WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Welcome back to our celebration of 200 moments, memories, coaches and student-athletes from the history of Lycoming College athletics. In this seventh series of moments, we take a look at the emergence of both the school's soccer program and swimming program, while also looking at the development of the men's basketball team into a force in the Middle Atlantic Conference along with one of the biggest upsets in the football program's history.

With no more ado, here are moments 61-70 in our series of 200:

61. Fred Feigley, 1960-63 – The second men’s soccer player in school history to earn All-Middle Atlantic Conference honors, Fred Feigley was the most prolific scorer in school history. Although he struggled with injuries during his senior season, Feigley still managed to finish his career with 39 goals in 35 games. In fact, he is still first in school history with an average of 1.11 goals per game and his 2.23 points per game is second, although records of assists during his career have not been found. Forty-eight years after his graduation, Feigley’s 39 goals are fourth in school history and his 78 points are sixth. Feigley’s record for career goals stood for 33 years before the mark was surpassed in 1996. As a freshman in 1960, he became the first person in school history to post 10 goals in a season and he added 14 goals in 1961, helping him earn Second Team All-MAC Northern Division honors. Feigley was inducted into the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.

62. Walt Manning, 1960-64 – A member of the second recruiting class under head coach Mort Rauff, Walt Manning was a local product that developed throughout his career as a Warrior. By the time he was a junior, Manning had become the team’s strongest swimmer and team captain. He scored a team-high 117 points  during the season and finished in fifth at the MAC Championships in the 100-yard freestyle to help the program score its first team points in school history at the event as the team finished in 10^th place. As a senior in 1964, he was even stronger, winning the school’s first MAC titles in the 200-yard individual medley (2:18.1) and the 100-yard butterfly (00:55.7). He also finished second in the 100-yard freestyle (0:52.7) as he helped the team jump to third at the meet with 62 points. After Lycoming, Manning moved on to become an Associate Dean in the School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Memphis. He was inducted into the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1989.

63. Men’s Tennis, 1961 – Nels Phillips took over a men’s tennis team in 1960 that had an up-and-down existence since the program began in 1948. In 1959, the team enjoyed its first winning season since 1951 and it was just the beginning of the most sustained period of success in the program’s history. Phillips led the team to a 6-4 record in 1960, setting up a record-setting year in 1961. The team posted a 10-1 record under second-year head coach Phillips, setting a record for wins that has only been matched once, in 2010, since. The team was led by Chum Politt, Dave Mitchell, George Gramley, Volker Durr, Joe Bunce and Dave Travis. After a season-opening loss to Albright, the Warriors posted a school-record 10 straight wins, beginning with an 8-1 win over Elizabethtown and ending with a  6-3 win over Lebanon Valley. The Warriors posted nine straight winning seasons from 1959-68 under Phillips and Bunce and Mitchell went on to earn induction into the Athletics Hall of Fame.

64. Ron Knoebel, 1961-65 – Forty-five years later, it’s hard to say how truly amazing the legacy of Ron Knoebel and his impact on the lives of all those in Central Pennsylvania has been. It’s hard to imagine summers without the amusement park his father, Harry, opened in 1926, and it’s even harder to imagine what Knoebels Grove would be like if a few of the traditions that have been kept alive at the park, like free admission, had changed during the years that Ron Knoebel has helped run it. However, in 1962, Knoebel was just entering the Warriors’ starting lineup as a driven sophomore at 130 pounds after wrestling behind NAIA All-American Lee Wolfe in 1961-62. Knoebel took fourth in the first NCAA College Division Wrestling Tournament at Northern Iowa to earn All-American honors. In 1964, he won his first of two MAC titles after moving up to 137 pounds. As a senior, he earned his second All-American honors with a win in the quarterfinals of the NCAA College Division and then went on to take the 137-pound title with a 6-0 win over Jim Rush of Western State College, becoming the first NCAA champion in school history. He was a member of the first induction class of the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1986.

65. 1965-66 Men’s Basketball Team – In his fourth year as head coach of the men’s basketball team, Clarence “Dutch” Burch completed the rebuilding process by transforming the Warriors into a high-flying offensive-minded team. A stretch of 12 wins in 13 games to wrap up the regular-season helped the Warriors clinch their first MAC Northern Division title, with the team wrapping up the title with an 89-74 win over Dickinson, as Dick O’Donnell scored 30 points to help the team clinch the title with two games left in the season. In the team’s first playoff game, though, the Warriors fell to Albright, 76-68, at St. Joseph’s Fieldhouse in Philadelphia in the MAC  Northern Division Championship. Still, the team posted a 16-5 record, its best since the 1950-51 season and the Warriors made the Hilltop Gymnasium a frightening place to play for opponents, as the team finished 8-0 at home. Ron Travis, a senior forward, earned the league’s Player of the Year award after averaging 21.0 points and a league-best 15.9 rebounds per game and O’Donnell earned first-team all-league honors after averaging 16.2 points and 9.4 rebounds per game. Guard Bud Frampton added 17.0 points and 3.2 rebounds per game. All three players earned spots in the athletics hall of fame, with Travis being inducted in 1986, O’Donnell in 1988 and Frampton in 1997.

