South Mountaineer Volume 12, Issue 14

              Cagers In Busiest Week Of Year
Published by the Alumni Student Grants Committee, Lehigh University Alumni Association
Vol. 12 - No. 14
FEBRUARY 2, 1970
BETHLEHEM, PENNA.
Wrestlers [6-1) Shine On Road
Pitt Matmen
Jolted 22-14
Rolling along on the momentum
of a successful midwestern trip,
Lehigh wrestlers resumed EIWA
competition Saturday with a convincing victory over Pittsburgh
on the losers' mat, 22-14.
Co-captain Dick Meyer, 126
pounds, and 177-pounder Steve
Shields had pins against the
Panthers and heavyweight Gary
Leinberger scored a 9-0 victory
over Dave Young for his seventh
triumph in seven meets.
In raising their seasonal mark
to 6-1 the Engineers had to wage
an uphill struggle after Pitt had
gained an 11-5 advantage with
triumphs at 118, 134 and 142
pounds.
Lehigh winners, in addition to
Meyer, Shields and Leinberger,
were 150-pound soph star Herb
Campbell, 158-pounder Rick
Bacastow and 167-pounder Jack
Bentz.
Meyer put the Engineers on the
scoreboard first when he
flattened Tom Grant in 3:37.
Lehigh couldn't add to its total
until Campbell came along with a
7-0 trouncing of Pat Lavery.
Bacastow's 3-0 shutout of Buddy
Morris pulled the Engineers even
at 11-11 in the meet.
Bentz  followed  with  an  18-6
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Coach's Comment
"Winning two out of three in
the midwest, and then defeating
Pittsburgh, gives us a 6-1 season
record and plenty of good experience. We have some of our
toughest meets still to wrestle,
though, and we must continue to
improve/'. . ,Gerry Leeman,
wrestling.
I
GARY LEINBERGER
Reception
After Meet
Lehigh alumni clubs of
Washington, D.C., and Maryland,
are making plans to attend the
Lehigh-Navy wrestling meet at
Annapolis, Md., Saturday, Feb.
7, and hold a post-meet reception
in the Decatur Room of the Naval
Academy Officers Club.
Lehigh and Navy, two of the
East's top mat squads, collide at
4 p.m. in the Middies' field house,,
James P. Klima, Jr. 1403 Newport Place, Lutherville, Md.,and
Lloyd O. Shirley, 4811. Crowson
Ave,, Baltimore, Md., are
president and treasurer, respectively, of the Lehigh Club of
Maryland.
James B. Swenson, 5208
Augusta St., and William A.
Furman, Jr., 715 Investment
Bldg., 15th and K Streets NW,
both Washington, D.C., are president and secretary, respectively,
of the Washington, D.C., Lehigh
Club.
Frosh Quintet Coasts
Past Albright, F&M
Lehigh's undefeated freshman
basketball squad (7-0) picked on
Albright and Franklin and
Marshall for a pair of decisive
victories.
Paced   by   Bob   Planker,   Bob
Planker 9-6-8-24, D'Agosta 3-2-9-8,
Wisniewski 2-2-f>-6, Zelickson 5-5-8-15,
Lloyd 3-3-3-9, Neumann 3-0-0-6, Howard
l_0-l-2, Hutton 1-0-0-2, Corbett 1-4-4-6,
Grant 1-0-3-2, Clausen 3-0-2-6, Johnson
0-2-4-2, Carpenter 3-1-3-7. Totals:
35-25-50 — 95.
F. & M. Fr.
Nelson 0-3-4-3, Cosmetti 0-0-1-0,
Brunner 0-0-2-0, Valentine 6-9-12-21,
Brooks 2-7-10-11, Beach 5-1-5-11,
Williams 3-3-5-9, Intravia 0-0-0-0, Lucas
0-0-0-0, Durham 0-0-0-0, Ryan 1-1-3-3,
Lydecker 1-2-5-4. Totals: 18-26-47--62.
