Brown and White Vol. 31 no. 19

              pep luncheon great success price five cents brown presents good team new foot ball schedule may include new teams conquerors of harvard have had very successful season much spirit is shown at smoker gymnasium crowded beyond its capacity at pep gathering friday night lehigh eleven is ready parade despite rain were many good talks meeting in commons thursday did much to arouse spirit for big game powerful offensive of lafayette overpowers plucky lehigh team in closing minutes of game — score 13-3 mark lewin kicks goal from 40-yd next year's football schedule has not as yet been officially de cided upon however present indications are that lehigh will open the season as usual with gettysburg the soldiers will no doubt play us in taylor stadium on saturday october 4 the next game will in all proability be with princeton the contract for the game with the tigers has been made out and the le high authorities are merely waiting for it to be signed be fore the game will be definitely placed upon the schedule the manager is endeavoring to include dickinson in next year's schedule and if this can be arranged the annual game with rutgers will probably be played the following week the usual game with muhlenberg has also been placed upon the schedule for november first for november eighth there are three possibilities buck nell for one has asked for a game to be played in bethle hem carnegie tech is a second possibility however with rob inson gone the tartans will have a weakened team next not be fair to the rest captain springsteen wound up his col lege grid career with a wonderful performance and in the last quarter when his leg was seri ously injured and coach bald win decided to remove him he was so anxious to stay in the game that he had to be forcibly carried from the field lewin whose field goal gave lehigh her chance for victory and stor er whose punting was almost superhuman are but two of the wearers of the brown and white who distinguished themselves the heroes of lafayette mill man chicknoski and kirkleski were the outstanding stars of a maroon machine worthy to take its place with the elevens of the past continued on paye 4 column 1 year and are not so anxious to play lehigh the pittsburgh col legians have signed a two-year contract but the contract does not necessarily mean that their return game must be played here next year it will be played off later on if the game is not fixed for next year brown also offers to play lehigh on this date but will not travel to bethlehem the providence players offered a home game for the eleventh of october but this conflicts with tentative arrangements with princeton consequently there is no telling as yet who lehigh will face on the eighth alfred in all probability will again furnish a practice game on the fifteenth for the annual lafayette classic next year it is lafayette's turn to select the playing field if the maroon's stands are not repaired in time for the game there is talk of playing in philadelphia the le high authorities however as far as they are concerned would sooner see the game played in easton there has been no thanksgiving day game decid ed upon and in all likelihood there will be none students cheer injured stars swimmers have high hopes record crowd at grid classic outlook for successful season is very good — team lacks plunger more than 20,000 witness annual clash between lehigh and lafayette was.,an,4mpressiyi entire student body shows loy alty to hoffman and fernandez sfhetoljio com temporary stands filled the pep luncheon held at the commons on thursday did much to build up the lehigh spirit for the battle with lafay ette the spirit of the meeting was typified by the terse sen tence spoken by milton roth room-mate of bill hoffman roth promised for the team we'll come through for bill cheerleader litke led oft by calling for a double yell for the team and the answering roar fairly shook the vaulted roof of vhe commons fred dorton sang his new song a defiant dare to lafayette then one after another of the football leaders of lehigh arose mid told of the fighting spirit which animated the team wal ter okeson alumni secretary linked past with present telling of the spirit which lehigh teams have shown in former years and of his faith in the present team as one worthy of lehigh captain springsteen his voice choked with emotion ap pealed to the student body to visit st luke's hospital and cheer the lehigh athletes there v\ho have given so whole-heart tdly for the brown and white burke sanford roth and greer each spoke a few words cf determined enthusiasm tell ing of their affection for hoft inan and their resolve that his suffering should not be in vain sanford's i hope we have a fight was the sentimen of all his team-mates disdaining an easy game as unworthy of hoff man and hoping with all their hearts for something that would go down in history as a real le high battle in marked contrast to the ether speakers coach baldwin commander of the lehigh fight ers arose outwardly cool and collected and simply thanked the student body for its loyalty nd co-operation loyalty is something a man will give his life for and that's the feeling that this team has today thus did bosey reit cr past-master of psychology analyze the feelings of his be loved warriors holding his au dience spellbound he gave words of wisdom to team and