Brown and White Vol. 4 no. 3

              the glee and banjo clubs will start rehearsing this week and all men who either sing or play are urged to try for one of the clubs all places are vacant thus far two trips have been arranged one to new york the other to wash ington the prospects are very bright for a successful season mr pettinos will again lead the banjo club and mr wolle will direct the grlee club and those wishing to try for the clubs will see either of the above men f c wettlaufer mgr an important college meeting will be held in the physical lab oratory on tuesday oct 6 at 12.30 p m mr morris and cap tain gunsolus will address the meeting on questions concerning athletics the underclassmen are especially requested to be present the election for senior class officers will be held in christmas hall on wednesday oct 7 from 12.30 to 2 p m only those mem bers of the class who are not in arrears for more than two months r dues will be allowed to vote the nominees are as follows : president curtis senior noerr and barton ; vice president scott noerr merri man and bowers ; secretary dun nells thomas and lee ; treasurer pennington treichler and loomis ; historian treichler athletic rep resentative boyt and van duyne a business meeting of the agora will be held on wednesday even ing at o'clock in christmas hall president notice the election for representative at-large to the athletic committee will take place immediately after the college meeting on tuesday messrs brady senior and yates are the nominees all who have paid this term's athletic subscrip tion are allowed to vote football the football outlook this fall appears much more promising than it did when college opened the weight of the line has been greatly increased by mccarthy 1900 who is a candidate for centre with scott 1900 who has left college until christmas the line would have been complete the backs while not heavy are all good tacklers runners and line hitters so far captain gunsolus is very well pleased with the work of the team the turn-out of the scrub is very discouraging indeed on two occasions last week there were not enough men out to give the varsity practice to make a good team it is necessary to have a large scrub and make the practice hard and snappy in a college of four hundred men there must be more than twenty-two men who play football and it is the earnest wish of captain gunsolus that a large number of men turn out in the future of last year's team there are five players in college captain gunsolus played tackle on last year's team and also on the famous team of 93 before com ing to lehigh he played on the state university of iowa team he is a hard player both on the offensive and defensive and is a hard tackier he weighs 170 pounds senior 97 who is a candidate for left tackle played that position last year on the team he cap tained thewashington high school team and also his freshman and sophomore teams he is a very aggressive player and weighs 175 pounds van duyne 97 is playing the position at right half as he did last year his great feature is bucking the line although weighing only 150 pounds holderness 99 last year's quar terback is being tried at fullback this year before coming to le high he played the rugby game he is a very plucky player good punter and hard tackier he tips the scales at 160 pounds gass 98 has played on the team ; two years last year he developed into a star end but at present can not play on account of pressure of college work he is a sure tackier and carried his 160 pounds down the field very quickly becerra 98 is a candidate for guard he weighs 187 pounds and is very strong he has played a good game at tackle on the scrub for the past two years johnson 97 is another candidate for guard but while a strong player is a little light weighing only 170 pounds he has played on the scrub for the past three years the end positions are being filled by treichler 97 and brady 97 both were substitute ends last year and are playing in good form brady is also a good line hitter and continued on fourth page the university of chicago offers 1,086 courses changes in the foot ball rules owing to unfortunate circum stances two sets of rules were adopted in 1895 which governed the games between the different colleges this naturally caused dissatisfaction and even ill feeling among the colleges it therefore became necessary to form a new code of rules to govern all games in the future united action was therefore brought about by the university athletic club in majch of this year with the result that a meeting of the representatives of the various colleges was called to devise a uniform code and one which would be satisfactory to all concerned the committee was composed of the following men all well known football enthusiasts j h sears of harvard john c bell of university of pennsylvania alexmoffat of princeton professor l m dennis of cornell paul j dashiell of lehigh and walter camp of yale at the first meet ing of this committee mr camp was unanimously elected chairman and secretary the rules which were adopted by a unanimous vote were submitted to the university athletic club which through its executive committee approved t'n'e action of the rules committee , the most concise and forcible summing up of the changes brought about by the new rules is contained in spalding's official football guide for 1896 which says : " the principal changes outside of mere alterations in the wording were made in the rules governing fair catch and scrimmage the former has after a season of trial been brought back to its old ruling of heeling a catch but the penalty of two years ago viz fifteen yards which was attached at the time when the law was made providing for holding up the hand has been retained the situation then is the same as three years ago save that the catcher is protected by a very severe penalty against interference or being thrown it is highly im probable that there will be any in fringement of this rule in the face of a loss of fifteen yards " in a scrimmage the feeling against too great concentration of plays has shown itself and momen tum plays are practically eliminated and mass plays held in check in two ways liuling that no player shall take more than ' a single step before the ball is put in play save one man who may be in motion toward his own goal will bar out all forms of momentum play much to the satisfaction of most players and spectators the rule forbid ding five men to bunch inside of tackles will help to hold back mass plays although by no means elimi nating them it is to be hoped that the good judgment of captains and coaches can be relied upon to see that there is fully as much to continued on third page lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday octobee 5 1896 vol iv the brown and white founder's day mr john ii converse of the baldwin locomotive works will deliver the founder's day address mr converse is a very prominent citizen of philadelphia in all that relates to reform in municipal gov ernment and in all matters of citi zenship and has also given great attention to matters of education he is peculiarly fitted to speak up on the theme of " citizenship and technical education by reason of his connection with philadelphia's great industry and of the attention he has given to these subjects the musical program will be ex cellent the anthems will be taken from handel's messiah and crea tion calendar tuesday oct 6 — college meeting in physical laboratory 12.30 o'clock p m election for representative at-large to athletic committee 12.30 p m wednesday oct 7 — senior class elections 12.30 p m to 2 p m c e section meeting 7 p m b e society meeting 7 p m agora meeting 7.00 p m thursday oct 8 — founder's day exercises in chapel 11 a m cane spree 2 p m founder's day hop in gym nasium 9 p m saturday oct 10 — football le high vs princeton at prince ton sunday oct 11 l it c a meeting in christmas hall 6.15 p m notices the founder's day hop will be held in the gymnasium on thurs day evening oct 8 it is open to all college men and any one desir ing invitations can procure them from members of the committee — h a seabrook c f scott h f brown j f middledith t m dodson gentlemen's subscrip tion 3.50 athletic committee meeting the athletic committee met at the northampton club saturday evening at 8.30 o'clock with pre sident j w thurston in the chair messrs wilcox smith linderman johnson howe thurston and saltzman were present mr saltz man was appointed secretary pro tern owing to the absence of undergraduate representatives the election of officers was post poned until next meeting after a discussion of the condition of the gymnasium and athletic field a committee was appointed to as certain cost of putting in shower baths on first floor of gymnasium for use of teams next meeting will be held monday evening oct 12 at 8 o'clock all undergraduate members must be present junior class meeting on friday last a meeting of the junior class was held for the purpose of electing class officers for the ensuing year the president called the meeting to order and as the nominations had previously been made a ballot was immediately taken of the three nominees for secre tary two withdrew and bucher was unanimously elected as a result of the first ballot no one was elected far well and horn making a close race for president on the second ballot stockett was elected historian and farwell and horn were tied for the presidency the meeting was adjourned and a ballot was taken today from 11.30 to 12.45 in packer hall xo 3