Halftime: Lehigh, 45-34.
D'Agosta, Hank Wisniewski,Dick
Zelickson and Larry Lloyd, the
Little Engineers won 84-66 over
the Lions and 95-62 over the
Diplomats.
ALBRIGHT
Jablonski 0-0-0-0, Schwabenland 4-2-2-
10, Krimmel 2-1-1-5, Druckenmiller
1-2-2-4, Benenati 4-7-8-15, Hobbs
3-0-1-6, Kuhn 3-2-3-8, Hadlev 3-3-3-9,
Heins 1-0-0-2, Sharpe 1-2-2-4, Radtke
1-1-2-3, Griedel 0-0-0-0, Munick
0-0-1-0. Totals: 23-20-25--66.
LEHIGH
L. Lloyd 3-0-1-6, D'Agosta 5-2-5-12,
Wisniewski 9-2-4-20, Zelickson 7-3-3-17,
Planker 5-2-2-12, Grant 1-0-0-2, Carpenter 1-1-1-3, Neumann 2-0-0-4, Corbett
1-0-0-2, Johnson 1-0-0-2, Howard 0-0-
0-0, Hutton 0-0-0-0, Clausen 1-2-2-4.
Totals: 36-12-18--84.
Halftime: Lehigh, 38-28.
Officials: Donnangelo and Davis.
Midwestern
Trip Success
Lehigir s wrestling invasion of
the midwest, Jan. 24-27, came off
successfully as the Engineers
downed Mankato, Minn., State,
19-18, and the University of Minnesota, 22-13, following a 26-5
setback at the hands of NCAA
champion Iowa State.
Gary Leinberger, who took an
undefeated and untied record on
the journey, preserved his perfect mark with three decision
triumphs. Six other undefeated
grapplers were downed for the
first time.
Leinberger, at heavyweight,
and 177-pounder Steve Shields
were heroes of a winning comeback effort against Mankata after
the Engineers went into the last
three bouts on the program trailing   15-11.
Shields put Lehigh ahead witha
crucial fall over Tom Linzmeier
in the first period and, after 190-
pounder Al Nicusanti dropped a
verdict, Leinberger recaptured
the meet for the Engineers witha
5-2 victory.
EIWA champion Jack Bentz,
who had seen a 17-meet winning
streak ended at Iowa State, came
back with a 6-0 decision at Mankato to set the stage for the
Shields-Leinberger heroics.
Leinberger was 3-0 on the trip
while Bentz, Shields and sophomore star Herb Campbell posted
2=1 marks, Dick Meyer and Dave
Icenhower were 1-1-1 with Randy
Biggs 1-2, Rick Bacastow 0-2-1
and Jay Leeman and Nicusanti
each 0-3.
Bentz bowed to Dave Martin
of Iowa State, 4-2, for only the
second loss in his dual meet career. Martin, with a pair of escapes around a takedown by
Bentz, hung doggedly to the Engineer star for the entire third
period and picked up the time
points he needed to win.
Campbell, although losing 23-3
to Iowa State's Dan Gable who's
rated the finest collegiate mat-
man in the nation, earned a standing ovation at A me s, Iowa, for going the distance. Gable was
shooting for a 26th straight fall
and a national television crew was
on hand to record the feat. Gable
flattened every Big Eight Conference opponent last season and
had thrown his first 14 rivals during 1969-70 action.
Icenhower had a draw at Iowa
State which was the only Lehigh
scoring until Leinberger won the
final bout of the program 8-3
over Rex Smith.
Campbell, fast becoming a favorite with the Lehigh fans, shook
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GREG FALKENBACH
No Eleventh
Grid Game
Action taken by the National
Collegiate Athletic Assn. (NCAA),
permitting an increase to eleven
in the number of games a college
football team plays each season,
will have no effect on Lehigh's
gridiron program.
