Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 18

              fast backfield and strong line present formidable com bination line=up uncertain the speakers are men who are well known throughout college lafayette smoker in taylor gym tonight every department of the game is developed to the highest point confident not overconfident game will be hard fought complete scores of lafayette games varsity has developed rapidly since the georgetown game down=river team has a margin of four victories in the games played statement issued by prof h r reiter on eve of great struggle when the football season opened at lafayette this year coach berryman was confronted with the task of developing practically a new team although the team was green and inexperienced they won their opening game with the ambulance unit 20-0 the next saturday they de feated what was considered the strongest ursinus team in years by a 12-6 score their winning streak was broken in the game with rut gers a week later the 33-7 defeat from the jersey eleven seems to have had a demoralizing effect up on the lafayette team for it was the first of a series of overwhelm ing defeats being shut out by muhlenberg university of penn sylvania and swarthmore in the order named the muhlenberg de feat came as a surprise and showed the lack of team work and confi dence which characterizes the lafayette teams the perm game ness for the game was only a prac tice game for perm and lafayette was only able to keep the score down to 27 while perm was putting subs into the game swarthmore rolled up a score of 56 to lafa yette's 0 the lafayette team has good material and when they work to gether as a team and gain confi dence in themselves they will make a better showing the victory over albright last saturday testifies to this statement several men who were out of the game owing to minor injuries re ceived in the early part of the season will be in shape for the game tomorrow and since they have been working together for the season and are developing new plays we should not expect to romp off with an easy victory the probable lafayette line-up will be : robinson left end scott left tackle albright left guard em mal center beers right guard came right tackle russ right end baur quarterback smith left halfback mendelsohn right halfback rowe fullback average weight of line 171 pounds average weight of backfield 164 pounds average weight of lafayette team 168 pounds lafayette's record this year fol lows lafayette opponents 20 ambulance unit . . 0 12 ursinus 6 7 rutgers 33 0 muhlenberg 6 0 pennsylvania 27 0 swarthmore 56 42 albright 0 final arrangements for the most important smoker of the year have been completed and the game room in taylor gymnasium will no doubt be filled to capacity tonight at the beginning of the program the smoker coming on the eve of the biggest and most important game of the year will in all prob ability be the most successful and pepiest to be held this year the committee in charge of ar ranging for the entertainment of the crowd has obtained as speakers men who are well known through out the college the speakers will be bosie reiter tom keady w a okeson eugene grace 99 ; r c alden manager of football ; george p flick captain 1913 football team and george hoban captain 1914 football team be sides these speakers there will be two boxing bouts between boxers from south bethlehem and a wrest ling match between two men from the university a studetfr'dr ciies i"th win aucf pep to the occasion by furnish ing some lively selections during the evening cheers and songs will have the finishing touches placed upon them for the game with lafa yette the following day an abund ance of smokes will be furnished and a rousing time is assured to all who attend and it is hoped that the whole student body will turn out to a man to help beat lafayette don't forget the time 7.30 p.m sharp booster meeting following statement in regard to tomorrow's gridiron contest in which he reviews the development of the two teams up to the big game of the season and predicts that le high will win but not as easily as the comparative scores would indicate : the annual game between lafayette and lehigh to be played on taylor field saturday should not be judged by the comparative scores that the two teams have pro duced this fall in their games al ready played lafayette with a new team composed of men who are absolutely new to college foot ball has been slow at hitting its stride and entirely uncertain all year this has been due to several causes newness and greenness of the men their inexperience and lack of confidence in each other and lack of team work those who have seen the men seem