Brown and White Vol. 34 no. 34

              tate secured to coach freshmen large crowd entertained by interesting talks at first open meeting 1931 eleven former brown and white captain will direct coach harmon's mermen contribute toward gala sport day 45-23 score lehigh team scores early to swamp foemen by glee club notice there will be no rehearsal of the glee club on wednes day evening as scheduled members are sure to be at the odd fellows home on thursday evening at 8:45 o'clock publicity manager powerful cornell team victorious in four close bouts at 4:15 alumni attend lecture and luncheon ; basketball band featured has good record b'thorpe concert first of season visitors weak red undefeated billmeyer stars classes visited combined musical clubs entertain girls school in initial program jazz orchestra the combined musical clubs consisting of the mandolin symphony club directed by mr leonard luckenbach the glee club led by mr t edgar shields and the vanities or chestra directed by david flu harty gave their first concert of the season on friday eve ning at bishopthorpe manor before a highly enthusiastic audience the splendid manner in which the glee club sang re flected the excellent work done by mr shields with the club mr shields was unfortunately detained at the beginning of the evening but under the able leadership of president de gray ole king cole was sung with all its hi deddle dees continued on page three the mandolin symphony or chestra presented a compara tively new organization in col legiate circles which is far lehigh university calender the scabbard and blade so ciety very successfully enter tained the student body of le high at an open meeting held at the armory last thursday eve ning captain rodman the main speaker of the evening talked about his experiences and nar row escapes on the battle fields of france in the course of his speech he displayed many souvenirs and relics of the great war and recalled some of the old buddy stories that were told behind the lines colonel j gordon ridsdale student leader of lehigh's mil itary organization gave an il lustrated talk on the evolution of the machine gun the stac cato roar of the rapid firing gun completely surprised his audience his occasional sentry jokes proved an attractive fea ture in his speech captain j a chacey in his introductory speech explained the objects and the benefits of the scabbard and blade so ciety and its organization and methods of securing members fred trafford secretary of the student y m c a was called upon to make a speech his talk disclosed the fact that he was entirely in favor of hav ing a reserved officers train ing corps and he urged the underclassmen to do their share in supporting the scabbard and blade society continued on page four the university band made its first public appearance since the lafayette game with all the snap and pep that always announcement was made thursday of the appointment of austin tate for five years mentor of the bethlehem high school gridiron team as coach of freshman football at le high for the coming fall coach tate who was a member of the class of 1917 played left tackle on the varsity eleven four years captaining the team in his senior year it was dur ing this period that lehigh de feated lafayette in three out of four contests coach tate also played goaltender on two lehigh championship lacrosse teams while at bethlehem high tate consistently built up win ning combinations taking foar out of five games from allen town high and being the only team in this section to defeat norristown high and easton high in the last four years he also coached bethlehem's 1925 championship baseball team during the past few years coach tate has attended the illinois coaching school under the supervision of robert zup pke and gilmour dobie and the harvard coaching school he is well equipped to turn out one of the best frosh teams that lehigh has ever had and given reasonable material he will do it in this connection everyone is urged to do every thing possible to interest sub freshmen in lehigh and to turn in the names of all pros pects to coach tate lehigh students have been complain ing of the lack of football ma terial and this is their chance to better conditions dr mennes speaks before blake soc football theory course arranged the brown and white nata tors started off a gala sport day for lehigh by gaining a decisive victory over catholic university by the large score of 46-13 in a dual meet held at taylor pool on saturday the times of the events were rather slow owing to the choppy con ditions of the pool showing great superiority throughout the meet the le high swimmers captured all but one first place the major ity of events narrowed down to a keen competition for first honors between the lehigh en trants in the fancy diving jack hayes barely nosed out ted blood by a margin of nine tenths of a point a similar close event took place in the 200-yard breaststroke when tom coxe and charlie leader swam the entire distance neck and neck coxe clinching the decision by the merest fraction of a second the 100-yard dash was also marked by a close finish captain raleigh forging ahead at the finish with bob hertzler close at his heels from the spectators point of view the 440-yard free-style was the prettiest race to watch as fritchie of catholic uni versity swam with exceptional ly fine form appearing to cov er the gruelling distance with ease although he was hard pressed by charlie webbe le high's usual standby in this event summary : 200-yard relay won by le