Four to join Penske/Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame
4/17/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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A true multi-sport star, Al Cox was a four-year letter winner in football, basketball, and baseball at Lehigh. A baseball team captain and basketball forward, Cox truly made his mark on the gridiron, where he was the team’s halfback and quarterback. Cox finished sixth nationally in passing as a senior, and was an All-East and All-Pennsylvania honorable mention. Cox earned his degree in civil engineering in 1940. He passed away in 1973.
Lehigh’s all-time leading scorer upon graduation, Bill Griffin was a four-year starting guard on the basketball team.
The Lehigh tennis team dominated the MAC conference in the late 1950s in large part due to the play of Lowell Latshaw. Latshaw posted an undefeated singles record in his three seasons on the courts for the Brown and White, on his way to MAC titles and a city of
The first grappler to win a national title under legendary head coach Thad Turner, Tom Sculley is one of just eight Lehigh wrestlers to post an undefeated season in the last forty years. Sculley was a remarkable 26-0-1 in 1974 en route to a championship at 134 pounds. A four-year starter and two-time EIWA conference champion, Sculley earned his bachelor’s in business and economics from Lehigh in 1976.
Formal induction into the Roger S. Penske/Lehigh Athletics Hall of Fame will take place on Saturday, May 6, and the induction is sponsored by the Lehigh Athletics Partnership. For more information, please contact Barb Turanchik ’75 at (610) 758-3132 or bat0@lehigh.edu.