to think that they have the physical ability but have lacked the confidence in them freshman dues payable notice a booster meeting was held in drown hall on wednesday after noon the purpose of which was to practice on the old yells and songs and to instruct the men on how to sing the new songs and give the new yells during the meeting the three best yells of all those handed in during the contest were decided by popular vote the winners of the contest were g l childs 21 first prize m b dittes 20 first prize and m p paret 20 second prize the meeting was attended by more than one hundred and fifty men senior chemist's trip tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock sharp the brown and white eleven trained to the minute will face the team representing lafa yette in an effort to repeat last year's glorious victory judging by the past season's record lehigh should have little trouble in winning by a fair mar gin lafayette has probably had the most disastrous season in her history the team has lost to swarthmore rutgers and pennsyl vania by large scores and was also defeated by muhlenberg 6-0 they have scored victories over albright the lafayete section of the u s a a c and ursinus lehigh on the other hand after having received set backs at the hands of pittsburgh and george town found themselves and have won all the games since played by large scores ~ itxt2ii.wird«ifg wtxa swamped 47-0 the week after they had defeated lafayette lebanon valley p m c and perm state were also defeated by comfortable margins this year's team according to coach keady is all things taken into consideration the best that lehigh has had since he has been in charge of the team the back field composed of w d maginn.es wysocki mccarthy savaria and herrington is undoubtedly the fastest that has represented the brown and white for many years each one is a clever open field runner and with the exception of the last mentioned all are hard hitting low-running line plungers three of them are also accurate forward passers defensively all are excellent tacklers and never fail to bring a runner down in his tracks the only weakness shown this year has been the defence against the forward pass the line offensively is a hard low charging line that has shown wonderful ability to open up large holes the interference on end runs and reverse play given by the line men is said by old lehigh men and by coach keady to be the best that has ever been given by a le high line defensively the line is up to the standard and few gains have been made through them this year an unusual factor this year is the fact that even at this late date the final make-up of the team is in doubt however with the excep tion of right guard and right half back the positions are virtually settled if captain halsted is in shape to play he will undoubtedly start the game at right guard his shoulder is still very weak how ever and it is very doubtful if he can do much scrimmaging in the event of his not playing or of get ting injured a m'aginnes _ will probably be found at the position as he has been alternating with capt halsted at that position all week continued on third page about 18 senior chemists and chemical engineers accompanied by prof d l chamberlin will leave sunday evening on one of the usual senior inspection trips on monday the party will visit the harrison bros chemical co at philadelphia pa whose specialty is the manufacture of heavy chemi cals and acids tuesday will be spent in visiting the welsbach co gloucester n j where incandes cent gas mantles are manufac tured on wednesday the party will spend the day in inspecting the leather plant at frankford pa and will return to bethlehem in the evening the trip promises to be of interest and especial at tention will be paid to the mechani cal and practical phases of the in dustries visited at a senior class meeting held yesterday the senior class book assesment was fixed at eleven dol lars and the dues at four dollars continued on third page lehigh on the other hand had a few men to build a team around but despite this fact the early season games were nothing to boast about and lehigh too was in the experimental state the first part of the season injuries and other con ditions caused a constant shifting of men early in the season so that the unsettled condition of the team resulted in a lack of team work on both offensive and defensive plays with the result of unsatisfactory work for the early games the le high team became a real team in the second half of the georgetown game and from that time on have developed rapidly as a team full of confidence in their own ability and full of fight when the time comes to make a