Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 19

              freshmen defeat sophomores result unexpected lafayette outplayed the brown and white with all the breaks to their ad vantage the downfall of the brown and white warriors came as a complete surprise to the crowd of 15,000 per sons who gathered on taylor field to witness the annual contest be tween lehigh and lafayette a comparison of the season's record for each team led both lehigh and lafayette rooters to give the ad vantage to the brown and white eleven and the complete upset of their calculations was evidence of lehigh s reversed form with the advantage of winning the toss captain luhr chose to de fend the west goal with a strong wind to his back immediately lafayette gained ground on their punts weldon averaging 50 yards while cahall could not cope with the wind and seldom was able to get more than 15 to 25 yards decidedly it was lafayette's lucky day the first two scores re sulted directly from lehigh s two costly fumbles twice under the shadow of their own goal weldon s punts were blocked and in each case a lafayette player was on hand to fall on the ball it was almost uncanny the way the players on the maroon and white eleven followed the ball lafayette made 11 first dowois to lehigh s 9 in 28 attempts the maroon and white made good 10 forward passes lehigh succeeded with only three out of 11 tries in penalties lehigh suffered a total loss of 45 yards as compared with lafayette's loss of five yards ex cluding punts and kick-offs run back lafayette gained a total or 270 yards and lehigh 183 yards the lehigh line was almost in vincible and very few gains were made through it by lafayette of the hitter's total of 270 yards 157 yards were gained by means of the forward pass in the last period in particular weldon for lafayette was responsible for some beautiful passes the majority of his heaves were good for 20 yards or over and several of them for more than 30 yards gifts by alumni and trustees make this possible games shows need of more seats president drinker announced at dinner at the commons on satur day that thanks to a movement or iginated that morning by messrs c m schwab e g grace chas l taylor and w a wilbur the early completion of the stadium at its east or baseball end was as sured the cost of this additional work is estimated at about 27,500 of this amount seventy-five per cent was subscribed on saturday morning as follows : messrs schwab and grace each twenty-five per cent of the total messrs tay lor and wilbur ten per cent each and dr drinker five per cent on dr drinker's announcement of this at the commons two of our alumni who were present stated to him that they wished to be counted in mr franklin baker jr 95 alumni trustee and ex-president of the alumni association sub scribing 500 and mr louis gas ton 88 subscribing 250 surely generous aid announcement of this movement was made by the head cheer leader at the football game and a number of the alumni there announced their intention of aiding so there seems to be no doubt that the un sightly and unfinished aspect of the east end of the stadium will soon by the co-operation of lehigh s ever loyal and ready trustees and alumni be a thing of the past and the baseball end will balance the football end in its completeness and finish a most desirable consumma tion saturday's experience of the crowd attending the lafayette-le high game showed conclusively that the far-sighted action of the au thorities and friends of lehigh in planning the new stadium was wise and timely and the completion of the work should call for the aid of all lehigh men game at washington pa on thursday players of both teams in good shape on thursday lehigh meets in washington and jefferson one of the strongest football teams in the east this is only the third time that the two teams have met on the gridiron and the game is conse quently attracting widespread at tention coach folwell of w and j is not optimistic regarding the outcome of the gridiron battle during the first week blackboard sessions followed by stiff practices have been the daily regime the brown and white players came out of saturday's struggle without injury excepting keady who sustained a sprained knee and who in all probability will be out of thursday's game nearly 500 lehigh alumni in the pittsburgh district w 7 ill attend the game having made reservations for an entire block of seats scores : w & j . . 6 geneva 0 w & j 6 w virginia 6 w & j 17 lafayette 0 w & j . 34 westminster .... 0 w & j . 16 yale 7 w & j . 41 muskingam 7 w & j . . 0 pittsburgh 19 w & j . . 7 w va wesleyan 3 w & j 59 bethany 0 the probable line-up : w j positions lehigh rese i c green witherspoon ... 1 t tate boettner 1 g ostrum wesbecher c scruggs wimberly r g grumbach henry r t richards heyman r c sawtelle moser q b cahall stobbs 1 h b halsted ruble r h b heuer mccreight . . . f . b maginnes held house parties forward passing was the big factor in victory weldon hurled pigskin for repeated gains magin nes lehigh's star lehigh went down to defeat at the hands of lafayette on taylor field on saturday by a score of 35 to 6 it was the forty-ninths battle between these tw x o neighboring rivals and never before was the re sult so unexpected this was an other case of reversal of form and the present season has witnessed several similar disasters lehigh entered the game a strong favorite and the brown and white eleven was admittedly the stronger team in all departments of the game the score indicates that lehigh was completely overwhelmed and such was the case throughout the entire game the lafayette team outplayed the brown and white and the breaks were all to the ad vantage of the visitors starting off in the first period within a few minutes after the game had started lafayette took the lead when mum mert scooped up a fumble on le high's 20 : yard line and raced for a touchdown lowe for lafayette a few minutes later recovered an other fumble on lehigh's 30-yard line and lake kicked a goal from the field making the score 10 to 0 in favor of the down river college this early lead seemed to dis hearten the lehigh players and they played as though dazed lafayette scored again in this period when weldon for lafayette got cahall's punt against the wind on lehigh s 35-yard line and by a clever bit of running brought the ball 23 yards nearer the goal with but 13 yards to go the maroon and white aided by a forward pass brought the ball to the goal line and weldon pushed it over the second and