEHIGHLIGHTS
NEW  HOOP ASSISTANT NAMED —
Richard Costello has been named assistant men's
basketball coach at Lehigh. The Lansdale, PA
native was head JV coach at Cabrini College in
Philadelphia last year. Costello, a 1988 graduate
of Muhlenberg College, has also been on staffs
of summer camps at the University of Notre
Dame, Villanova, Mount St. Mary's an the
University of Delaware. Costello joins the
Engineer men' s staff of head coach Dave Duke,
full-time assistant coach Al Keglovits and
graduate assistant Scott Layer.
JV FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
ANNOUNCED — Four games, all on Mondays,
have been scheduled for the Lehigh junior
varsity football team. The slate opens Sept. 16
at Goodman Stadium vs. Glassboro State,
followed by road games at Bucknell Oct. 7 and
at Lafayette Oct. 14 (7 p.m.). The schedule
closes with Fork Union (VA) Military Academy
November 11,2 p.m. at Goodman Stadium.
George "Fritz" Halfacre is head coach of the
junior varsity squad.
KEMPA HONORED (AGAIN) — Lehigh
senior quarterback Glenn Kempa, already an
All-America candidate, has been honored by
two more preseason publications. The
Femisylva/iia College Football Report names
the Taylor, PA native as its I-AA Player of the
Year, while College Football Magazine lists
Kempa as the top passer in the Patriot League.
WOLF RETURNS TO PENN STATE —
Lehigh is in the process of finding a new director
for its fitness center following the resignation
of Mike Wolf. Wolf has accepted a similar
position at Penn State University, where he was
a member of the school's 1986 national
championship football team and graduated in
1987. The Allentown native was with Lehigh
for one year, since the opening of the state-of-
the-art fitness center in July 1990.
OLYMPIC SPORTS REPORT ON WGPA
— WPGA-1.100. AM, in conjunction with
Lehigh's Office of Sports Information, will air
a daily update on Lehigh University Olympic
sports. The reports can be heard weekday
mornings at 8:30 a.m.
INSIDE the Mountaineer
Lehigh volleyball tourney 2
Lehigh Football - more than just
offensive 3
Media Guides offer 4
Football vs. UConn preview 4
DRAWING CARD
A look at the average football attendance
figures for Patriot League schools in 1990
stadium & capacities in ()
Holy Cross (Fitton Field: 23,500)           12,450
LEHIGH (Goodman: 16,000)
9,498 1
Lafayette (Fisher Field: 13,750)
m
Colgate (Kerr: 10,221)             7,9'
Bucknell (Mathewson: 13,100 )
6,664
Fordham (Coffey: 7,000)
4,819
Special teams key 32-7 victory over Rams
Engineers overwhelm Fordham
By GLENN HOFMANN
Sports Information Director
BRONX, NY — All through the
preseason, much of the media hype
was on the usual highly-regarded
Lehigh offense and the much-improved
Lehigh defense. Rarely, if at all, were
the special teams ever talked about.
That won't be the case anymore.
Two exhilarating kick returns by
Horace Hamm and Mark Lookenbill,
plus some excellent punting by Nick
Roccaforte, led the Engineers to a 32-
7 win over Fordham in the opening
game of the 1991 season.
"I was really impressed by our
special teams," Lehigh head coach
Hank Small said. "We held our
positions extremely well on our returns
and Nick really gave us some good
field position."
The first riveting return was courtesy
of Hamm and came on the ensuing
kickoff after Fordham had shocked the
Engineers by taking a 7-3 lead midway
through the first quarter.
