The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 17

Kn OR SPORTS NEWS NEWS ALLENTOWN, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1946 SEVENTEEN Mules Crush Lehigh, 40-7, for Their Sixth Straight Wirt SUNDAY Sikorski Pulls Away from Lehigh Trio Held to 13-7 Half-time Lead Muhlenberg Rattles Off Four Colgate Gets Big 39-0 Decision Over Leopards As Red Raiders Run Wild i 5-f I I Wo School Monday!" As a result by Muhlenberg's de-sive 40 to 7 victory over Lehigh at Bethlehem yesterday afternoon, Muhlenberg students will get a holiday tomorrow. When Muhlenberg started to roll up its score on the Engineers in the second half yesterday, the chant started: "No School Monday!" "No School Monday!" "No School Monday!" Dr. Levering Tyson, Muhlenberg colleg president, in attendance at the game, announced in the final period that if Muhlenberg students refrained from making any efforts to remove the Lehigh goal posts after the game he would agree to a holiday tomorrow. No attempt was made to tear the goal posts down after the game, and Muhlenberg students accordingly will get a holiday tomorrow to celebrate their victory. Touchdowns in Last Half Close through the first half, the unbeaten Muhlenberg- college football team turned on the steam for four last half touchdowns yesterday afternoon co crush the Engineers of Lafayette university.

40 to 7, before an estimated had one intercepted. Colgate passed 1U.UUU spectators in Taylor stadium yesterday afternoon. In registering its sixth consecutive triumph this season, the galloping Mules dealt out the worst licking the Engineers have ever taken from Muh lenberg on the gridiron, the highest previous score recorded by Muhlenberg being the 31-6 triumrih of the 1926 season. Lehigh's stout forward wall gave I if I JSfiK EZTI i ii Lt I first half, but began to crumble in the tnird and leu apart in tne lourtn quarter when Muhlenberg tallied three touchdowns to definitely clinch the decision. Muhlenberg just had too many good backs for the Engineers to stop, for If they succeeded in bottling up any one or me MunienDerg Dau-toters somebody else would get loose.

And the statistics which show Muhlenberg gaining 236 yards to Lehigh's 41 in rushing and 174 to Lehigh's 26 in passing just Wilson Boro Is 13-7 Winner Over Pen Argyl High A strong second half Wilson Blue and Gold Warrior eleven proved too much for Pen Argyl yesterday after noon as Wilson came back to score two touchdowns and gain a 13-7 victory. Guerro went across for the Pen Argyl lone tally in the second period when he skirted his left end from the four yard line. Case converted and Pen Argyl held a brief 7-0 lead. Coach Walt Hick's charges came back in the third period as they tied the Slate Belt boys when Henry Haag fired a pass to Johnny Cromonic from the 16-yard line for the tally. Dick Walters converted and the score was 7-7.

Not content, Wilson came back in the final period for the game-winning touchdown. Henry Haag passed from the Pen Argyl 12 to Gerald Magnuson to the who then covered the re maining yardage to score. Walters' at tempt at the extra point was low and Wilson led 13-7. Fos. Wilson Pen Argyl L.E L.T Jory W.

Prendergast Squillaro Miller Grube Cesare Hughes Klinger G. R.G. R.T. RE. Castellano Tinney L.H....

Smith Kopko R.H. Guerro Stone Jory J. Wilson 0 0 7 613 Pen Argyl i 7 Touchdowns Querro. crominic. Magnuson.

Goals from touchdown Case, Walters. Substitutions: Wilson Getz. Kava-naugh. Sharlner. Claus, Fahs, Magnuson, Perruso, Haag, Finelli.

Pen Argyl Edwards. Fiorot. Vlckford, Venelli. Coscia, Pezzuto. Officials Everitt, Misero, Purdy.

Time of periods 12 minutes. Niagara Wins, 19-6 NIAGARA FALLS. N. Y. Nov.

2. (P) Niagara university defeated Waynes-burg (Pa.) college 19 to 6 today in a light rain before a crowd of 1,500 fans. It was Niagar's fourth victory in six starts. Muhlenberg plenty of trouble in that onensive strengtn oi tne two teams Statistics Tell Story Of Muhlenberg Triumph Over Lehigh's Engineers Lehigh M'berg First Downs Rushing ,.3 16 First Downs Passing 1 4 Yds. Gained Rushing 41 S36 Yds.

