Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 13

              discusses theory concerning the origin of meteor crater located in arizona lack of proper training in pre paratory and high schools is main cause the drown hall house commit tee has completed the revision of the house regulations which are to be in force during the present scholastic year these regulations will be framed and posted in drown hall as has been the prac tice in the past it will be to the best interests of the student body if these rules are obeyed as lack of appreciation of the advantages of drown hall will lead to the im position of restrictions necessary to its proper maintenance the com mitte in charge of the drawing up of these rules consists of l sar geant chairman a j ely v hoffman w t staats and e f wait the house regulations for drown hall during the coming year are as follows : 1 the hall will be open on week-days from 7 a.m until 11 p.m it will be open from 8.30 a.m until 11 p.m on sunday 2 college organizations not hav ing assigned rooms mush apply to the chairman of the house com mittee for the use of the hall 3 smoking is permitted in the building except in the study room when ladies are present for danc ing or other functions no smoking will be allowed on the second floor ■£. the study room is for study ing only all noise and disturb ance of any kind is prohibited 5 magazines must not be re moved from their covers or in any way mutilated or disfigured after use they shall be replaced on the tables in the reading room 6 chairs must not be taken from the rooms to which they prop erly belong nor removed from the building without the permission of the chairman of the house com mittee 7 drown memorial hall is in the care of the student body it is expected that it will be used and cared for by the students as a home 8 freshman caps shall not be worn in drown hall the lehigh freshman football team defeated the reading high school team by a score of 13 to 0 saturday afternoon at reading at the close of the first half neither team had scored how ever in the third quarter lehigh kicked to reading and soon re ceived the ball on downs by a series of line plunges and off-tackle plays the ball was placed near enough to the goal to permit hess to plunge through center for a touchdown hess missed the goal in the fourth quarter brady on an off-tackle play carried the ball for six yards making the second touchdown and kicked goal no further scoring was made by either team and the game closed with the score 13 to 0 in favor of the le high freshmen as a whole the game was well played and was featured by the work of abrams and esterly of reading for the freshmen line plunging by hess and brady's 35 yard run featured stickney and weiss played well on the line the lineup is as follows r h positions l f esterly l.e harris julian l.t davis hosteter l.g weiss wilson c bertolet steitler r.g arthur reynolds r.t stickney fries r.e long h muhlenberg q.b drew abrams l.h.b brady fehr r.h.b mold johnson f.b hess touchdowns : hess brady goal from touchdown brady substitutions lehigh freshmen — - kay for arthur loeser for mold hart for harris reading — c muhlenberg for julian sailer for hosteter leimbach for h muhlen berg brand for leimbach um pire reed muhlenberg referee ham ursinus head linesman leimbach f and m time of quarters 12 minutes y.m.c.a discussion group plans nearly complete lafayette soccer game notice the lehigh soccer team plays its old rival lafayette at 2.30 on wednesday november 7 lafa yette won the first game of the series 3-0 but lehigh expects to have revenge and will put a vet eran team on the field rev kenneth g hamilton who spoke at the special college meeting in the chapel last wednesday will talk at the moravian church in bethlehem this evening at 7.45 all are cordially invited to hear him mr j m frey secretary of the y m c a is working on the plans for the discussion groups which are to begin wednesday november 14 with meetings in practically all the living groups in the university mr frey has obtained a creditable list of men to act as leaders of the discussion groups and expects to complete this list within a few days when it will be made public many of the men who acted as leaders last year have again been secured while the list also includes some men who ar^e new to this work continued on fifth page the members of the mining and geological society were given a rare treat at their first meeting of the year last friday evening in williams hall when dr benjamin l miller professor of geology ad dressed them on the subject the geological puzzle in addition to his main address dr miller also gave an interesting demonstration of the action of the rare metal pol onium on other minerals causing them to glow in the dark a short business meeting of the society w t as held before dr miller's address at which j m carbonell 19 and m e johnson 18 were nominated for the position of secretary left j vacant when j a holmes 18 left i college to enter the officers train ing camp in his address on the geologi cal puzzle dr miller presented a subject which has puzzled ameri can geologists for many years in coconino county in northern cen tral arizona there is an enormous depression in the surface of the earth about 4,000 feet in diameter and 570 feet in depth which is known as meteor crater there have been many theories advanced as to the cause of this so-called crater and many geologists have visited it in an effort to solve the puzzle of its origin dr miller was there during the past summer and was therefore able to give the so ciety first hand information in re gard to it there have been in all eighteen different theories propounded as to the origin of this crater but all but two of them have been conclusively proved as unsound after many years of careful observation and argument it has been shown be yond a doubt that the crater is not of volcanic origin so that the only two theories left are the meteor theory which claims that an enor mous meteor struck the earth at this point and buried itself in the earth and the steam explosion theory which maintains that it is due to an explosion of great quan tities of steam from the interior of the earth dr miller considered both these theories in detail and gave not only his own ideas on the subject but also the ideas of other eminent geologists who have made a careful study of the matter dr miller first took up the me