Brown and White Vol. 33 no. 18

              lehigh-lafayette soccer teams meet in tie game sat tech has fine season rec ord — was beaten by le high two years ago fifty-ninth game between lehigh and lafayette draws many spectators inspiring speeches given — smoker followed by frosh pajama parade superior toe work shown by brown and white team brown and white eleven makes brilliant struggle in defeat — in spite of numerous errors game was one of finest ever seen on taylor field two scores each perfect weather much pep band to go hess and millman are outstanding offensive stars over 2000 lehigh boosters witnessed the greatest smoker in the history of the university last friday evening in the lower gymnasium rumbling cheers rose with anxiety for that team to fight their hardest against lafayette showing that the spirit of le high would be with them every inch of the game okey raised the fight anoth er notch with a speech that re called old times to the alumni who have not mingled with his never die character since they have left the college in years gone bye pat pazzetti who played a great part in making the lehigh team into the fighting squad that outplayed lafayette put the same fight into the smoker on friday night percy wendell made a final appeal to bring the pep of the smoker into the game on satur day to encourage the squad to fight with every muscle until the finish this request was grant ed when lehigh outplayed the maroon and white in every quarter con on page 4 col 5 bosey reiter reviewed the fate of the games and the con dition of the team thoughout the season for the benefit of the alumnae bosey pointed out in a sensible manner the evil of breaks in losing a game but with undenyable confidence in the lehigh team he showed that playing with the vim and the dash that is characteristc of all athletic contest between lehigh and lafayette the lehigh soc cer team failed for the first time in six years to defeat the maroon and white booters in a state intercollegiate contest the game ended in a 2-2 tie and was played on the upper field saturday morning although the game was a tie the superiority of the lehigh booters can not be denied play was constantly in front of la fayette's goal and in the second period the ball entered lehigh territory only three times only the stellar defensive work of mccaughley prevented the score from being much more in le high's favor time and again he kicked the ball oat of danger only to have it promutly return ed by the lehigh backs con on page 3 col 3 lafayette had only three at tempts at goal and out of these she made one this came early in the first period when purcell finding the ball loose kicked it at the goal it hit the lehigh goal tender's hands and bounced from there to the cross bar and then into the goal there can be no denying that this was ab solutely a fluke their other goal came in the third period a corner kick by lafayette struck mercur on the shoulder and bounced into his own net this ended their scoring for the game the lehigh scores came in the second and third periods saturday was one of the big gest days of the year people were gathering from all parts of the country and the city of bethlehem was filled to over flowing with the zealous and anxious alumni and students of two institutions of learning for the event of the clash of the ri vals on the gridiron is some thing that draws people from all over the country there is something in human nature that makes it admire and envy the strength and virility of an ex hibition on the gridiron per haps it dates back to the times when the survival of the fittest had a strictly physical signifi cance but whatever it is the power of attraction is great for the fifty-ninth time a brown and white team was to try the mettle of a maroon ma chine and the throngs that gath ered were of the spirited type that follows the sturdy warriors of the gridiron the occommo dations for the riotous crowds were prepared long in advance of their mad rush upon the site of encounter early in the af ternoon people were seen wend ing their way in streams to the stadium where the representa tives of the two institutions were soon to battle for their re spective alma maters con on page 3 col 5 the weather was perfect in every detail the sun was dim ly shining through the clouds which had gathered just enough although the most important game on lehigh's schedule was played saturday there still re mains a game the result of which means a lot to lehigh's final standing in the football world when lehigh lines up against carnegie tech at pitts burgh next saturday she will need every bit of the old fight and spirit which was displayed against lafayette last week ; for carnegie tech by holding w and j to a scoreless tie and by beating st louis 18-2 has ac quired considerable football prestige this year the game will be played at forbes field in pittsburgh and the contest will start at two o'clock there will be no tickets for the game here at lehigh but anybody who wants tickets will be able to get them at the game or if they prefer they can get in touch with mr petriken who will write to carnegie tech and get them to hold tickets out there lehigh went against lafay ette with the odds heavily against them but so strong was the fight and spirit in the team that it played the rival boys from easton to a standstill on ly to lose by the margin of two touchdowns both scored on flukes the same odds will be against the brown and white when she bucks up against the carnegie tech team saturday ever since lehigh's luck broke in the west virginia wesleyan con on page 4 col 1 frosh defeated in post season game difficult schedule mapped out for 1926 enthusiastic coll ege meeting held campus guarded maroon vandalism postponed game with muh lenberg played last wed nesday well organized guard posted to keep lafayette from marring campus cups for winners of inter fraternity contests were awarded four games to be played at home and four to be played away no more invasion played there one open date songs