Gained Passing 26 174 Passes Attempted 22 21 Passes Completed 4 9 Op. Passes Intr. 1 Fumbles 1 Own Fumbles Rec'v'd 1 Penalties 3 1 Yds. Lost Penalties 25 75 the game, Mackin passed to Hal Ferk-is, a sub Muhlenberg back, good for 35 yards to Lehigh's 25, and after two plays lost six yards for the Mules, Mackin crashed off tackle and went 31 yards for a MunienDerg touchdown. There was only five seconds left to play, and when Roger Tolosky, second string Muhlenberg quarterback, crashed off tackle for the ex tra point, the ball game was over, with Muhlenberg a winner by a 40 to 7 score.

The lineups and sum mary: Pos. IVTnlil.nh.rz L.T.. Johnson Redline Kluce Murray Foster Jones Lasasso Husovsk; Case R.G.. R.T.. R.E..

L.H. R.H. Fisher Sikorsky Bast Muhlenhem 7 6 6 21 40 iehieh 7 0 7 Muhleribers scoring Touchdowns. Si korski. Crider 2.

Bibighaus. Mackin 2, nor Belli. Point after touchdown. Bark 3 (Dlacekicks). Tolosky (line Dlunsel.

Lehigh scoring: Touchdown. Fisher. Point after touchdown. Jones. Substitutions.

Muhlenberg: Baclcs. Barker. Mackin. Dean. Roveda.

Quint. Tolosky, Ferkis: Ends. Schreiber. Celian; tackles. Boedziewicz.

Beers. Dietz: guards. Lane, Moser. Substitutions. Lehigh: Backs, Jones.

Bella, Mitchell. Tomasic. Stevens. G. Jones.

Levine. LobeL Wilson; ends. Semmel. Den ham: tackles. Morton.

Heck, Bowman; guaids: J. Smith. Katchel. Connelly. Klementon.

Ditmar; centers. Baltrus. G. Heck. Baldwin.

Referee: George T. White. Bnstnn Col lege. Umpire: Irwin Weiss. Trenton Teachers.

Head linesman: Frank Barker. St. John's. Field Judge: Jose Marhefka. Lafayette.

Time of periods: 15 minutes. W. J. Scores 48-0 Win Over Carnegie Tech PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2.

OP) Dea con Dan Towler, lean Negro fullback from Donora, led Washington and Jefferson college to a resounding 48 to win over Carniegie Tech today as 10,000 fans sweltered in sunbaked Forbes field. The Presidents were as hot as the 90 degrees weather, running up 20 points in the first quarter against the Tartans who resumed football this season on an informal basis after a two-year Jaose. Towler, who ran and passed with abandon, scored three W. J. tallies.

Ed Grdenik, right tackle, booted the extra point on five of the seven Presi dent touchdowns. Tech, hopelessly outclassed, made its only scoring bid late in the fourth quarter when a series of short passes carried them to the W. A J. 22 before they lost the ball on downs. Pro Football Is With their fleet-footed backs reeling off long runs, the Colgate Red Raiders of Coach Andy Kerr romped roughshod over a helpless Lafayette eleven 39-C yesterday afternoon on Fisher field.

Easton, before 5,000 persons. Compiling three tallies in the first period, the Red Raiders coasted along to annex their win, adding single tallies in the second, third and final frames. Coach Kerr's charges were deprived of two scores when the Leopards staged two valiant stands within their own 5-yard line. With but four minutes of playing time elapsed Colgate gained possession of the ball after a kick on the Leopards 37. Gene Treichler, half back, slashed off a first down on the 25 on a reverse before Howard Baird fired an aerial to Al Fassnacht on the 8 yard stripe, with Fassnacht shaking loose two men to score.

Bob Orlando converted and the Raiders led 7-0. Fakine a reverse on his own 35, Frank Muelhauser, Raider fullback, sprinted 65 yards for paydirt the first time Colgate took possession of the Digskin after their initial score. The try for the point by Orlando was wide ana the Raiders lea 13-0. A bad snap from center by Lafayette set ur the third Colgate score as Frank Stanczak was forced to run with the ball, bein? nushed out of bounds on his own 34. Elving Nordmark picked up a first down on the 13 as he slid through center of the line.

He then shot a pass to Fassnacht on the 10 who went over standing up. Again Orlando's try for the point was wide and Colgate held a 19-0 lead. Nordmark, the 218-pound fullback of the Raiders, recovered a Lafayette miscue on the Leopard's 15 to set up another tally in the second period Three Dlays later after a 15-yard pen alty had set Colgate on the 31, Half back Walt McQuade passed to George Heddv to the 15. with the quarter back covering the remaining yardage to score. Orlando converted and the Raiders led 26-0.