student body alike and sent ihem away with the thought of bill over there suffering with ins whole heart over here in spite of last year's disas trous season the swimming team is looking forward most optimistically to a bright and successful season among the varsity men of last year who have returned are captain harmon who swims the 220-yard dash freeman the breast stroke and dash saxton the back stroke and the 100 yard dash parsons the 220 yard dash travis cheel and ethers astarita and childs can be depended on to show good form as divers and other pros pects are hoagland and piersol among the new men who should show up well are raleigh a baltimore city college man richards who swims the back stroke and estevez a dash man the events this year will be the same as last year with the exception of the back stroke which will be 150 yards and the breast stroke 200 yards the plunge has been retained thus making the events correspond to those of the national inter-col legiate swimming league continued on paye 3 column 2 road route to providence for thursday rival bands parade at big game at the annual lafayette smoker held in taylor gymna sium friday evening a united lehigh body — students and al umni—exhibited their confi dence in the team which was to meet lafayette on saturday a spirit of faith was worked into the tremendous enthusiasm of the stirring rally hundreds of students and alumni jammed in to the gymnasium filling all the bleachers and balcony squatting on the floor and standing packed on the stairs and landing the music of the evening was furnished by the university band and the lehijrh fcix orchestra the smoker opened with a big double yell for the team head cheer le/ader warriner called on the first speaker of the evening pat lleilly in the characteristic fashion which has made him a fixture at this annual occasion he expressed the hopeful spirit of the evening head coach baldwin responded to the insistent calls for a speech thanking the students and alumni for their support but refusing to make any com ment on the outcome ef the game except that the lehigh team was in every way fit for the contest . ■""-■*. ut . the entrance of the team was the signal for a wild greeting and cheers for each individual member novelty at hle t i c events held the attention of the crowd for a time a great ova tion was extended billy sheri dan wrestling coach as he step ped out to referee a match be tween members of the sopho lnore and freshman classes fred saxton new jersey in terschoolastic champion and second metropolitan champion gave an exhibition of fancy tumbling a rousing welcome was given the next speaker frank click lehigh coach for the season of 1921 as he finished a stirring talk the crowd following his spirit roared and cheered as the team left the building dag leish and dorton alias mr gal legher and mr shear — sang and then led the singing of songs prepared for the occasion written to popular tunes john ny dorton responded further with an exhibition of his skill at rattling the bones pat pazetti all-american quarterback and lehigh's great est football player now assis tant coach was the next speak er on behalf of the endow ment campaign billy dick trman 96 chairman of the joint endowment committee gave some information as to what has been done so far td wards raising the greater le bigh fund okey and bos cy gave the last word in bring ing to mind the characteristics of the lehigh spirit so exempli fied at this final 1923 smoker brown with a team which promises to give one of the hardest battles of the season is lehigh's final gridiron oppon ent the game is to be played at providence on thanksgiving day at 11:30 o'clock the team will leave bethlehem on tues day and stay at the biltmore in providence the bruins opened their sea son with the light grid-machine of haverford which they over whelmed 34-0 their next tilt was with colby when the maine boys held the heavier bears to a 13-0 score they made out less successfully against the heavy steam-roller tactics of washington and jefferson al though they put up a good scrap the presidents massive line could not be shaken and w and j held the long end of the final score 12-7 boston col lege was the bruins next vic tim and the bostonians were completely overwhelmed after the slaughter was over they were on the short leg of 30-3 the champions of the big three were of much sterner stuff and the rhode islanders were forced to bow in a 21-0 de feat before yale st bonaven ture was decisively defeated by ly contested game at dartmouth brown had the misfortune to lose by a two-point margin 16 14 one of the surprises of the year occurred when the bears soundly trounced harvard by a margin of 20-7 in this game brown showed her scoring pos sibilities but in defeating her next opponent new hampshire state 7-0 she showed a fatal lack of punch the comparative score dope on the new eng landers means but little as a resume of their season shows they are minus the services of sweet a fullback who starred against lehigh last year and spellman a consistant lineman last season they defeated the brown and white in a hard and cleanly fought battle the great feature of the game was that no penalties were incurred by either side the final score fa vored the new englanders 6 2 the team has been resting up after the hard game last week with lafayette and after the brief diversion at the lehigh