third period re sulted in no scores for either team the lehigh team took a decided brace in the second quarter and twice had an opportunity to score in the early part of the period ca hall attempted a drop-kick from the 48-yard line but he was hur ried and the kick fell short im mediately following cahall ob continued on second page section a taylor hall held a • house party for the lafayette game | a very interesting program was ar j ranged the chaperones were mrs w l wilson and mrs c k meschter the following were the visitors : miss harriet wilkinson miss \ \ madeline mcdaniel miss mar : guerite schubert miss genevieve j : sheckells miss rose sheckells miss , adele valentine miss blanche cox miss goldie m laubach miss helen r spangler miss mary k j rau miss hazel hutchinson miss gertrude ritz miss lona stone and i miss margaret flora instead of the usual dance on saturday evening the party went on a straw ride to nazareth ana had a chicken and waffle dinner at the nazareth inn the sigma phi epsilon fra ternity held a house party and i dance over the lafayette game < the following were present : mrs f g philo edgewood n j chaperon mrs mckinnon york pa chaperon mrs g w bu chanan bethlehem pa chaperon miss frances doherty camden n j ; miss ruth adams camden n j ; miss marian evans cata sauqua miss hilda ahlem allen town miss martha kneisler south j bethlehem miss edna wilmot j hazleton pa ; miss alma shive j \ york pa ; miss jessie oswald ar lington n j ; miss louise masters haddonfield n j ; miss sara tay lor haddonfield n j ; misses marian and ruth lauf er allen town miss martha hall south j bethlehem ; miss anna cranmer south bethlehem two scrappy wrestling bouts were pulled off at the lafayette smoker last friday one of which being only an exhibition bout the first bout was between jenness 17 and tachovsky 18 which was won by jenness with a head scissors and arm lock hold time : 4.28 3/5 the second bout was an exhibition bout between stanley martin 16 inter-collegiate champion in 1915 anr billy sheridan wrestling coach of the university after the wrestling bouts a fast hotly contested basketball game was played between the freshmen and sophomore teams which was finally won by the freshmen by a score of 9-7 the line-up is as follows : 1919 positions 1918 thomas forward smith dennis melville ( c ) . forward . fensterm r avinterhalter golding reid center ketchum burgess guard flinn c kirby oberrender . guard jennings hurley staats goals ketchum flinn smith thomas 2 burgess oberrender fouls ketchum thomas pr6f j l stewart tells v.m.c.a that ordinary senior is inter ested in playing politics and social position read books shocks will be more easily ab sorbed by reading good lit erature must take proper attitude professor john l stewart of the department of history and economics addressed the y m c a on sunday evening in drown hall the subject of his talk was ' ' shock ' ' prof stewart said that the sub ject of his speech should be com pensation instead of shock never theless we are shocked in more ways than one there is an apparent inability of the average student to readjust himself in college he comes from a home where everything is ar ranged for him he has been taught to respect certain opinions he is expected to believe everything as an established fact however a great break comes when he leaves home the first shock in college is when one finds that he doesn't count as much as he thought he would one finds different personalities in col lege and comes in contact with dif ferent groups of individuals having certain standards of action point of view rewards and punishments when a man comes to college he is under a new system of discipline many remain rebels others go through college courses as simple cogs in the wheel and many others are happy mediums here a man is subjected to shocks which have much to do with the formation of a man's character next to the church the university is the great est institution for moulding men some people think that a man in college must accept the opinions of his teachers without argument or discussion others believe the opposite they believe that college life begins the everlasting struggle that one must face the battle and form his character from this ex perience the ordinary senior in college is uninteresting he is interested in playing politics and acquiring cer tain social positions in college some people have illusions that such men are making good and are doing something worth while the ideals of engineering lead the student away from the idealistic principles of life engineering is no different than any other profes sion there is the same lack of i broad views in the schools of the ology law medicine etc the american character lacks reading good books in good books one gets the inspiration to take up the shocks the readjustment needs ! all of the resources possible dur ing the period of readjustment a man may become mean if he does not look at things in the right way and meets educated men who are mean in the old days men said ameri ca meant so much in this country the first chance was given to make everything possible one thing to learn is to seek the opportunity to meet w t ell-educated men and women when a man leaves the univer sity he is faced with being poorly prepared and is astonished at crooked politics and the fact that continued on fifth page the game in summary the brown and white college senior is uninteresting lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday november 23 1915 vol xxiii lafayette victorious in annual gridiron contest w and j game on thanksgiving day prospects good for early completion of stadium maroon and white's open field play too much for lehigh varsity in reversal of form unable to check advance score 35=6 no 19 lafayette lehigh ist half 2d half ist half 2d half kick offs 119 102 68 128 run back 10 47 21 15 first downs by rushing 3 4 5 number of punts 7 7 4 5 average distance of punts 42 29 f 31 44 average distance run back 5 3 6 7 forward passes attempted 5 23 4 9 ground gained by forward passes 7 157 8 42 forward passes incompleted 4 14 3 5 forward passes intercepted 0 10 2 penalties 0 1 4 2 ground lost by penalties 0 5 35 10 ground gained in scrimmage 49 57 88 45 ground lost in scrimmage 7 40 17 24 ball lost on downs 0 0 10 fumbles 0 1 2 0 field goals attempted 2 0 1 0 fifty-yard punt out of bounds good for 25 yards ; average in cludes 50 yards ftwo kicks blocked included in average be at the station tonight 7.20 and help give the team a big send=off