A 54-yard Colgate drive was stopped cold on the one yard line when the Lafayette forward wall stiffened. La fayette then booted and the Raiders again marcnea deep into Leopard territory, only to be halted on the three yard stripe as the first half ended. Climaxing a see-saw third quarter, the Colgate eleven bounced back into the scoring column as they scored on last play when Baird passed 35 yards to Fassnacht for a tally. Orlando converted to widen the margin 33-0. Another Lafayette fumble paved the way for the final touchdown of the tussle, when Bob McGee bobbled the ball on his own 1.3.

Deprived of a score when officials detected clipping. the Raiders then took the airways from the 22 yard line as Ken Wheeler aerialed to Dick Vanderculte for the final six-pointer. Orlando's boot was no good and the final stood in favor of Colgate 39-0. A passing display was staged by both elevens in the game as Lafayette took to the air 32 times, completing 10 and 'J One Lehigh player, Tomasic, seemed to have a strangle hold on Eddie Sikorski, Muhlenberg ball -carrier, and two others are coming up fast, but the former Emmaus High star got away for ten-yard gain in the picture above in the early stages of the Lehigh-Muhlenberg game in Taylor stadium. ampton High gridders.

The Busters, fense. The line, led by two huge tackles, Sodl and Kratzer, is set to stop the pile driving Northampton ground attack and salvage some glory irom me iab campaign by defeating their neighborhood rivals who captured the first Lehigh Valley Conference championship. Signal and blackboard drills were the main things Coach Al Erdosy stressed for his squad of 31 ex-North- led by the speedy Miletics and Long-enbach and a hard charging line headed by Rovk Cehylik and Carl Reimer, are primed to keep their 1946 record clean. Other league clashes find the two Bethlehem elevens, Roseto, and Stew-artsville battling for third and fourth place in order to get into the playoffs which start next Sunday. TFdPFCdDATT! 17 umes.

comDieting seven. First downs stood in favor of Colgate 13 to 9. The lineups: fos. Lafayette Collate Trlckett (C) Fassnacht L.T..w.Schleer Redneld LO Alfieri Orlando 1C1 Bowman RG Hackett Bouck R-T Stacco RE Weisel Duckworth Magee Heddy Baird g.H.....Ciemnirkl Treichler F. Stanczak.

Muelheuser Lafayette 0 0 0 0 0 19 7 7 63 Touchdowns: Fassnacht 3, Muelhauser. Heddy, Vanderclute. Extra points, Orlando Substitutions: Colgate, lliff. Marburger. Veitch, Bricker.

McLaughlin. Kershaw, Matisi. Nordmark. Wheeler, McQuade. Gry.

giel, yollmer. Coven. Lampe. Vetrano. Karsi, Stankevich.

Hoffman. Reich, Steffler, Leary. Birkir.s. Vanderclute: Lafayette. Potter, Spazianl.

Eble. Blarejowski. Win-man, Gray. Boyko. Whiteman.

Shirley. Gremp. Zahurak. Mooradian, Pell. Ber.

genbach, Engels, Loiacano. Bisceglia. Skvoretz. Harkel. Perrotty.

Dutrey. Officials: Referee, H. Nelson McElroy. Spring, field college: umpire. Albert Barron.

Penn State: linesman. Leo Wemrot. Pennsylvania: fiield judge. Joseph Shane, swartnmore. Time of periods, IS minutes.

Delaware Whips F-M Diplomats By 28-0 Score LANCASTER, Nov. 5. OP) The University of Delaware stretched its undefeated football string through 27 games today by scoring a touchdown in every period to down Franklin and Marshall, 28 to 0, before homecoming fans. Bill Cole, substitute back, dashed 45 yards for Delaware's first touchdown and Gerry Doherty scampered 34 yards for another behind sharp blocking by his teammates. Delaware then took to the air for its third score, Paul Hart passing 28 yards to Hal Thompson.

The final tally came in the last 20 seconds when Tony Storti speared an F. and M. aerial and raced 35 yards. F. and M.

never seriously threatened to score, although it held the Delaware team even on first downs, seven to seven. Pos. Delaware Franklin and Marshall L.E....Haupt Viehman L.T....A. Stalloni Ireland L.G....Marusa Uattioia, Messick Wolfe Tickner R.T... Gabenslaben Wertx Buchanan Hornferk L.H Doherty Sweeney R.H Sposato Karl Hart Fultineer Delaware 7 7 7 7 2S F.

and 0 0 0 0 8 Valley League Has Four Games Scheduled Today The final scheduled games of the 1946 Lehigh Valley Football Confer ence finds four teams battling for the third and fourth spot in the league standing. The top four teams are eligible for play in the league's Shaughnessy playoff which starts next Sunday. The Northampton Conrete Busters, undefeated to date, won the championship last Sunday by knocking off its major rival, the Easton Castels. A hard luck Coplay eleven, which lost 4 games by the markin of one touchdowns each will face the newly crowned champs at Wolfe Stadium, Northampton, today at 2:30 p. m.

