LEHIGH VALLEY FLASHBACK

By Morning Call Staff

A look back at Lehigh Valley sports stories over the years from Oct. 16.

1971: Lafayette jumps out to a 17-0 lead at Franklin Field and hangs on for a 17-15 win over

Penn and former Leopards coach Harry Gamble, who left College Hill for Philadelphia after the 1970 season. It’s the Leopards’ first victory over Penn since an 8-6 win in 1923 and snaps a 16-game losing streak to the Quakers, including a 31-20 loss in 1970. 1971: Sophomore quarterback Kim McQuilken completes five of his six passes for 213 yards, including a school-record 81-yard touchdown pass to Jack Rizzo, and combines with backup Cliff Ely for a school-record 338 passing yards in Lehigh’s 4620 win over Drexel. The win gives the Engineers five victories, their most in a year since 1960.

1966: A standing-room-only crowd of more than 10,000 fans turn out for the first Modified stock car program at the new Nazareth Speedway, watching Frankie Schneider of Lambertsville, New Jersey, take the lead on the final lap and win the 50-lap stock car feature by two lengths. The three-year construction project produces a 1½ -mile D-shaped track, the largest such course east of Indianapolis and north of Daytona. Track officials say the new track will complement, not replace, the existing ½-mile dirt oval.