"Lehigh isn't considering an
eleventh contest," explained
William B. Leckonby, the University's director of athletics
who attended a convention in
Washington, D.C., at which the
NCAA announced its change in
policy.
"This is permissive legislation," he added. "Lehigh went to
a 10-game schedule in 1968 and
will continue to play that number
of contests."
Falkenbach
Sets Record
A record-breaking rebound
performance by 6-foot-7 sophomore Greg Falkenbach spiced
varsity basketball action last
week as Lehigh crushed non-
league opponents Albright, 93-69,
and Franklin and Marshall, 99-
71, to reach the .500 mark with
seven   victories   in   14   starts.
The Engineers faced their busiest nights of the season this week
with home contests against Bucknell on Monday, Muhlenberg on
Wednesday, Colgate on Friday
and Rutgers on Saturday.
Falkenbach, a former Bethlehem Catholic High School star,
had his finest game against
F. & M. with 25 rebounds and 19
points, both high figures for the
evening. He played only about half
the game as Coach Liz Heckman
substituted freely after his team
rushed to an early 20-point
advantage at   34-14.
The 25 rebounds topped a single
game mark of 23 established by
Jim Gleckner in 1955 and tied
by Dan Nolan and Bob Lowman
Falkenbach received a standing
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Coach's Comment
"We've been pointing for our
conference games all season and
winning the first four put us in
the driver's seat. Against
Albright and F. & M. the team
came „ back from a long layoff
and played pretty well.". . .Roy
Heckman, basketball.
Track Team Victorious
Over Cortland, 65-44
Lehigh showed enough strength
in the running events to carry the
Engineers to a 65-44 victory over
Cortland State.
Engineer runners won six of
nine track events, paced by Tim
Steel's double win in the mile
and 1,000-yard run, to give Coach
John Covert's indoor track team
a successful debut in dual competition.
Lehigh sprinters Neal Tarulli
and Al French tied for first in
the 60-yard high hurdles to set
a fieldhouse record in 7.6
seconds.
Steel was clocked in 4:27.0 for
the mile and 2:18.6 in the 1,000
yard run.
Bob Gulash won the 600 in
1:13.4 and also was part of the
two-mile relay team which won in
8:12.3
Other firsts were registered
by Roger Jackucewicz in the two-
mile run with the time of 9:35.8
and John Hill in the shot put with
a 51-foot, 3-inch toss.
Mile—1. Steele (L); 2. Heil (L) and
Strockbine (L) (tie); Time: 4:27.0.
60-yard dash--l. Devins (C); 2. Ramsey
(C); 3. Houtman (C). Time: 6.3.
600-yard run—1. Gulash (L); 2. DeFina
(C); 3. Home (L). Time: 1:13.4.
60-high hurdles—1. Tarulli (L) and
French (L) (tie); 3. Reinertson (C). Time:
7.6 (fieldhouse record).
300-yard dash--l. Champagne (C); 2.
Summa (L);  3. Houtman (C). Time: 33.2.
1,000-yard run--l. Steele (L); 2.Carney
(L); 3. Hines (C). Time: 2:18.6.
2-mile--l. Jackucewicz (L); 2.Nicholas
(L); 3. Detrick (L). Time: 9:35.8.
Mile relay--l. Cortland (Keough, Marvin, DeFina, Horton). Time: 3:38.8.
2-mile relay—1. Lehigh (Strockbine,
Heil, Gulash, Carney). Time: 8:12.3.
Long jump—1. Devin (C); 2. Shelley (L);
3. Keough (C). Distance: 21'i/2".
Pole vault—1. Drennan (C); 2. Harris
(L);   3.  Gosnell   (L).   Height:   13'6 3/4".
High jump—1. Alspaugh (C); 2.Suto(C);
3. Doney (L). Height: 6'2".
Shot put—1. Hill (L); 2. Derwin (L);
3. Benfield (L). Distance: 5V3".