"We were a little down after they
scored," Hamm said. "But the coaches
have been stressing the importance of
Lehigh's Horace Hamm gets a block and heads upfield on his 90-yard kickoff return
for a first quarter touchdown against Fordham. -photo by Keith Rappaport
Yadush named Patriot League Defensive
Player of the Week
Lehigh junior linebacker Mike Yadush (Walnutport, PA) was
named Patriot League Defensive Plaj erof the Week forthe week
of September■ W, i|f|; |:||||||||||i|:
; breakup* an^
Ranis. Yadush's interception; which came on his own 44-yard
line, was crucial for Lehigh, as it stopped Fordham's initial drive
special teams and the guys up front
opened some big holes for me...a
couple of cutbacks and I was in the
endzone."
The cutbacks on Hamm's 90-yard
touchdown run had the entire crowd
excited. The run even led New York
Jets announcer Marty Glickman, who
was in attendance, to say, "That guy is
like Rocket Ismail was last season for
Notre Dame. He can really turn a game
around."
Lehigh's second kick returned for
touchdown came late in the third
quarter courtesy of Mark Lookenbill
and stretched Lehigh's lead to 23-7.
"It was the first good punt they had
all afternoon and the first chance for a
good return," Lookenbill said of his
48-yard touchdown scamper. "I was
just following Dave Cecchini's blocks
into the endzone™
"We became a little discouraged after that,"
Fordham head coach Larry Glueck said. "I
thought we played extremely well most of the
game, but Lehigh just had to much firepower."
The
third part of
the special
teams
which
excelled
was the
actual
kicking
game itself.
Roccaforte
averaged
37ryards
for his four
punts,
seven
yards above his average of last year. But more
than the distance of his kicks it was the hang-
time which allowed Lehigh to cover the returns
well and also put the Lehigh defense in good
position.
And while defensively Lehigh did give up
332 yards, the Engineers did come up with
numerous big plays. Mike Yadush had ten
tackles, one interception and one fumble
recovery while Lee Picariello and Adam
Ciperski each had a team-high 12 tackles and
one interception.
"We were all a little nervous today,"
Ciperski said in comments echoed by almost
every Lehigh player after the game. "They
came out in an option and it took a little while
for us to get used to it."
No unit appeared more nervous than the
offense. Quarterback Glenn Kempa, while
throwing for two touchdowns, passed for only
187 yards. Kempa narrowly missed on a
number of long scoring strikes, but did connect
when it counted in the second half, hitting
Sean McCarthy and Hamm for TD strikes.
"I was a bit disappointed in our passing
game," Small said. "We had a chance for some
big plays and didn't execute. We just weren't
hitting on all cylinders."
But the special teams were and because of
them the Engineers came away with a victory
and are off to their fifth straight 1-0 start.
LUNOTES: Hamm's kickoff return was the
first for a touchdown since Steve Kreider's
94-yard run vs.. West Chester (9/9/
78)...Lookenbill's punt return was the first
since Pete Sczerbinski vs. Columbia (10/29/
89).,.With his ten points, placekicker Erik
Bird moved ahead of Mike Beattie into second
place on the all-time kick points list and into
seventh on the total points list...Lehigh has
now scored in double figures in 32 straight
games.
LEHIGH    10     0       13      9 —  32
Fordham    7    0        0      0 —    7
LEH — Bird 28 FG
Ford — Helverson 10 run (O'Hagan kick)
LEH — Hamm 90kick return (Bird kick)
LEH — McCarthy 2 pass from Kempa (Bird kick)
LEH — Lookenbill 48 punt return (kick blocked)
LEH— Bird 28 FG
LEH — Hamm 48 pass from Kempa (kick miss)
LEHIGH TEAM STATS
First downs 15
Rushes-Yards 29-137
Yds. Passing 187
Passes C-A-l 15-32-2
Fumbles-lost 1-0
Punts-Avg. 4-37
Penalties-Yds. 4-41
LEHIGH INDIVIDUAL STATS
Rushing — Arico 15-63, DiDomzio 7-36,
Masterpierro 2-30
Passing — Kempa 15-32-2 for 187
Receiving — Hamm 4-92, McCarthy 4-37,
Clark 3-29.