practiced one of the most enthusiastic and greatest pep meetings that lehigh has had for some time was held last thursday at elev en o'clock at the flag pole on the campus the main purpose of the meeting was to help in still into the student body the old lehigh spirit and enthu siasm for the coming game with lafayette the cheers and speeches and songs showed very clearly the feeling and spirit prevalent at lehigh this year con on page 4 col 7 day bell was in charge of the occasion he opened the meeting by stating that the first thing to be done was the award ing of cups to the champions of the inter-fraternity contests which were held last year c w patty of the inter-fraternity council presented the cups tro phies were presented to the in ter-fraternity champions in bas ketball pool and bowling the basketball championship was won by the delta upsilon fra once again the maroon eleven of lafayette conquered a valiant band of brown and white gridiron warriors of lehigh in the annual clas sic of the lehigh valley the final figures show fourteen points for the maroon to zero for lehigh but these figures do not portray the ac tual story of the game lafayette entered the contest an unques tionable favorite not only in the minds of neu tral parties but even in the opinion of staunch adherents of the brown and white but the fight and indomitable spirit of those lehigh play ers on saturday changed the opinion of even the most pessimistic and made them realize that they had forgotten the big factor in these an nual struggles — the lehigh spirit and fight la fayette won yes and by a margin that might indicate a fair amount of superiority that is to the person who was not fortunate enough to see the game but those who saw it realize that it was anybody's game and only as the results of breaks did the maroon come out on top with out trying to belittle the playing of the maroon it can truthfully be said that they owe their vic tory to some strokes of fate and not only to the two which contributed directly to the defeat of lehigh these annual struggles for gridiron super iority have always been examples of the finest there is in football at least from the standpoint of hard playing and the never-say-die spirit but no previous game ever surpassed the one of saturday in these respects that lehigh team fought against apparently overwhelming odds and except for the intervention of fate would have been rewarded for these efforts by at least a tie the fact that the lafayette team was admittedly their superior in practically every respect except spirit meant absolutely noth ing to this band of fighters it just inspifed them to rise to greater htights never was there seen harder tackling and harder charging and many of the penalties inflicted on both teams were the result of over-anxiety the game may have lacked that perfection in football which is sometimes attained in big games but who would not a theusand times rather see a game fought to the last ditch and every player giving more than he ever realized he could than a game in which the teams play like machines the statistics show lafayette slightly su perior in ground gaining but not the amount that the score would indicate and it wasn't because there was anything vital lacking in the lehigh playing but because openings for la fayette came at crucial times and could not have helped but have been converted into scores while several of the breaks favoring lehigh were rendered useless because of adverse cir cumstances a blocked kick and a fumble both within ten yards of the lehigh goal were the means by which lafayette scored thrice did lehigh halt the opponents drives when they were in a scoring position and without these breaks it is a question whether lafayette would have scored not more than once anyhow the brown and white was within the lafayette ten-yard line twice during the game but could not penetrate the maroon defense when its goal was in danger an attempted drop kick by honey lewin missed counting by a scant few inches lafayette's touchdowns pulsed the maroon from the 3-yard line previous the first maroon touchdown came in the middle of the first quarter after lehigh had re ly in the same period the ball had been placed in play on the 20-yard line after millman had punted over the lehigh goal and as hess drop impact of the ball on the chest but nevertheless he scooped it up and galloped across the goal 3ine before an intervening hand could be placed on him ford booted the ensuing point from a ped back to punt it breig the giant lafayette right tackle was upon him and received the full placement while a blocked kick is not luck by any means nevertheless it is a break especial ly when it occurs near a goal line the fact that this was the only blocked punt shows that la on several nights during last week the campus had the ap pearance of being under martial law and so it was such rule was instituted because on last tuesday night some glory-seek ing lafayette sympathizers had invaded lehigh's sacred pre cincts and splashed white paint here and there their choice of objects for the display of their very questionable artistic ability seemed to center upon paving stones and walls the follow ing morning lehigh discovered the strange and crude markings and preventitive measures were at once taken with the result that during the nights follow ing there was not only a con spicuous absence of further painting but no person ever se cured access to the campus un less he was positively identified as a lehigh man con on page 4 col 5 wednesday night saw christ mas hall the headquarters of an alert band of volunteers who took turns at patrolling the campus and watching the var ious entrances over at the gymnasium another group had its headquarters in the trophy room and guarded the field lest anyone on mischief bent effect an entrance at the entrances dance tonight at sayre hall nativity parish house starting at 8 1 5 admission 25 cents and piss card fayette was fortunte in having it happen near the lehigh goal the other leopard