teorite theory and presented the fresh from victory over lafa yette and with great display of confidence 1 at the start of the game muhlenberg's football team was easily humbled by the brown and white eleven on taylor field last saturday afternoon by a 47-0 score the allentown collegians were clearly and decisively out classed by the brown and white team from the very first whistle and at no time was the ball in muhlenberg's possession in danger ous territory in fact until the beginning of the fourth quarter when lehigh s team was composed principally of substitutes muhlen berg had the ball in their possession only three times and succeeded in making only two first downs the lehigh team showed con tinued improvement in offense in comparison with that shown in the lebanon valley game and in the few plays that muhlenberg had the ball the lehigh line presented a stone-wall defense gains in sat urday's game were made from every quarter though end runs contributed the greater part time after time aided by good inter ference wysocki and herrington tore around the ends for 15 to 20 yards while savaria and maginnes ripped up muhlenberg's line at will the team showed its first suc cess with the forward pass sax man at left end negotiating several while one resulted in a touchdown when wysocki threw the ball 25 yards to herrington who dodged through the remaining muhlenberg team 15 yards for a touchdown the most of the scoring was done in the first half the score at the end of that period being 41-0 at the beginning of the second period the lehigh backfield was composed in two cases of substitutes and later half the team had been re placed yet the team kept the ball and succeeded in adding one touch down to the score the first touchdown was scored a few minutes after play started on a series of line plunges the ball being carried over by wysocki of subsequent touchdowns all but two were the result of long end runs by herrington and wysocki one touchdown came as the result of a forward pass and another in the second quarter when young picked up a punt by herirngton fumbled by anderson muhlenberg's quar terback and ran 15 yards for a touchdown the seventh touch down was made by savaria on a four-yard plunge through the line in the second quarter the general improvement in both offensive and defensive of the brown and white team is to be commented upon it seems that the team has at last found itself picking individual stars of last saturday's game is a hard propo sition wysocki in his first game at fullback showed that he is at home there repeatedly he made long gains around the ends and through the line scoring three touchdowns herrington played continued on fifth page prof h r reiter head of the department of physical education has issued a statement concerning the physical status of the fresh man class based on statistics ob tained in the examination of the freshmen prof reiter deplores the fact that a large number of the members of the class are not physically fit and blames this on lack of proper physical training and development in the prepara tory schools he claims that more men do not go out for athletics be cause they lack the physical de velopment necessary to stand up with their fellows prof reiter s statement follows by intensive efforts the physi cal and medical examination of all men entering this year were com pleted on october 21 practically one month after the opening of college the early completion of the work was made possible by the kindly co-operation of dr w l estes jr assisted by mr rex to gether with the department staff working every night throughout the month valuable information wasi ob tained from the replies of 220 his tory forms which were sent to parents of the men expecting to enter through the college office pre liminary to the opening of college by this means a number of men with hernia defective hearts and general weakened condition were able to be seen as soon as they en tered college the general condition of the class of 1921 like all preceding classes shows that there is some thing radically wrong in the early physical education and home train ing of our american boys so serious is the situation that it should arouse thought and investi gation especially among those men and women who have to do with the child in primary and grade schools it is a deplorable fact that a large percentage of the youths en tering our american colleges today are physically unfit and far below the physical development that should be the heritage of every boy attaining the age of 18-21 this condition of affairs is due to the ignorance prejudice and short sightedness of our educators and school boards in the primary and secondary grades poor ventila tion bad sitting posture due to abominable desks intensive hours of study and the lack of a system of physical education are some of the dire courses which produce the conditions which confront vs 1 to day we hear a great deal about the thread-worn phrases college ath letics minister only to the strong the weak are neglected why is this so simply because intercol legiate athletics are a survival of the fittest ' it is not the fact that the opportunity isn't offered to all in view of the critical situation of this country today and the large number of rejections in the army and navy on account of physical inability it is high time continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday november 6 1917 dr b l miller addresses miners freishmen win fast game from reading high muhlenberg is weak opponent vol xxv freshman class strength figures house regulations for drown hall drawn up drown hall house committee revises the last year's regulations teams evenly matched until the second half when two touchdowns were scored the geological puzzle chosen as the subject of his talk to the society allentown collegians are easily defeated by varsity last saturday large number of class are physically unfit prof reiter deplores fact that blames physical training team shows improvement gives demonstration ball never in dangerous territory even when second string men were substituted no 13 i only on e * wee x ***** jj to turn in your entry for the j 8 brown and white yell contest » h remember 4 j — how badly we need yells j g that there are two prizes of 10 and 5 §# #§■ — that the contest closes at noon on nov 15 §# j that the student body is the final judge f fj — to seal and address to the yell editor jf