Brown and White Vol. 12 no. 19

              south bethlehem pa tuesday november 29 1904 lehigh 6 lafayette 40 vol xii decisive defeat of the brown and white the brown and white calendar wednesday nov 30 at 2 p m minstrel show rehearsal at christ inas hall at 7.30 p m forum meeting at saucon hall thursday dec 1 at 7.30 p m e e society meeting in the physi cal laboratory boat named for an alumni the memphis commercial appeal says the arrival of the new government steamer h st l copee yesterday afternoon was an event among the rivermen that at tracted considerable attention the boat is new complete throughout and is to be used in the third mis sissippi river improvement district under capt e w van c lucas the hull of the boat is built entirely of steel except the deck which is heart of oak after coaling and taking aboard stores here the boat will proceed to greenville which i place will be her headquarters in the future the boat is the most complete of her kind on the mis sissippi and is considered as near perfection as it is possible for a boat to be — mr coppee was well known in ibis city where he was stationed a number of years as as sistant u s engineer mr copee was connected with the harbor im provements under ma j.willard and ether engineers skilled in their profession he left here for green ' ville where he died and the naming of the boat recently built after him is a tribute to his memory and the esteem in which he was held by the u s engineer corps — herald mr coppee was the son of rlenry coppee l l.d , the first president of lehigh university he graduated from lehigh with the class of 1872 after the successful completion of a course in civil en gineering distance when called on the work of pentz at quarter back is certainly deserving of great praise not only did he show good generalship in running the team but he also proved lehigh's best ground-gainer his tackling also was of high order several tim-s he was the only man between the goal and some runner who had broken through the line yet he never failed to biing clown his man thus averting several sure toucv downs bachman senior and persons were also good ground-gainers and played hard defensive games per sons made several good hurdles be fore he was hurt and replaced by adams whose 25-yard run on a kick-off in the second half was a feature of the game adams also played a hard defensive game and made a number of excellent tac kles the day was a beautiful one from the spectators standpoint though a trifle too warm at the beginning of the game to guarantee swift work and ihe rapidity of the first few plays speaks well for the condi tion of the olayers the stands were completely filled with specta tors there being nearly 9,000 pres ent lehigh's rooters who went down to easton in two special trains occupied the north end of the east stand while lafayette's cheering section was in the nord end of the same stand despite the fact that the band hired for the oc casion failed to make its appear ance lehigh's rooters though greatly outnumbered by lafayette's supporters easily outcheered their rivals the lack of new songs for the game was sadly apparent but the old ones were made to do yeo man service and by the aid of the new sir*n v lafayeite's cheering yas cleark eclips-d better support was never given a winning team and when at the close of thj game the entire body of lehigh men rose and keeping their places sang the alma marter they j roved the trutht of the old saying that lehigh men are with their team win or lose promptly at 2.15 p m captain waters began the game by kicking death of an alumnus w e arrison 98 died at his home in germantown of typhoid fever november 23 mr arrison was also a graduate of the univer sity of pennsylvania he was en gaged in the advertising business being a member of the firm of smith arrison & co at tenth and chestnut streets philadelphia the disastrous season of 1904 is at last ended lafayette's revenge is complete and another defeat has been added to our dismal list yet in spite of the apparent ease with which our team was overwhelmed the landslide did not come until after as plucky a fight as one could wish to see not until captain waters and others of the old guard were carried from the field bruised by the constant pounding of la fayette's heavy attack did the touchdowns begin to come with ra pidity and even then the resistance in no wise abated no one can say for an instant that lehigh quit the boys fought as gamely at the end of the contest as they did at the first but they lost their strength and snap while lafayette bouyed up by the sure prospects of victory and complete revenge seemed to grow stronger some idea of the fierce ness of the struggle may be gained from the fact that only five men out of the original line-up of each team were on the field at the call of time there is little to which lehigh can attribute her defeat other than that lafayette had the better team lafayette's heavier and faster line men seemed to open up holes at will through which the backs plowed until brought to the ground by the second line of defense on the c'her hand when lehigh had the ball during the first half lafayette was almost as powerless in stopping her attacks lehigh's offensive work after lafayette scored her first touch down was of a nature to remind one of the attacks of last year's team the effort of driving dewn the full length of the field for their hard earned touchdown seemed to sap the strength of the men and though at times they showed symptoms of regaining tlieirt 1i eir power they were only spasmodic the work of captain waters was of exceptional value and his forced retirement from the field was a severe weakening to the team al though handicapped by his foot which has kept him out of every game since the one with pennsylva nia and which was a source of par ticular attack by the lafayette men he played with some of his old time vigor and usually made his continued on third page successful meeting held the lehigh club of pittsburg held their first monthly meeting saturday evening november 19th at the hotel sheridan perm ave nue east end there were about forty members present when the meeting was called to order by president g w snyder the first business of the evening was the ap pointing of messrs porterfield brady and matheson as a commit tee of three to draw up suitable resolutions on the death of the late dr thomas m drown president of the lehigh university and the committee were further instructed to have a copy of these resolutions engrossed en the minutes of the pittsburg lehigh club also a copy to be forwarded to the family of dr drown and a copy published in the college paper the club was i then informed that mr c l tay lor had already sent flowers for dr drown in the name of the le high club and a vote of thanks was tendered to mr taylor for his ac tion it was passed moved an<i carried that the lehigh club of ! pittsburg would hold monthly meetings on the third saturday of each month this being all the business on hand the meet ing adjourned to discuss a very de licious supper that had been pre pared and the evening from then on was spent in the good old le high way lehigh cheers and le ihigh songs were the order of the day and from the amount of noise made and enthusiasm shown it was very easy to see that the alumni ir pittsburg are just as full of old lehigh spirit as ever the pittsburg lehigh club now has on its roll a membership of one 1 hundred and sixty and is one of the most flourishing and largest col lege clubs in pittsburg plans are being made for the winter so that t he club will not only meet for the purpose of its own pleasure but also for the purpose of increasing lehigh's influence in this vicinity and doing what they can toward in ducing young men wishing to take enginering courses to go to lehigh the following members were present on saturday evening messrs spinosa l t girdler hewett eckfeldt dunnells h l eray butz reddig miller mas sina reese dow barnard,r gris wold kniselv shimer w s smith curtis auchmoty hutch inson murphy t m girdler wil son allport thurston ritchey t s bray g w snyder porterfield w y brady wright famariss donaldson d r smith bliem bailey matheson j w t lehigh university pittsburg alumni no 19