high hertzler ellis o'callag han price ; catholic univer sity second lehrfeld fritchie nicholson sullivan time 1:51 2-5 continued on page four fancy dives won by hayes lehigh blood lehigh second the lehigh varsity basket ball team defeated their lafay ette rivals with little difficulty in the game played last satur day night in taylor gym the brown and white quintet roll ed up a total of 45 points to the maroon's 23 by the defeat of their arch rivals the basket eers kept their home court rec ord intact and scored the fifth consecutive victory of lehigh teams over lafayette the game the first of a series of three to be played with the leopards was fast and exciting through out after the first few min utes of play lehigh was never seriously threatened and led all the way to the final whistle billmeyer and c schaub star red for the brown and white while adams was the outstand ing player for the visitors billmeyer started the scoring for the brown and white with a field goal after clever pass work brought the ball within range of the basket bush the lafayette captain started his team off with a brilliant shot from near center but from then on the brown and white court men drew away from the visi tors despite the desperate ef forts of the maroon to check them each side continued to cage the ball alternately for the rest of the period the half ended with lehigh on the heavy side of a 19-12 score in the second period lafay ette was completely outplayed scoring only two field baskets fast passing and accurate shooting enabled the lehigh five to run up a large advantage c schaub continued his brilliant game while his brother earl who had not scored during the first period tallied nine points five of the star center's being continued on page four the cornell matmen defeated the brown and white in the meet held at cornell last sat urday by a 16-11 score altho lehigh was leading after the 135-lb bout by eleven points the ithacans succeeded in ob taining a greater score by win ning the four remaining bouts this victory in addition to their conquest of columbia causes the red and white to loom as an important contend er for the intercollegiate cham pionship the consistent victories of mcgovern reed and heilman are causing comment in wrest ling circles these three seem to be the strongest contenders in their classes for intercolle giate honors the wily and ag gressive heilman can be count ed on to overcome all oppon ents captain reed although he has moved into a heavier class will undoubtedly dupli cate his performance of last year mcgovern's elusiveness and speed will in all probabil ity win a first place in the 115-lb class guerrero wrestling in place of keller who could not come down to weight put up a good battle and lost by a compara tively slight margin bill lit tell went into extra periods against a strong opponent and in spite of his lack of experi ence fought an interesting bout the summaries : 115-lb class mcgovern of lehigh defeated josefson of cornell on decision time ad vantage 8:13 125-lb class : reed of lehigh defeated allhenson of cornell on decision time advantage 9:43 continued on page four 135-lb class heilman of le high threw schroeder of cor history and development of psychology are outlined by him today washington's birth day was the first official home coming day for the alumni of lehigh the idea of having a winter reunion day is to give the old grads a chance to meet informally at the college with no definite program arranged for them but to see their al ma mater on a typical working day and to renew old memories and acquaintances the alum ni registered at the alumni of fice when they arrived this morning and from that time on they did as they pleased at a quarter after twelve most of the old grads assem bled in coppee hall where dr richards extended a welcome to all the alumni and gave an illustrated lecture on the fu ture james ward packard lab oratory everybody went to the cafeteria for luncheon fol lowing the lecture after which an open get-together meeting was held in drown hall pro fessors larkin carothers and palmer representing the en gineering business and arts schools respectively addressed the meeting for a short while outlining the plans of their va rious departments this was the only scheduled feature for the day and the old grads were free to roam around the school for the rest of the day a basketball game between lehigh and franklin and mar shall is scheduled for this after noon in order to give the alum in a chance to see the cagemen go into action after their vic torious game against lafay ette although no formal af fairs had been planned for the alumni during this home-com ing day it is expected that a winter meeting of the old grads in this manner will keep them in closer touch with lehigh and this custom is certain to become a regular feature on the university calendar course inaugurated to cov er more ground than in regular season frosh mermen lose to academy team lively discussion mercersburg tank • collegians perform well in french club holds banquet=meeting frosh wrestlers win from blair anyone eligible freshman quintet wins fourth game have one fall and three decisions — two bouts in extra periods professor toohy contrasts french and american customs cision over lafayette keeps slate clean by close de the lehigh freshman quintet accounted for its fourth straight victory of the season saturday evening by defeating the lafayette frosh 32-31 in an exciting game the contest was staged in the taylor gym preliminary to the varsity en gagement