66. Sam Schoenfeld Sportsmanship Award, 1966 – One of the hallmarks of the teams  coached by Dutch Burch was their high character, and that was exemplified by the team receiving four Sam Schoenfeld Sportsmandship Awards from the Collegiate Basketball Officials of America. The first of the four awards came in 1965-66, as the Harrisburg officials recognized the team with the award as the Warriors took their first MAC Northern Division regular-season crown. The team also picked up the award in 1974 from the Harrisburg officials and earned it from the Lehigh Valley-Scranton officials in 1986 and 1994. In 1994, as Burch capped off his career, the Warriors won the overall Schoenfeld Award, for all 11 regions in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the CBOA.

67. Jack Hodgins, 1965-66 – Although he spent just two years in the water with the men’s swimming team, Jack Hodgins left his mark on the program by setting a record of three MAC Championships that took 39 years to break as Steve Hawley finally surpassed the record in 2005. Hodgins, as a freshman, helped lead the Warriors to the best season in its 10 years of existence, as he led the Warriors to an 11-1 dual meet record and a second straight third-place finish at the MAC Championships. He won his first two MAC titles in the process, winning the 200-yard freestyle and the 200-yard individual medley titles while finishing third in the 100-yard freestyle. As a sophomore, Hodgins continued to star, again winning the 200-yard individual medley, becoming the Warriors’ first back-to-back MAC Champion in school history.

68. Bill Bachardy, 1966 – The only NCAA Division I All-American in school history, Bill Bachardy wrapped up his four-year wrestling career at Lycoming College with one of the best comebacks in school history. An All-American as a junior, Bachardy served as a team captain and leader in 1966, helping the team to an 8-2 record. However, after finishing third at 167 pounds at the MAC Championships when he was pinned in the semifinals, Bachardy refocused for the last month of the season. In the NCAA Small College Championships, the Flemington, N.J., native posted pins in each of his first two matches before he notched a 7-0 win over John Kain of South Dakota. In the finals, he stayed just as dominating, posting a 9-2 win over Eastern Michigan’s Bob Ray for the school’s fourth national champion. He followed that by earning the No. 6 seed at the NCAA Wrestling Championships at Iowa State, posting a first-round major decision before falling in the quarterfinals. In the consolation bracket, though, he posted a pair of wins to take fourth and earn his third career All-American nod. He was elected into the Lycoming College Athletics Hall of Fame in 1987.

69. Reaching the finals, March 1, 1968 – Just two years after reaching the MAC Northern Division playoffs for the first time in school history, Dutch Burch had the team back in the playoffs in 1968 with a playoff experienced team. Led by All-MAC guard Terry Buchanan and 20-point-per-game scorer Sam Brasington, the Warriors headed for Reading, Pa., for the semifinals after finishing with a 12-4 conference mark to take second in the league, where they faced Delaware Valley in the semifinals. Lycoming took a 42-33 lead at halftime, but 12 minutes into the second half, the Aggies fought back to take a 54-53 lead. While the teams fought through two ties and a pair of lead changes, the Aggies pulled within a point at 65-64. In the last minute, both teams struggled from the line, but Brasington hit a driving layup to ensure the three-point win for the Warriors’ first playoff win in school history. However, in the finals, Wagner College downed the Warriors, 90-70, to win the league title.

70. Ending Wilkes’ streak, Sept. 26, 1970 -  After a season-opening 7-0 loss to Albright, the Warriors, led by fourth-year head coach Budd Whitehill, headed to Wilkes on a hot September day of 1970 looking to end Wilkes’ 31-game MAC winning streak. In the first half of the game, Wilkes took a 10-0 lead, but the Warriors fought back, with quarterback Gunther Nellen hitting receiver Nick Tabolinski with an 11-yard touchdown pass. After another Wilkes touchdown made it 16-7, the Warriors got an interception and Tom Hinkle wrapped up a 35-yard drive with a score to make it 16-14. Vince Joy gave the Warriors the lead when he notched a 43-yard interception return for a touchdown to make it 21-16. In the second half, the defenses took over and the Warriors allowed just a field goal to provide the final two-point margin of victory. Amazingly, it was Wilkes’ first loss at Ralston Field, which opened in 1965, a span of 19 games before the Warrior win. Hinkle led the Warriors with 49 yards on the ground, helping lift the Warriors to one of the largest upsets in the school’s collegiate era. 

We hope you enjoyed our seventh look at 200 Memories. Stay tuned on Friday, Nov. 25, as moments 71-80 will be released, with moments capturing the period from 1971-1974, including the men’s basketball team’s all-time leading scorer and the beginning of the career for a Lycoming legend.

As always, if you feel we missed an event or two that can be deemed a memorable moment or a memorable student-athlete, please share them. Tell us why they are special and any information you may have about that moment or person by contacting Sports Information Director Joe Guistina at guistina@lycoming.edu. Special addendums with your feedback will be released following the conclusion of the list in 2012.