real battle as a result lehigh has come along faster in its development than lafayette and selves and have failed to play as a team all year injuries and ex perimenting with various combina tions has caused an uncertainty in their game but this was a thing necessary for a new man to develop a team out of new material the scores of the lafayette-le high football shames from 1834 to i y 1 6 , tn clusi vet skow 1 20 t victor it's for lafayette 21 for lehigh and 4 tie games the scores follow : department of physical educa tion has given out the following statement in regard to tomorrow's lehigh-lafayette game in which he warns the student body against overconfidence in view of the dis astrous results two years ago when overconfidence ran high : lafayette and lehigh meet to morrow for the football supremacy for the fifty-first time through all these years the interest and rivalry have increased in a geo metrical ratio the rancor and bit terness which characterized the earlier contests have given way to sportsmanship among players and a more friendly spirit among the spectators if history repeats it self we may rest assured that there will be no walk-over but the-game will be hard fought from beginning to end ' ' looking at the season scores of the tw t o teams the advantage would seem to be with lehigh this fact has so fastened itself upon the gen eral public that a spirit of over confidence seems to pervade the general mind ■ this spirit is no doubt in the college body and to some extent in the lehigh team as a cure for this state of mind we should revert to two years ago when lehigh with a veteran team and a record far surpassing that of lafayette was overwhelmingly de feated this unexpected rout was brought about by overconfidence under estimation and external fac tors when a team is driven by desperation and has nothing to lose and all to gain opposing an over confident public which spirit spreads to the players there is likely to be danger ahead in a game of this nature often the psychological element is the pre dominant one a bad break at the beginning with an unfavorable wind sun or accident may act as a tide in the affairs of a football team which taken at its flood sweeps on to victory lafayette is not as weak as she appears to be she ia continued on third page i the treasurer w p johnson of the freshman class announces that class dues may now be paid to him or to the following men s lmdsley h p sficktiey e d roff p ritchie h c rockett t rights lehigh university vol xxv no 18 team primed for contest and with enviable record is favorite in annual game bethlehem pa friday november 23 1917 comparative scores no basis for judgment of teams annual lafayette struggle slow developing of material at lafayette pricp five cents have record of three victories and four defeats to present game the fifty=first game lehigh outweighed several players have recovered from minor injuries and will be in game statistics of players lehigh d o o p-h 60 3 % 6 prep school lafayette d o xji o 60 3 be 6 prep school saxman l.e 145 5-8 | 19 spagna l.t 185 6-0 | 20 macdonald l.g 174 5-10 22 a magdnnes r.g.j 185 6-0 j 20 johnson r.t.j 1-8.2 1 6-1 | 20 young r.e.j 167 5-10 21 herrington q 8.1 140 5-10 20 w maginnes l.h.b 168 5-10 21 halsted f.b 1621 5-9 ] 24 mccarthy r.hjb.j 158 5-10 21 savaria l.h.b.j 143 5-6 | 19 wysocki f.b.j 173 6-0 1 20 lind l.h.b.j 156 5-9 | 24 nolan q.b.j 140 5-7 j 19 early c.l 150 5-8 23 booth l.g.i 180 5-11 20 rhoad r.g 155 5-7 19 i i st luke's school williston prep boston latin boston english westf'd mass high aurora high kiski school exeter erasmuss hall sp'gf.d mass high woonsocket high asbury park high williston prep phillipsburg high wenonah mil acad carbondale high c h s phila robinson l.e 170 5-10 20 bordentown m i scott l.t 190 6-1 ] 20 cheltenham high albright l.g.i 170 5-9 | 21 mufflinburgh high emmal c.j 160 5-7 | 20 c h s phila beers r.g 170 6-0 | 20 weatherly high came r.t 170 5-10 21 andover russ r.e 170 5-llj 19 kent school baur q.b 145 5-6 j 20 wiilkes-barre high wolfe l.h.b 155 5-7 20 steelton high mendelsohn . r.h.b 190 5-7 19 central h s rowe f.b 165 5-11 20 andover loux f.b.j 175 5-9 20 haddon hgts high king r.h.b 165 5-9 | 20 peddie crossley l.h.b.j 155 5-ll 19 downington sigel q.'b 145 5-8 | 20 mercersburg waters l.h.b 170 6-1 | 22 commerce high wainright c 155 5-101 20 peddie i i ii year jai fayeti te 1 leh high 1884 50 0 1884 30 4 1885 0 0 1886 12 0 1886 12 0 1886 0 1887 4 10 1887 6 0 1 qqq 1000 4 6 1888 0 16 1889 10 16 1889 6 6 1890 0 30 1890 6 66 1891 4 22 1891 2 1891 2 16 1892 4 0 1892 6 15 1893 6 22 1893 0 10 1894 28 1894 8 1895 21 1895 1.4 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