Brown and White Vol. 65 no. 17

              again this year the fraternities on and off campus went all out with their displays for the traditional le high-lafayette football classic thci engineers displayed the best of their talents in designing numerous me chanical and artistic representations of what was hoped to be the out come of the game this year's first and second place awards as judged by f gordon payrow city council member robert kirkpatrick editor of the globe-times and norman j canfield manager of the hotel bethlehem went to phi sigma kappa and sigma phi epsilon respectively the phi sigs combined sight with sound in a display centered around a model of a television set the ac tion occurred in 3 minute cycles and featured specially prepared slides projected from behind the tv set depicting various scenes from the game all the elements of a real game were there including a commercial for lord byron rye a recording gave forth the sounds of the crowd and the band along with the an nouncer for the game as the game ended the screen showed the lafayette eagle tak ing off in disgust from the 50 yard line only to get fouled in the tv antenna on the roof of the house as the eagle was floodlighted from the rooftop the tv set showed a pair of rather frightened eyes — the only image that could get through the interference the bird finally extricated from the an tenna hobbled back to the lafayette campus on crutches to the strains of see display page 5 debaters win 5 lose 3 in first tourney of year opening the 1953-54 season varsi ty debaters emerged from a tourna ment at muhlenberg saturday with a five won-three lost record and were rated seventh in a field of 17 teams the tournament topic was resolved that the united states should adopt a policy of free trade using the orthodox style of de bating consisting of a 10-minute speech by each participant follow ed by a five-minute break for con ference and concluding with five see debate page 6 freshmen get facts bludgeon leopard frosh by ira scharfer striking hard in the first minutes of play lafayette ran up a 33-13 score on lehigh before 15,500 fans at taylor stadium saturday the leopards scored twice in the first six minutes of play and lehigh nev er got back in the ball game bryan satterlee led the maron attack which amassed 383 yards rushing and 132 yards passing satterlee passed for two of the lafayette scores and ran 87 yards for one of the others in the 89th renewal of the na tion's longest unbroken grid ri valry lehigh was unable to do what four other lehigh squads had also failed to do — beat laf ayette four consecutive times in four different years lafayette rocked lehigh in the first seconds of the game by pulling a sleeper play after returning the opening kickoff to their own 27 the leopards lined up quickly without a huddle and had end tom mcgrail split to the right side line with the team in a spread formation the ball was snapped to satterlee he passed to mcgrail who was all by himself down field mcgrail caught the pass and was brought down from behind by en gineer quarterback gloede on the lehigh 13 two penalties put the ball back to the lehigh 38 where satterlee took a reverse from quar terback gene harrison and passed to end bob burcin in the end zone the extra point try was no good lehigh took the lafayette kickoff and it looked as if the engineers would put themselves right back in the ball game when they drove down to the maroon 12-yard line with wal ters and westfall picking up most of the yardage gloede tried a pass from the 12 which mcgrail intercepted on the la fayette 10 after the ball had been carried to the 13 satter lee broke through left tackle and went 87 yards for the touch down before six minutes of the tradi tional game had passed lafayette had a 13-0 lead see satterlee page 10 filmed version lafayette game on uhf tonight if anyone is interested in watch ing the gruesome details again a filmed version of lafayette's victory will be presented over wlgv chan nel 57 at 9:30 tonight the easton uhf station had its cameramen at taylor stadi um saturday to take movies of the entire proceedings the edit ed 45-minute program will eli minate only time-outs and par ticularly slow action those not having television sets converted to uhf can watch the program on the set in drown hall richards 11-a won the skit contest at the annual pre-lafayette pep ral ly attended by more than 2,500 per sons in grace hall friday night president martin d whita ker and coach william leckon by were the featured speakers of the evening president whita ker told the gathering which in cluded 1,000 pajama clad fresh men and upperclassmen we are well on the way to get this weekend on the road i've been all around town tonight and i have seen the trouble the leop ard is in the team and the coaches are properly trained for the game and we expect them to do what they have been trained to do after eight years i certainly ap preciate the ovation leckonby said i don't think that it is de served usually at this time of the year i am asked how do we look for tomorrow well we look good the squad is in the best mental con dition i have seen it in eight years and i think they'll do a good job for you tomorrow captain tom gunn told the audi ence of the teams determination to have a winning season phi sigma kappa's winning display featured a tv set complete with pictures and sound the action occurring in 3 minute cycles depicted scenes from an imaginary lehigh-lafayette football game by using specially prepared slides and records a retaliatory lafayette attack on the bonfire early friday morning was smashed by an alert group of freshmen following a preconceived plan of defense the story you are about to read is true — only the names have been changed to protect the freshmen this is the campus my name is joe dink i work out of cabinet the raids this week have been rough i know — i'm a freshman da-da-da-dun 6 p.m — loading wood on bonfire we got a call — suspicious cars seen in vicinity we checked 7 p.m — molotov cocktails found hidden in bushes spotted lafayette students in small groups 8:45 p.m — got a call from bethehem police — a 100-man raiding party reported in east on cops stopped most of them 1 a.m — things really started hap pening five freshman prowl cars alerted to stop incoming raiders caught eight leopard freshmen gave them haircuts 1:30 a.m — most of the dormitory men now on the field lafayette tried infiltrating we played a hunch and stopped them — checked id cards two more invading frosh got haircuts — passed out from fright turned remaining captives over to bethlehem police 4:30 a.m — all quiet we saved our bonfire — lafayette didn't the pajama-clad brown and white band is shown leading the freshmen in their annual toll-free trek across the new st bridge to serenade femsem the scalps on the sign in the foreground were collected from lafayette frosh the night before ; tuesday november 24 1953 brown and w hite volume 65 — number 17 lehigh university bethlehem pa maroon romps 33-13 phi sig's tv set wins scalped . . . snow ball dec 5th admission 2.20 featuring the music of matt gillespie and his orchestra the 53 edition of the snow ball dance will be held dec 5 between 10 p.m and 1 a.m admission price is 2.20 per couple tickets will be sold in the dorms and fraternities the week before the dance as well as in christmas-saucon hall dec 4 and 5 and at the door saturday night sponsored by the sophomore class the informal dance will have a dec oration scheme of blue and white couples will enter through the door of an igloo which is now being con structed two snow men will flank the band stand and a canopy of stars and snowflakes will be overhead plans have been made for re freshments door prizes and other entertainment during in termissions coke hatcheck and picture concessions will be op erated overall chairman of the dance is preston seidel president of the sophomore class committee chair men are bill luce decorations bob heidenreich entertainment and dick cogswell publicity lafayette's plan to light bonfire foiled by police richards ii-a wins skit the bethlehem police led by capt john stefanik foiled an at tempt by lafayette students to set off the lehigh bonfire early last thursday morning the police received the infor mation from the attendant at the new st bridge that four cars full of lafayette students had crossed the bridge toward the campus having been warned the police started a search for the four cars and finally picked them up at the corner of fifth and fillmore sts they were then taken to headquar ters where the police made the four drivers put up 13.50 as bail on a disorderly conduct charge the rest of the lafayette students were given a lecture and warned not to be found here again