Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 17

              members of original grid combination to be award martin and wynn are the only men not in shape to start against maroon bosey okey and pat will instill confidence at great lehigh gathering lafayette now has the ad vantage with 36 maroon victories recorded 1917 best year monster parade alumni smoker spirit revived forty-two years ago this fall lehigh launched her first var sity football team and as was natural the initial game in 1884 was with lafayette the lehigh home club is going to pay homage to that team and has selected the night of no vember 19 the eve of the la fayette game for the occasion the members of that team will be guests of honor at a smoker for the alumni a pep meeting chuck full of enter taining features in which the townspeople are invited to take con on page 5 col 5 the lehigh football squad confronts its oldest rival to morrow lith but two men miss ing from the roll martin and wynn both wingmen will not be able to don the uniforms for the great lafayette classic both men were hurt in mid season martin suffering from a broken bone in his leg and wynn from a broken ankle however the rest of the boys are in great shape bill lit tell is fully recovered from his injuries sustained in the buck nell game con on page 6 col 6 tonight lehigh students and grads will gather once more to bring to its highest pitch that far famed lehigh spirit in an ticipation of a glorious victory over lafayette tradition is behind this great classic of the gridiron which makes it almost sacred in the minds and hearts of all lehigh's sons at the smoker tonight in the lower gym the pep and vigor which lehigh is capable of putting forth will go far towards lead ing the big brown team to coveted victory the meeting will be the big con on page 6 col 6 tomorrow for the sixtieth time lehigh will meet lafay ette in the annual gridiron clas sic the two colleges have been opponents on the gridiron over a greater period of time than any other two colleges in the country since 1884 with only one break in 1896 the two teams have met at least once in each of the forty-two years from 1884 until 1901 two games were played each year and in 1891 three were played con on page 6 col 4 in the fifty-nine meetings of the two teams lafayette has coach wendell the rival coaches coach mccracken the rival captains captain kirkleski captain littell maroon tutor successful in bringing lafayette grid ders to fore brovm and white mentor for merly all-american back at harvard lehigh's leader on the grid iron possesses fighting qualities tomorrow the oldest and most bitterly fought football feud of the country will be renewed when the brown and white meets the maroon in the sixtieth annual contest between the rivals this classic is the goal of the entire season and a victory tomorrow would wipe out all the previous defeats and help to atone for the de feats of the past seven years for seven long years lehigh men have been hoping for a vic tory and brown and white players have given every ounce of stamina and fight that they pos essed — only to bow in defeat before the super ior onslaught of the more powerful maroon jer sied players if scores of the previous games of the sea son were any indication it would seem that to morrow will see the culmination of another dis appointing football season but comparative scores mean nothing when lehigh and lafay ette meet on the gridiron the battle is al ways so fiercely waged that neither side can be assured of a victory until the final whistle blows lafayette's record this year is the boast of college hill eight consecutive victories in as many starts places lafayette among the five undefeated teams of the east and a total of 293 points scored as opposed to their opponents 37 points makes the maroon the ranking high scor ing team of the east this is the team that the brown and white warriors with a record of one victory and seven defeats will meet to morrow and give such a battle that the final de cision will be in doubt until the last whistle confidence looms large in easton as is evi denced by the attitude of bill cothran star tackle and leading kicker of the east who was dismissed from the squad this week because of violation of training rules although maroon rooters may have confidence in the superior football ability of their gridmen they realize that football skill is by no means the only con sideration in a lehigh-lafayette contest — it's a question of fight fight fight from the first whistle to the last in spite of the comparative scores coach mccracken also realizes that the game will be no walkover and he has been stren ously drilling his men in preparation for the battle with the exception that behrens will replace cothran at tackle the line-up will prob ably be the same as for last saturday's game against susquehanna con on page 6 col 1 ) the brown and white gridmen emerged triumphant from the rutgers game without casualities and in better condition than at any other time this season coach wendell has been holding practices behind closed gates and lafayette's best athlete is leader of this year's grid team probable line-up bring back old times with the bonfire g h herb mccracken coach of the lafayette univer sity gridders stands forth as one of the leading coaches in the east as a perusal of the records which his teams have compiled will easily reveal this popular young mentor who is serving his third year at the head of football at lafay ette is a former pittsburgh jridder he was a wonderful halfback for pop warner when that astute gentleman was foot ball coach at the smoky city college and received all-amer ican mention by the late wal ter camp ever since he left his alma mater to coach at other insti tutions it has been his pet hob by to beat their elevens with consistency such was the case when he coached at al legheny and he has continued this nefarious practice in the two years that he has tutored the lafayette gridders the scores being 20 to 9 in 1925 and 10 to 0 in 1924 con on page 6 col 1 ) last season's eleven was the best that he ever turned out his team losing only one game and that by one point to w and j his lafayette teams percy wendell harvard 13 is a name that is a byword wherever matters pertaining to the pigskin sport are discussed his is a remarkable case in that he is probably the only coach of a major college eleven who was a marvel in his undergraduate days of course other good football players are coaching at major universities but none with a record as good as the lehigh mentor this is the second year that coach wendell is leading the work of lehigh on the grid iron last fall he assembled an eleven that loomed as one with great possibilities but the un timely death of charley prior in the battle with west virginia wesleyan demoralized the sea son at lehigh con on page 6 col 1 ) wendell assumed the position of head coach at boston uni versity after the war and in 1921 took up the reins at wil liams where he turned in an coach wendell was an all american back at harvard and played on three of the greatest elevens that the late percy haughton ever put together at the crimson institution he was captain in his last year the man who will captain the maroon gridmen in their annual fray against lehigh is a most formidable opponent hff has become known throughout the east as one of the best plungers and runners in col lege football his speed and broken field running have in spired much anxiety in the hearts of his opponents kirk leski who has been called the best schoolboy football player ever produced is the man with this reputation he will lead lafayette into the contest de termined to come out victor ious kirk entered lafayette in 1923 with an enviable high school record he had spent four years at nutley high and was a member of its eleven each year when he was a junior in the school he captained the team and played a stellar game as quarterback in addition to this he was chosen all-state quarterback his senior year was another succession of tri umphs con on page 6 col 5 not content with football honors kirk ventured into other fields of sport and re turned laden with victories bill littell as captain of the 1926 football team has proved himself an able leader and a capable player although the team's record shows seven defeats and but one victory no fault can rightfully be attribut ed to his playing which is al ways of the highest calibre at lehigh bill has gar nered other laurels beside that of the football captaincy he was president of his freshman and junior classes and a mem bill comes from central high school washington and from staunton military acad emy where he made a name for himself in football he has likewise seen quite a bit of the world with the merchant mar ine this marks his fourth year of varsity football at le high he made the team in his freshman year but was unable to play in the lafayette game because of a broken arm bill is to be admired for the fact that he went out for the team last year immediately af ter recovering from a sereve at tack of typhoid fever last year's lafayette game saw him in his old position of tackle playing his usual hard game con on page 6 col 2 xxxiv no 17 price five cents bethlehem pa friday november 19 1926 banquet tonight honors first b & w football team lehigh and lafayette meet in sixtieth annual grid battle tomorrow lehigh-lafayette is nation's oldest football series lehigh brown and white lafayette smoker to climax events leading to game coach wendell has gridders in fine shape for game ed gold footballs smash lafayette stop the maroon break that jinx