continued on page three the game was characterized by close guarding which kept the score down so that the lead was narrow at all times la fayette was ahead at half-time and during most of the encoun ter but a basket by many de cided the issue in favor of the home team the lehigh de fense was so good that the vis itors were forced to resort to long range shooting at which they were very successful the a class in the theory of practice of football has been arranged under the supervision of coaches wendell and tate and bosey reiter to precede spring practice the course is being organized so that more ground may be covered than it is possible to cover during the regular football season bosey reiter director of physical education will ex plain the football rules for the 1927 season coach wendell will instruct the candidates in offsense and defense tactics while austy tate freshman football coach will expound the fundamentals of individual play for the line backs and ends the course will be conduct ed on tuesdays and thursdays from 4 to 5 o'clock all men who expect to try for the team next fall will be required to take the course except men continued on page four on saturday the freshman wrestling team defeated blair academy at blairstown n j by a score of 14-10 lehigh won one fall and three deci sions while blair won two falls two of the matches went to extra periods the freshmen showed a de cided improvement over their form of the week before when they lost their first match of the season to brooklyn poly technic institute a badgeley of lehigh wrestled especially well scoring lehigh's only fall he defeated his cousin par cells ; neither knew that he was to oppose his relative there was no heavyweight bout a summary of the matches follows : continued on page four mid-wniter alumni day 4:15 p m varsity basketball vs franklin and marshall taylor gymnasium tuesday feb 22 wednesday feb 23 8:00 a m mr h l siegmund lehigh 25 will deliver three lectures on water tube boil ers illustrated with slides and working models in the physics lecture room at 8:00 10:00 and 11:00 a m students taking the course in heat engines are required to attend ; other students and members of the teaching staff will be welcome thursday feb 24 tendance required of juniors 4:00 p m college lecture south side high school au ditorium mr w w roper coach of the princeton foot ball team and a member of the philadelphia city coun cil will be the speaker at sophomores and freshmen 6:30 p m organization meet ing of local chapter of the american association of uni versity professors supper at the cafeteria drown hall at 6:30 p m meeting at 7:30 p m professors hugh es and smith will speak up on the reorganization of col lege curricula the talks will be followed by discussion saturday feb 26 yale taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m freshman wrestling vs liberty high school taylor gymnasium 3 00 p m varsity wrestling vs last friday night the mem bers of the robert w blake society with l e broad vice president in the chair held their regular meeting in pack er hall the speaker of the evening was dr meenes of the department of philosophy psy chology and education who spoke ori the history and de velopment of the present sta tus of psychology dr meenes was well quali fied to speak on the subject having studied psychology un der some of the foremost am erican and european psycholo gists previous to his coming to lehigh university continued on page four the subject of the doctor's address was exceedingly inter esting to the members of the society he began his address by saying that the study of psychology began with aristo tle at the time when men spec ulated upon the nature of the mind and soul while this led to the study of the mind it was the club de quinze chose the butztown inn as the scene of their banquet last thursday evening as is the custom at their meetings nothing but french was spoken during the evening professor toohy gave the address on the topic french customs the talk in which he brought out the likenesses and contrasts in the conventions of the french and americans was very instruc tive as well as most entertain ing following professor toohy's talk there was some lively dis cussion of various topics of cur rent interest and french trans lations of some of the popular songs were sung these songs proved to be one of the most popular features of the evening continued on page four the frosh mermen made a very creditable showing against the strong mercersburg team losing by the score of 39-23 in a dual meet held at mercers burg on saturday the score is hardly a criterion as the meet would probably have re sulted in a tie if it had not been for an unfortunate circum stance which arose during the very closely contended relay race in this event the prep anchor man fouled but lehigh did not protest the race continued on page four although preliminary dope seemed to indicate that the yearlings were in for a ducking they were quite a match for the noted mercersburg combin ation the meet being hotly con tested throughout the major ity of individual events were very close but the frosh were able to clinch only one first place this single victory was brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 22 1927 price five cents lehigh grapplers conquered by cornelians vol xxxiv no 34 brown and white natators swamp catholic univ varsity quintet wins easily from maroon cagemen old grads gather for first winter home-coming day scabbard & blade meet big success order your epitome now welcome back a lumni