lafayette ball have resumed training although the game last saturday was fiercely con tested no major injuries were sustained and the men who started against the maroon will be in first-class condition to start against the team from providence brown position lehigh talbot left end sanford reynolds left tackle merrill mcdermont left guard henderschott eckstein centre roth barrett right guard yeager roman right tackle springsteen stifler right end burke eisenberg quarterback lewin swamey left halfback jacobs dixon right halfback storer pohlman fullback greer statistics of the game on saturday endowment chairmen met last friday tradition was made last thursday afternoon when the lehigh student body marched to st luke's hospital and filed by the windows through which hoffman and fernandez watch ed from their beds of pain this visit made at captain spring steen's suggestion for the pur pose of cheering the two gallant brown and white athletes was one of the most impressive spectacles ever witnessed at le high coming frdm afternoon clas ses the men gathered at dela ware avenue and st luke's place within sight of the hos pital at half past four the col umn formed and led by the band marched up delaware avenue and bishopthorpe street halting a little way from the hospital the column gave cheers for hoffman fern andez and the team from there the procession advanced in sil ence and entered the grounds ynd stretched out into a single file when it neared the window of hoffman's room the men walked by beneath ihe window where the big guard was supported by nurses so that his dulled eyes could stare out at the passing file each man greeted him with a friendly wave of the hand and a cheery nod of encouragement and sym pathy the file of men rounded the corner of the building and came underneath the window where fernandez partially paralyzed in his lower limbs held himself up so that he could answer the greetings with his own familiar smile leaving the hospital grounds the men again fell in behind the band and marched back to tay lor field the cheering practice t'lat was held there was unlike tiny other cheering practice that this year has seen notice a dark and smudgy sky over cast south bethlehem on the day of the grid epic between le high and lafayette and the very atmosphere seemed to reflect the tense feeling and emotion of the thousands that crowded the town and campus a fitful wind ruffled the banners and occa sionally would develop into a blast that caused many a per son to retire more securely in to the warmer embrace of their overcoat the drear gray of taylor otadium began to show signs of life by one o'clock and within a quarter of an hour preceding the game the concrete bowl was lit erally padded with a colorful throng of enthusiastic devotees of football rousing yells and cheers roared with spontaniety 2nd spirit that was indicative of ihe intense enthusiasm created by this memorable occasion and reverbrated in thunderous peals from the sides of old south mountain blotches of bright color were noticeable in a lew places within the enclosure but a dull gray harmonizing with the bleak dark day made the bright patches all the more obstensible and striking the self-aid reported 3000 programs sold and 500 beat lafayette badges in the press continued on paye 3 column 2 the figures concerning the game showed that the attend ance this year was far above that of previous years every available seat or space was tak en and the grounds were pack ed to capacity there were about 20,000 people present in cluding the temporary stands and side-line spectators of this number 12,000 sat in the regular stadium 2100 in the temporary upper stands and 762 in the temporary lower stands the temporary section s held 2200 lafayette spec tators about 500 automobiles attended the game one-half of these parking on the campus the rest filled the streets in the vicinity of the stadium with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until tuesday december 4 1923 best ways to get there by automobile from bethlehem for the benefit of those at tending the lehigh-brown game by auto the following route is suggested as the most convient the roads on this route are all in excellent condition and no difficulty should be experienced by the autoists starting at bethlehem take the william perm highway number 9 to easton continue on the same road through long valley mendham morristown and newark here take plank road to new york upon reach ing columbia circle go on broadway to 110 th street cross 135 th street to mott aye ; take grand concourse to ford ham road to pelham parkway follow boston post road through new rochelle mama roneck port chester stamford norwalk bridgeport stratford milford and new london ; go on to gorton mystic and wester ly here turn left jtfnd follow route number 51 straight into providence the chairmen of all the le high districts throughout the entire country met in drown hall friday evening these alumni whose interest in their alma mater is shown by the time and energy spent together with the whole-hearted manner in which they are tacfkling the endowment campaign gather ed to discuss the progress of the campaign they were in confer ence until seven-thirty at that time led by okey the delega tion attended the smoker in a body and were enthusiastically received by the student body alumni notes rev f c lauderburn 91 has ac cepted a call to trinity church in pittsburgh pa ♦ * * john h wilson 23 has been elect ed president of the eastern steel pro ducts co philadelphia pa lafayette lehigh no yds no yds running attacks 65 309 25 92 completed forward passes 4 0 opponents forward passes intercepted 3 2 punts 4 103 6 171 opponent's kicks blocked 1 0 opponent's fumbles recovered 1 1 penaltities yards lost 3 25 5 29 incomplete forward passes 2 3 first downs 17 i touchdowns 2 0 points after touch down 1 0 goals from field . . 