South Mountaineer Volume 38, Issue 02

              DID YOU KNOW?
The first-ever gold medal in the Olympics was won by Thomas Burke, a
former Lehigh coach in 1896. He won
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Lehigh Soccer Tournament
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South Mountaineer
Volume 9, Issue 02
Lehigh University Athletics Weekly
September 12,1995
Army runs over Lehigh 42-9
FOOTBALL STATS
by Glenn Hofmann
Sports Communications Director
West Point, NY — Members of
the Lehigh football team toured
West Point on Friday, the day
before they were set to battle in
what has been called one of
college football's finest settings.
On Saturday they played Division
I-A Army at Michie Stadium.
Army showed Lehigh why they
are always ranked among the top
10 rushing teams in the country
as the Cadets piled up 376 yards
on the ground en route to a 42-9
season-opening win.
As good as the vaunted Army
rushing attack was, Air Lehigh
was equally as inept. Lehigh could
manage only 98 yards passing and
204 total yards of offense. In the
process, Lehigh's consecutive
game double figure scoring streak
was ended at 96 straight games.
"Going into the third quarter I
thought we were in good position
to win the game," head coach
Kevin Higgins said.
And he was right. Lehigh
trailed 21-9 at the half, not an
overwhelming deficit considering
how the game started. On the first
play from scrimmage Rashad
Hodge ran 74 yards for a touchdown. On its next series the
Cadets travelled 66 yards on 14
plays to make it 14-0.
Air Lehigh came back and
seemed to get in synch. Senior
quarterback Bob Aylsworth
completed 4-of-5 passes, the last a
six-yard TD strike to sophomore
Chris Ashby. The extra point was
no good due to a botched hold.
-Dave Bourque
Senior defensive back Roman McDonald makes one of his 16 tackles.
The Lehigh defense stiffened on
the next series forcing an Army
punt. Starting at their own 45,
Lehigh marched down to the Army
30, but Aylsworth was intercepted.
"The ball just sailed on me,"
Aylsworth said. "To win a game like
this against a I-A opponent you
can't make mistakes and we did."
Army took the turnover and 10
plays later scored on a one-yard run
by quarterback Ron McAda to give
the Cadets a 21-7 advantage.
Again the Lehigh offense responded thanks in large part to
junior Rabih Abdullah, who gained
31 of his 90 yards on the next series.
Unable to get a touchdown, senior
placekicker Mike Swartz kicked a
career-long 42-yard field goal to cut
the deficit to 21-9.
Rabih Abdullah turns upfield against Army Saturday in Lehigh's
42-9 loss. Abdullah rushed for 90 yards on 12 carries.
■Dave Bourque
Junior Curtis May stopped
Army's next drive at the Lehigh 20
yard-line with an interception and
the stage appeared set for a great
second half.
"I think we were well prepared," Aylsworth said. "In the first
half the offense looked good, but in
the second half we were out of
synch."
Lehigh could muster only 24
yards passing and 36 yards rushing
in the second stanza. Meanwhile,
the Army offense wore down the
Lehigh defense turning the game
into a rout.
"We were prepared," senior
defensive back Roman McDonald,
who had a team-high 16 tackles,
said. "We didn't make the plays
when we had to."
"I think we are more physical
and stronger than last year,"
Higgins said. "I think in games two
and three it will show up."
Game two is against a I-AA and
Patriot League foe Colgate on
Saturday. Let's hope Higgins is
right.
EXTRA POINTS ... Two freshman
started on the defensive line, Nick
Martucci and David Merrifield ...
Thirteen frosh were on two-deep
depth chart... Lehigh was stopped
at Army one-yard-line late in
second half... Junior backup
quarterback Aaron Brown is also on
kickoff and punt teams ... In other
games involving Patriot League
teams, Lafayette beat Buffalo 24-
17, Northeastern beat Colgate 44-3,
Hofstra beat Holy Cross 24-9,
Bucknell beat Southern Connecticut 20-0 and Fordham beat Marist
46-0.
Score By Quarters
1      2       3 4 F
Lehigh 6      3      0 0 9
Army 14      7     14 7 42
Scoring:
A Hodge 74 run (Parker kick)
A Carpenter 1 run (Parker kick)
L Ashby 6 pass from Aylsworth
(Pass failed)
A McAda 1 run (Parker kick)
L Swartz 42 field goal
A Perry 1 run (Parker kick)
A Leshinski 35 pass from McAda
(Parker kick)
Conroy 6 run (Parker kick)
LEHIGH
12
106
98
204
6-72
3-0
1
24:31
0-0
First Downs
Net Rushing
Net Passing
Total Yards
Penalties
Fumbles/Lost
Interceptions
Possession
Sacks By   .
ARMY
23
376
107
483
5-40
0-0
1
35:29
4-31
Rushing
LU: Abdullah 12-90, Stillings 4-18,
King 2-8, Brown 2-8, Baker 2-4,
A: Hodge 6-99,McAda 11-58,
Passing
LU: Aylsworth 12-21-78-1 TD, 1 Int
Brown 2-3-20
A: McAda 5-10-98 1 TD, 1 Int.,
Thompson 1-1-9
Receiving
LU: Klingerman 3-28, Abdullah 3-
10, Meurer 2-23, Ekstrom 2-17,
Streeter 2-7, Kennedy 1-7,
A: Thomas 2-41, Leshinski 1-35
Tackles
LU: McDonald 16, Eckenrode 14,
Stokes 12, Sunderland 11, Miller 11
A: Coldsnow 8, Gay 6, Cantelupe 6
Punting
LU: Taibott 7-39.4
A: Hughes 3-33.7
Schedule/Results
Sept. 9
Sept. 16
Sept. 23
Sept. 30
Oct. 7
Oct. 14
Oct. 21
Oct. 28
Nov. 4
Nov. 11
Nov. 18
at Army
at Colgate
YALE
UNH
at Bucknell
at Columbia
CORNELL
at UMass
at Fordham
HOLY CROSS
LAFAYETTE
9-42
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