Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 16

              see frosh page 8 the lehigh-lafayette weekend will officially begin this evening with a pep rally scheduled for 7:30 on the lower floor of grace hall during the rally the skit con test winners and the song con test winner will be presented to the public the winners of the skit contest were decided last evening by a faculty board of judges immediately after the pep fete the students will move over to the upper field for the bonfire built by the freshman class this year the fire will have to send its flames to the 62 foot mark in honor of the class of 62 when the fire has burned the freshmen will form a parade dressed in the traditional pajamas and march with their section banners to moravian once there they will serenade the girls and then disperse to find a ride home on saturday from 12 noon till into a cauldron in which his spots will disappear out out damn spot appears on the lawn of alpha tau omega a cat on a hot tin roof of beta theta pi will be heated by an engineer who stokes the fire at the door of the house i'm gonna scrub that leopard see 12 page 3 for the umpteenth straight year coach bill leckonby rates tomor row's anything-can-happen-and-usually-does contest between lehigh and lafayette a toss-up a capacity crowd of almost 20,000 is expected at fisher field easton for the 94th meeting between the two clubs game time is 1:30 p.m leckonby asserted that an all-out effort is needed if the engineers are to win their 33rd victory in the historic rivalry that dates back to 1884 leckonby emphasized that his team could ill afford to fall behind early in the game and hope for a late rally to win we must stay with lafayette throughout the entire game come through with an all out effort and make our own breaks leck onby said a victory tomorrow would give the 11 seniors the honor of being the first senior class to win all its games over the leopards in three years of college ball the seniors of 1952 were the last class to win three straight games from their arch-rivals the 11 seniors seeing their final game in the brown and white uni form a re captain and right halfback charlie burger shaker heights o tackle bill beattie philadelphia center tom deflavls abington pa halfback dick hunt white plains n y fullback ron lauret ti newville pa dave nevil stroudsburg pa halfback john o'ryan bronxville n y guard fran schaeffer easton pa guard john stanley glenn rock n j guard stanley stoney chagrin falls o and end joe wenzel yonkers n y the scanning of comparative scores would seem to indicate that lafayette is a little stronger both teams edged past delaware by a point lehigh tied gettys burg while the maroon won by a late touchdown against buck nell lafayette won by one more touchdown and the maroon loss to rutgers was small these comparative scores normally mean little and in a rivalry such as lehigh lafayette they mean even less lafayette is mainly a ground team although the leopards have taken to the air at times this year see 11 page 14 knute rockne of wrestling billy sheridan to address rally achievement judges whose names will not be revealed until after to night's judging will look for orig inality quality of workmanship and mechanical inventiveness lehigh is laughing yet is the theme of alpha chi rho this display features a dead leop ard and a scoreboard indicating the desired score of tomorrow's game alpha sigma phi will have a leopard which climbs up a ladder and dives a tank at the base of the ladder is removed as the leopard takes a dive two witches will dip a leopard by george reiser thirty fraternities and two resi denec halls will boil broil cook fry and roast mostly by means of a hot tin roof — the lafayette leopard tonight as they vie for the first place award in the annual lafay ette display contest twelve fraternities will use cat on a hot tin roof as the theme for their displays the leopard will also be sub jected to the heat of electricity will be crushed stamped on and an nihilated in general by the displays the winning living group will re ceive a plaque to commemorate its see fool page 11 but he believes a little horseplay is a part of college life i don't like these fussbodies who want to throw the boys in the hoosegow for every little thing the boys today are gentlemen com pared t us he remembers the year a lehigh bmoc snatched everybody s grandaddy mr lehigh billy sheridan at home with one of his eight grandchildren leslie finger billy coached the varsity wrestling team for 43 years by bob grinchuk one man will rate a standing ovation at the pep rally tonight — even from the 700 freshmen who only know of him by reputation this remarkable show of enthusiasm will be for billy sheridan lehigh s knute rockne of wrestling billy who makes an annual appear ance at the rally coached the wrestling team for 40 years billy who probably embodies the lehigh ideal of sportsmanship and scholarship more than any other man won 13 eastern collegiate wrestling association titles developed 59 eastern collegiate champions five national champions five national aau winners and three wrestlers who competed on olympic teams three years ago billy said he was turned out to pasture it was rough on him the first year but now he's reconciled to just see what goes on you'd be a fool to live in the past he says today at 74 billy is still as interested as always in lehigh his main interest is still there too — wrestling it's in my blood for more than 40 years billy's watched lehigh grow from a school of 500 with packer hall as the only im posing structure to a university with 3,000 men and scattered buildings i'm proud to be associated with it he says the boys are getting finer and finer on the average they're better than their dads my lawyer please dick legrand with l on head and dick teeter use heads as exhibit a they visited the lafayette campus early thursday morning and got caught the leopard barber did the rest vol 70 no 16 friday nov 21 1958 engineers at easton tomorrow for 94th game vs leopards big brown will seek 33rd win in series bethlehem pa rally tonight will inaugurate weekend events shades of univac — atos work on the behind-the-scenes machinery which will activate their mac bethian display this was a familiar scene at fraternities who are vying for first prize display award leopards to take the rap as greeks vie for award lehigh university brown and white