0 1 45 lehigh aggregation in brand new uniforms drew much applause before the game and between the halves the bands of lafay ette and lehigh paraded up and down the field amid the cheers of their enthusiastic supporters the brown and white band appearing in new uniforms drew much applause from all sides of the field when they formed a monster l and pa raded up and down the field in that formation the spectacle was an impressive one with six ty sons of lehigh marching briskly down the field to the tune of a snappy march the lafayette band while they had no stunt of this kind to present never the less made an excellent showing immediately upon their entrance to the field they marched in front of the le high stands and halted and with bared heads played everybody takes their hat off to lehigh they then counter marched and formed themselves in front of their own stands and played sev eral college songs while those in the stands sang what rivals say about us i am very well satisfied both teams deserve much credit and played hard and clean footbam i am very proud of my team — coach suth erland best bunch of boys i ever met capt deible lafayette after outplaying and outfight ing their traditional rivals for forty-six minutes the brown and white football eleven was defeated on saturday 13 to 3 in one of the greatest of lehigh lafayette gridiron classics in the first period honey lewin lehigh's star quarterback kick ed an absolutely perfect field oal from the 45 yard line and until the final quarter this was the only score of the game then with springsteen san ford jacobs lewin and hender schott removed because of in juries the brown and white was no longer able to withstand the crashing attacks of the maroon backs and chicknoski scored two touchdowns in rapid suc cession more than 20,000 people the largest crowd which ever jam med into every available inch of space in taylor stadium saw lafayette for the fifth consecu tive time secure the decision over lehigh it was the fifty seventh meeting between the two colleges which have for so many years been making foot ball history and based upon the records of this season the game was a battle for the champion ship of eastern pennsylvania in many ways the game was a dpulicate of that played a year ago when a battered lehigh team fought to a standstill a maroon eleven with one of the most impressive records of any team in the east this year as before the story of lehigh's majestic stand her veritable smashing of lafayette for three periods and then her downfall because of injuries to her stars is not a story of any individual it is a story of eleven individuals who worked and fought to gether as a unit more than that it is not a story that should do anything but reflect glory upon the brown and white for just as it was a year ago lehigh met a team which was on paper her superior with defeat staring them in the face the lafayette team staged a fourth quarter rally which the weakened le high eleven was unable to with stand gebhard's pass to chick roski had brought the ball to lehigh's 15 yard line and shortly after chicknoski went over later the same man inter cepted a pass on lehigh's 35 yard line and this paved the way for the second score the playing field was firmer than usual following a heavy storm as shortly before the game 600 gallons of gasoline were spread on the field and set on fire this made the surface dry and hard but made the field appear as though a miniature forest fire had swept from goal post to goal post the sun was unable to shine through the clouds and the day was cold with a brisk east wind at 1.30 activities commenced when the lehigh band of sixty pieces paraded on the field to the accompaniment of much ap plause from both stands a few minutes later the lafayette band appeared halted before the lehigh cheering section and played while the brown and white sang everybody takes his hat off to lehigh just before two o'clock the maroon squad came on the field followed some few min utes later by lehigh the kick off came at 2.15 to the accom paniament of bursts from a 37 mm gun and a machine gun manned by lehigh r o t c students every man on the le high team earned his share of the day's laurels and to pick out any individual as the star would vol xxxi no 19 maroon eleven victorious in annual gridiron classic brown and white doylestown and bethlehem pa tuesday november 27 1923 _________ * lehigh spirit will beat brown on % thursday the lehigh brown & white is published by the students of lehigh uni versity bethlehem pa it is set up printed and mailed at doylestown pa however the editors are at bethlehem pa and conduct the business of the publication there they should have all rr i addressed to them at their bethlehe addresses under the postal laws and regulations doylestown pa must be p ed on the date line to secure entry at o at place as second-class matter under thej ct of march 3 1879 a