touchdown was scored in the third period after the maroon had con ducted a powerful offensive drive from midfield only to be repulsed on the ten-yard line they started anew however when moore received a punt near midfield and carried it back to the thirty-yard mark before he hit the turf here a forward to the same man and a line buck by kirkleski placed the oval just west of the fifteen yard mark and marsh tried his luck on the throwing end of a forward only to find every body covered so he started through the line somewhere near center and had gotten partly through when he was tackled so hard that he lost the ball as was the case with practically every fumble the ball rolled towards the lehigh goal and millman managed to grasp it just as it rolled over the last white line scoring another six points for the rivals ford again made a try for goal from a placement or dinarily a fumble such as this wrecks a chance to score but things happened contrary to the us ual way on saturday , lehigh's offensive immediately after lafayette had scored its initial touchdown lehigh began its first real offensive starting near its own ten-yard line and coming to an end on the 35-yard line from where lewin attempted a drop-kick lewin received the kickroff and dodged his way for 25 yards through a mass of maroon tacklers the brown and white made its first two downs when hess assisted by mellinger crashed the maroon defense to be stopped on the latter's 34-yard line lewin's boot from the 45-yard mark easily cleared the posts but was a few inches wide so lehigh's first attempt to enter the scoring col umn was in vain in the second quarter lehigh stopped a de termined advance by lafayette on the 15-yard line and gradually worked the ball into enemy territory just before the half ended o'callag han punted to moore who made one of his fum bles which was recovered by crane on the la fayette 10-yard mark lehigh was able to com plete but two plays when the half was ended by the timekeeper a score might easily have re sulted at this stage had there been a few min utes longer to play lehigh never seriously threatened in the third quarter although a lafayette advance was again stopped on the eight-yard line when mill man had less than a yard to make a first down but was stopped in his tracks at left guard the fourth period was played mostly in ma roon territory with lehigh gradually advanc ing toward the goal line at the start of the period a brilliant offensive in which hess car ried the ball six times for a gain of 30 yards brought the ball to the 35-yard mark and an exchange of punts and a recovered fumble by yeager found the brown and white holding the oval on the 25-yard line a long forward o'callaghan to hess placed the pigskin on the six-yard line the maroon defense tightened and try as they might lehigh could not pierce it for a score another time that lehigh came within scoring distance was when chuck hess broke through the entire maroon team except moore in the second period and could not be stopped until he had advanced to the eight-yard line the run was of no avail however because there were twelve lehigh men on the field crane had been sent in to substitute for yeager and was not able to retrace his steps in time to keep out of the playing space this meant that the ball had to be brought back to its former position the two shining lights of the game were without question chuck hess for lehigh and millman for the maroon the former was the big gun of the lehigh offensive in both of lehigh's drives towards the maroon goal this light-haired stalwart was responsible for the hess stars for lehigh con on page 2 col 3 in a game which had the semblance of a post-season fray the lehigh frosh ' lost to the muhlenberg first year men on the latter's own field by the score of 19 to 0 this was the final game for both institutions and the lehigh yearlings lost their last opportunity of having at least one redeeming feature to a rather disastrous season the muhlenberg frosh coach ed by george holstrum former cardinal and grey player have several former prep school stars in their line-up and these men working in perfect co-ordination outplayed the brown and white during most of the game prob ably the outstanding feature of the game was a fifty yard run by ulrich cardinal and grey halfback who intercepted a le high aerial heave in midfield and aided by splendid interference galloped fifty yards for muhlen berg's second score the first score came early in the first period when ulrich galloped through the line after a success ful forward pass the lehigh defense tightened here and pre vented any more scoring in that half in the scoling minutes of the game ulrich scored again on an end run after another sue con on page 4 col 5 the football schedule foe le high university for 1926 map ped out by graduate manager petriken was ratified at a meet ing of the board of athletic con trol at lehigh university one open date exists and that is september 25 however le high had no game for that date this year and it is doubtful if any early season contest will be included if not the schedule will com prise eight games concluding with the lehigh-lafayette game which comes on the saturday previous to thanksgiving day twice in three years lehigh has had a game after the la fayette encounter but apparent ly has decided to abondon the post-season game the schedule ratified follows sept 25 open oct 2 gettysburg at home oct 8 brown at providence oct 16 quantico marines at home oct 23 princeton at princeton oct 30 muhlenberg home nov 6 bucknell at lewisburg nov 13 rutgers home nov 20 lafayette at easton brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 24 1925 lehigh loses to maroon 14-0 in desperate struggle price five cents vol xxxiii no 18 multitudesjourney to view famous grid classic one remaining game on lehigh schedule with carnegie tech lafayette twice crosses lehigh goal for touchdowns as result of breaks hugecrowdattends one of biggest pep smokers in history beat carnegie tech take your a a book to tech