Not only has Coplay dropped four close decisions but the deciding scores were made in the last minute of play on three occasions and in the fourth, Easton tallied the winning touchdown in the last 29 seconds of the first half to win by a 7-6 score. Coach Spike Newhard sent his charges through three long scrimmages in an effort to bolster the of Post-Graduate about illustrates the difference in tne Saturday afternoon. Jack Crider, Muhlenberg Back irome Canton. and Harry Mackin, of Gloucester, N. led the Muhlenberg scoring assault with a pair of touch downs each, but the plav of Eddie Si rski, who suffered a shoulder injury in the first half and then came back into the game in the third period Pill Bell.

Rog Tolosky. Diz Dean and Hal Roveda were also outstanding in Muhlenberg's offense, while the pass-snatchine of Muhlenber's two ends, Kenny Moyer and George Bibighaus, also were features in the Muhlenberg triumph. Two Touchdowns Scored in First Three Minutes of Play The big crowd had been expecting fireworks, and was not disappointed, for before the game was three minutes old. each team had tallied a touchdown and the score was tied at 7-7. Muslenberg got its first touchdown early.

The first score was set up when Kenny Moyer intercepted a Lehigh forward pass and ran it back 25 yards to the Lehigh 25 On the first play here Crider cot loose to the 12, and Sikorski went to the 4. On the second play here Sikorski went across, and Bill Barker place-kicked the extra point to give the Mules a 7-0 advantage. Tom Fisher's 88 -Yard Run Ties Score for Lebigh The big crowd, stunned somewhat by Muhlenberg's quick touchdown, was electrified a few seconds later when Lehigh took the Muhlenberg kick-off, Tom Fisher, a Baltimore boy, wrapping his arms around the ball and skimming up along the sidelines 88 yards for a touchdown. R. Jones kicked the extra point, and the score wss tic fit 7 Later in the first period Muhlenberg went up to Lehigh's 26 where its attack stalled, but on the first play a Lehigh lateral was fumbled and rolled to the 12 yard line before being recovered by the Engineers.

When Lehigh, kicked off, Crider got loose for a 13-yard gain to the Lehigh 24 as the first period ended. Crider Goes Over to Put Muhlenberg Out Front With Crider. Sikorski and Mackin lugging the ball, the Mules went up to the one-yard line, from where Crider went across to put Muhlenberg ahead to stay. Barker missed the extra point, and Muhlenberg led, 13 to 7. That was the score" when the first half ended, and Lehigh was still very much in the ball game.

Mules Add Another T. D. In the Third Quarter With the start of the second half the Muhlenberg power began to as. sert Itself. After the kickoff, Crider got loose for a 20 yard run on the Lehigh 44 and then Bill Bell hit Bibighaus with a pass good for a first down on the Lehigh 17.

The Mules went up to the ten, and from here Bell let go with a pass that Bibighaus took on the one yard line and stepped over for a touchdown. Barker converted, but Muhlenberg was was penalized 15 yards on the try for point, and when Barker tried from the 17 the kick was blocked and the score was Muhlenberg 19; Le high 7. Near the close of the third pe rlod Muhlenberg stopped a Lehigh drive on the Mule 12, and on the first play here Mackin cot loose for a run of 24 yards to the 36, and a long pass, Mackin to Kenny Moyer, was good for 35 yards to the Lehigh 33. setting the stage for the first of three Muhlenberg scores in the final period. On the first play of that fourth period Bell went 20 yards to the high 13, and then Bell passed to Crider in the end zone for r.

touchdown, Crider being all alone as he took the toss. Barker's kick was good and Muhlenberg led, 26 to 7. A short time later Crider got loose for 14 yards to the Lehigh 31, and then Crider tossed to Mackin in the end Jsone, and Mackin snatched it out of the air with three Lehigh players around him for a touchdown. Barker's kick was good and Muhlenberg led, 33 to 7. MULES SCORE THEIR FINAL TALLY IN LAST TEN SECONDS Midway in the fourth period Crid-er's pass caught by Schreiber after several Lehigh players had juggled the ball, a gain of 31 yards, for a first down on Lehigh's 49, but that drive was halted by the Engineers, who took the ball on downs on their own 25.

Later, in the closing minutes of SPORTSMAN I er J. T. BEAMY FOOT itnen Jh by Home of When up his yours! Topcoats Now Moyer you the course. Scranfon Miners vs. Bethlehem Bulldogs Featuring nine former college captains, including former Lehigh Valley start: Walt.

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