Brown and White Vol. 20 no. 6

              the squad of thirty men which reported for practice on wednesday afternoon were put through some strenuous work in the shape of sig nal practice running down punts field-goal kicking from placement forward passing and scrimmage for about two hours and a half at 3.30 the two teams were put to work at signal practice and for fifteen minutes they moved up and down the field at the end of which time they lined up against each oth er the varsity receiving the kick off owing to the absence of sev eral members of the varsity who were not feeling in shape to prac tice in any scrim rage the two teams were rather more evenly matched than usual and the varsi ty often found it no easy proposi tion to gain enough ground in four downs to retain the ball 1 he first team however kept the ball their share of the time and moved slowly down the field most ly on straight foot-ball until an at tempt at a forward pass failed and the scrubs were given the ball on the second play a fumble by the scrubs was seized by the varsity and the ball once more began mov ing in the direction of the varsity's goal a successful forward pass netted the varsity about fifteen yards but a penalty for holding robbed them of the ground thus gained as a consequence the var sity punted and the scrubs after an unsuccessful attempt at ground gaining punted to the varsity thus ending the first half-hour's work here a ten-minute breathing spell was given the entire squad after which scrimmage was resumed it being interspersed with placement field-goal kicking forward-passing etc considerable time was devoted in running the end-men down un der punts and the results although fair showed that the men have room for improvement the for ward pass was also practiced for a time the men aiming to make the continued on third page senior class meeting statistics on foot ball men data of interest concerning many of lehigh's candidates foot-bail practice is drawing out large numbers of excellent men following is a list of thirty-nine of those out for the team the ma terial is very promising and as will be seen all the men have had won derful training before entering le high : v j pazzetti 14 is 22 years old 5 ft 10 v in tall and weighs 160 lbs he played at wellesly i i igh before entering lehigh last yeai he played quarter back and this year is captain c r wylie 13 is 22 years old 5 ft sja in tall and weighs 170 lbs as captain of last year's team he played centre ie received his training at hill school ( r p flick 14 is 23 years old 5 ft 9 in tall and weighs 148 das he played at bordentown and is doing excellent work this 33 r ear at half-back |. !. vela 13 is 22 years id . 1 in tall and weighs 178 lbs he entered from bethlehem prep and plays left-end h a crichton 15 is 19 years old 6 ft 1 in tall and w r eighs 174 lbs lie came from bethle he n prep and plays full-back as last year • w f bailey 14 is 24 years old 6 ft 1 in tall and weighs 182 lbs he u preped at newark academy and at ml hermon school his position is right-tackle j g hauser 15 is 21 years old 5 ft 10 in tall and weighs 192 lbs he entered last year from staunton military academy he works well at guard f bianco 14 is 22 year old 6 ft tall and weighs 175 lbs he plays guard and entered two years ago from b p s r j macmfflen 16 is 22 years old 6 ft y 2 in tall and weighs 180 lbs he comes from burling ton high school and plays left j tackle j e keady 16 is 20 years old 5 ft 10 in tall and weighs 190 lbs he played last year at law rence academy and this year plays continued on supplement all candidates for the burrßoard will please report in drown hall on wednesday october 16th at 1.30 p m the following positions are open — sophomore class three editorial and one managing ; fresh man one editorial and one manag ing from all classes one art ed itor politics club meeting glee and mandolin club the glee and mandolin club held a long rehearsal in drown hall on wednesday afternoon sev eral new candidates showed up for the rehearsal and prospects for an attractive season have brightened materially the program for the season has not yet been completed but the management expects to do so shortly there will be a brief meeting of the politics club at 7.30 o'clock next tuesday night in drown hall to-morrow's games ; the important contests in the in tercollegiate gridiron schedule for to-morrow follow : amherst vs springfield t s at amherst army vs rutgers at west point trinity vs bowdoin at hartford • bucknell vs univ of pittsburgh at pittsburgh dickinson vs st john's at car lisle franklin and marshall vs al bright at lancaster harvard vs williams at cam bridge haver ford vs stevens at haver ford johns hopkins vs md agri c at baltimore lebanon valley vs delaware at newark lehigh vs navy at annapolis new york vs cornell at ithaca norwich u vs holy cross at worcester princeton vs v p 1 at prince ton swarthmore vs u of penna at philadelphia syracuse vs carlisle at syra cuse tufts vs n hamp state at medford union vs worcester poly at schenectady univ of vermont vs dartmouth at hanover ursinus vs gettysburg at col legeville w & j vs perm state at state college w & l vs georgetown at washington wesleyan vs brown at provi dence western md vs wash c at chesterton yale vs lafayette at new haven the senior class at a recent meeting declared itself in favor of a combined class book and epit ome a motion was passed to in struct the class book committee which will be elected in two weeks to confer with the 1914 epitome board concerning the combining of the books the class book com mittee which is to be composed of the editor-in-chief and bus mgr of the 1913 epitome and seven oth er members of the senior class will be elected from the following nominees : — d k evans gorman lamb horcasitas rowland stokes muthart lenker wallace ward schmidt dugan gerhard siegel herr cosgrove smith and dewey the brown and white notice lehigh university bethlehem pa friday october 11 1912 meeting of track candidates vol xx fourth conser vation congress no 6 wednesday practice frank and plain talk about the black plague the fourth national conserva tion congress this year was con vened at indianapolis last week dr drinker attended as he did last year at kansas city as a del egate from pennsylvania appointed by the governor as a representa tive of lehigh university and as a delegate this year also from the american forestry association of which he is a vice-president the theme of the congress was vital resources papers were read on conservation questions such as the conservation of human life a national consideration bird slaughter the lumber man's view-point prevention of railroad accidents prevention continued on fourth faoe ) about twenty-five men reported at a meeting for track candidates held in drown hall on wednesday afternoon captain bailey gave a brief talk outlining the work that will be carried out during the fall and winter it is planned that the men may have four or five months training before the season actually begins in order that the team may be in the best possible shape be sides the members of last year's team some promising material from the freshman class attended the meeting minstrel show forty-eight men responded to the first call for candidates for the minstrel show and reported in drown hall on wednesday after noon there was no work done lut the management outlined to the candidates the program of work that will be followed during the fall the following candidates are out for end-men — mcewen mc connor darmer richardson su tio mccolly mitman baldwin packard r w chandler and l chandler following are the candidates for the chorus : — mndge diven lam bert greer wynne hill spooner laedlein smith jones d todd quinn rust gilroy thorp quirk cooper butler abbott wood san try degler kelchner shields gun nel green lewis mclntyre wal lace cooper town-send baird sheppard francis morris and wragg y m c a the meeting of the y m c a cm sunday evening at 6.30 o'clock ss 33 be featured by an interesting talk bj professor f p mckibben on william duncan of matlak ahtla professor mckibben se lected this topic mainly for the pur pose of presenting a novel and at the same time an entertaining sub ject to his hearers matlakahtla is a town in alaska and the story of william duncan centers about this place in addi tion to the address special music will be given by a quartet