South Mountaineer Volume 13, Issue 02

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The
South Mountaineer
Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
VOL. 13-No. 2
SEPTEMBER 29, 1970
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Penn Victorious Before 10,400
Dates Changed
For Wrestling
Tournaments
Lehigh University is exploring
the possibility of changing the
date of its 1971 prep school
wrestling tournament, currently
set for March 5-6.
A switch in collegiate tourney
dates has resulted in the
Eastern Intercollegiate
Wrestling Assn. (eiwaO test being
moved from March 12-13 to March
5-6, at the Naval Academy.
A District 2 tournament,
scheduled as a qualifying test
for the 1970-71 NCAA tourney,
is slated for March 12-13 at
Princeton. Most EIWA members,
including Lehigh, are in District
2.
The Nationals will be held
March 25-26-27 at Auburn University, Auburn, Ala., with
wrestlers from district qualifying tournaments competing.
Soccer Team
Defeated, 2-0
A pair of goals in the fourth
period enabled Navy to down a
stubborn Lehigh soccer team Saturday   at   Annapolis,  Md.,   2-0.
The Engineers, who won theor
first eight starts of 1969, were
unable to shake off a slump which
had found them losing their last
four. It also was the third straight
contest in which they were
blanked.
Joe Strickland, last season's
Middle Atlantic Conference
western section all-star goalie,
fought off the favored Middies and
kept them without a score until
Kevin Dolan headed in a shot
with 12^19 left in the game.
Mike Flanagan gave Navy an
insurance marker in the closing
minutes,scoring from close-up
with an assist by Dolan. Bob Spahr
drew an assist on the first Middie
marker, lofting a corner kick into
position for Dolan to head the
ball into the net.
Navy got off 22 scoring
attempts against 15 for the Engineers. Strickland was credited
with 13 saves and John Goddard,
in  the nets for Navy, had nine.
The lineups;
LEHIGH
POS.
NAVY
Strickland
G
Godard
Laitala
RFB
Giessing
Perlow
LFB
Abernathy
Stiver
RHB
Paul
Fetters
HB
Hura
Gaughen
LHB .
Eisbernd
Bayne
OR
Young
Degen
IR
Spahr
Newton
CF
Conklin
Sullivan
IL
Rowe
Lowenberg
OL
Preston
LEHIGH   . . .
. . 0
0    0    0-0
NAVY
. 0
0    0     2-2
Goals: Dolan,
Flanagan,
Assi
sts: Spahr,
Dolan.
LEHIGH'S rugged defensive unit gangs up on Penn fullback Bob Long (30) at Franklin Field. In on the stop are linebackers Rich
Revta (50), Blake Johnstone (54), George Nicholson (81), and Chuck Smith (52). Trailing the play is safetyman Dennis Stock (16).
Long Runbacks Open Up Game;
Penalties, Injuries Hurt Engineers
Two long runbacks opened up
an otherwise tight football game
at Franklin Field Saturday as
Pennsylvania handed Lehigha24-0
loss before 10,400 spectators.
It was the first game of the year
for the Quakers and the second for
the Engineers (1-1) who shut out
C.W.Post in their opener one week
earlier, 7-0.
Lehigh lost the battle of the
statistics against Post but finished
first the only place where it counts,
on the scoreboard. Against Penn
the Engineers, although beaten by
a misleading 24-point margin, held
a statistical advantage.
Coach Fred Dunlap*s club topped
the Quakers in first downs, 15-10,
and in total yards, 232-204. The
Engineers also led in yards penalized, 107-25, and these walk-offs
had a lot to do with the Brown and
White suffering poor field position
most of the afternoon.
The pair of runbacks which
opened the game for the Quakers
came  during the second quarter.
Early in the period, at a time
when Lehigh was battling the
Quakers on even terms, Steve
Solow took a punt and raced 84
yards into the end zone. It was a
twisting, turning run behind
several open-field blocks and it
put the sophomore safetyman into
the record books with the longest
punt-return scoring run in Penn
history.
The second killing runbackcame
with only seven seconds remaining
in the first half as linebacker Bill
Oakerson intercepted a pass
thrown by soph quarterback Cliff
Eby and moved 42 yards to the
Engineer  one  before  Jack Rizzo
overtook him. Quarterback Pane ho
Micir sneaked across for the TD.
Eby had been hit hard as he released the ball.
Between these scores Penn organized its only touchdown drive
of the afternoon, moving 57-yards
in 10 plays behind alternate
quarterback Phil Procacci who led
the march almost single-handedly.
First downs
Net yd. rush
Net yd.   pass
Total yards
Passes attempt
Completed
Intercepted by
Punts
Avg. distance
Fumbles lost
Yards penalized
Len.
15
98
134
232
37
16
1
10
37
1
107
Penn
10
142
62
204
25
8
2
7
42
2
25
LEHIGH
Ends   --   Gill,   Impink,  Maddox,   Ellis,
Cornish, Aylsworth, Berger.
Tackles   --   Harmatz, Jamula, Gielen,
Buchinski.Benfield, Gabrielson,Romanow.
Guards — Grathwohl, Huzyak, Derwin,
Melley,Revta, Smith, Fie mine, Johnstone,
Clayton, Nicholson.
Center -- Hill.
Backs -- Wilsker, Eby, Stock, Scheib,
Barth, Grant, Shaughnessy, Pa<ret, Nixon,
Diorio, Waldman, Rizzo, Hitz,Harrington.
PENN
Ends -- Luciano, Batch, Corbin, Shead,
Rice, Connell, Sgro, Cowan.
Tackles -- Italiano, Curley, Klitch,
Chizmadia, Fisher, Flanagan, Kaupp,
Smugersky.
Guards -- Riley, Bray, Malloy, Armao,
Adams, Oakerson, Biallas, Fuddv, Luke,
Rishkofski.
Centers -- Farrell, Heffernan.
Backs -- Micir, Procacci,Shue,Lea\itt,
Visokey, Hall, Cook, Lon?, Hoffman,
Meller, Wilson, Dawson, Roberts,
Gillogly, Greene, Lipka, Solow, Welsh,
Kenoyer, Brumbach, Jez.
Lehigh     0      0      0      0-- 0
Penn       0    21      0      3—24
Penn -- Solow, 84 punt return, Berry
kick.
Penn -- Dawson, G pass from Procacci,
Berry kick.
Penn    --    Micir,    1    run,   Berrv   kick.
Penn -- Berry, 33 FG.
He completed passes of nine and
24-yards, carried around right
end on a 22-yard pickup and threw
five yards to halfback Ron Dawson
for the touchdown.
A controversial pass-interference call late in the fourth
quarter, which gave Penn the ball
on Lehigh's 27, set the stage for
the winners' final points. The
Quakers could move only six yards
in three downs and Eliot Berry,
whose pair of field goals beat
Lehigh 13-7 last season, booted a
38-yarder. In the third period he
had been short on a 50-yard try.
Lehigh spent most of the day
grinding out yardage between its
goal line and midfield, hurt considerably by a strong Penn punting
game and the 107 yards of penalties.
The Engineers' best march came
at the start of the third period
when they fought from their own
25 to the Quaker 31 before giving
up the ball on downs.
Quarterback Ron Wilsker completed a 17-yard toss to Rizzo for
the biggest pickup and also threw
seven yards to split end Jerry
Berger and three yards to tight
end Dave Gill. Eric Waldman,Jack
Paget and Andy Hitz were effective
on the ground in this surge.
Waldman, Paget and Hitz played
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