Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 16

              in condition many expected lehigh vs lafayette 1926 lehigh meets maroon for the sixty-first annual battle tomorrow football series one of longest in the country spirit revived eight wins brown and white team will be in peak of its form lafayette has advantage with 34 maroon vic tories recorded gridders are in fine shape for game tomorrow last eight years by their arch rivals and because coach mc cracken's charges are favored over percy wendell's men does not mean that a victory for le high is impossible in 1927 the fates may decree otherwise for modern football has reached the paradoxical stage where up after the game — when the climax has been reached — when feeling is running rampant — thoughts will turn to the event which follows — the aivnual brown and maroon ball this year it will be a much finer af fair than ever has gone before one of the best and snappiest orchestras of the east has been procured so that syncopating rhythm of an unqualified de gree can absolutely be guaran teed and not that but this year the subscription has been placed at such a low figure that attendance is within the means of all because of this it is ex pected that not only a great percent of the student body will be present but the majority of the returning alumni will grace the occasion as is usual this ball will have the convival spir it and celebration that is pe culiar to that week-end of continued on page eight lafayette comes to bethle hem tomorrow after having gone through a season in which it has seen both the heights and the depths starting the season very auspiciously with practically all of last year's team back in college the mar oon ran up very large scores on its early season opponents ov erwhelming schuylkill muhlen berg and rutgers without any difficulty and consequently all indications seemed to point to a repetition of last year's very successful season in which they did not lose a game the first indication that everything was not to be plain sailing came in the middle of october in the west virginia game in this game the mountaineers held la fayette so well that the best the latter could gain was a tie then followed three very dis tressing saturdays in succes continued on page seven within twenty-four hours from now the result of the six ty-first lehigh-lafayette strug gle will be history the subject of future bull-sessions copious write-ups have been given to tl\e other classics which take place annually yet not in the history of the gridiron sport is there so much rivalry attache as in the meeting of the two lehigh valley institutions when lehigh succumbed to lafayette 43 years ago by the score of 50-0 it marked the in itial battle between the rivals sixty times have the represen tative elevens dashed out for the opening whistle since 1884 with the exception of 1896 both teams have fought it out at least once every year until 1901 two games were played each season . continued on page six during the long period of ri valry the honors have been when the whistle blows to morrow to start the sixty-first annual fray between lehigh and lafayette a brown team which will have arrived at the peak of its form will be on the gridiron the mental attitude which has been an important factor in the past defeats will be dispelled and a fighting elev en will be representing lehigh during the past week intense efforts have been made to round the team into its best form in addition to the regular staff of coaches art cusick austy tate pat pazzetti and goldman have been working hard to develop a team to beat lafayette much time has been spent in perfect ing a defense and an offense for forward passes on tuesday and wednesday afternoons two lines were put through an of fensive and defensive scrim mage which did much to continued on page six huge bonfire and smoker tonight captain atkinson the rival coaches captain burke the rival captains coach wendell coach mccracken brown and white mentor for merly ail-american back at harvard one of the most successful tu tors ever to coach lafayette one of the most outstanding players on lehigh team for three years leader of this year's team prominent in many activities spring practice pre-season training at a camp on long is land ten weeks of practice ses sions interspersed with eight disappointing games pep meet ings and smokers are now all but memories ere the sun sets behind the gothic tower of the alumni memorial building to morrow the football season will be completed — for lehigh and on the performance of the wearers of the brown and white in tomorrow's battle with lafayette will the success of the season be measured past records mean nothing when lehigh and lafayette whose rivalry extending back to 1884 is one of the most fa mous in the history of ameri can collegiate sport meet on the gridiron it is the pres ent not the past that counts because the leopards have an edge in the long series of sixty games because the maroon has not been defeated once in the sets are not upsets but rather a regular weekly occurrence it may be that the best team will not win for a fighting alert eleven which can capitalize the breaks is a force to conjure with and it is the proud her itage of lehigh gridiron teams always to give their all in the annual battle with lafayette the college hill clan is fav ored by newspaper critics and non-partisan fans to extend its dominance over the bethlehem collegians to nine consecutive years on the basis of the com parative records of the two teams for the current season lafayette starting the season with seven of eleven regulars and an imposing array of high class substitutes who might be easily classed as veterans from the undefeated 1926 team loom ed as a potential champion of the east but for internal dis sention among the players the continued on page eight lehigh line-up to lafayette g h herb mccracken stands out as being the most successful football coach in the history of the ma roon team while not so for tunate in the matter of win ning games this season in the past four years mccracken has built one of the most formid able teams in the east if not in the country graduated from the univer sity of pittsburgh coach mc cracken took with him the rec ord of being one of the best and most versatile football play ers ever developed by the re nowned pop warner while in college he was mentioned in the late walter camp's mythi cal ail-american line-up as a halfback and although that was his regular position he had continued on page six when percy wendell came here in 1925 to take over the job of coaching the lehigh foot ball team he did something that few men in his position would have done having already achieved fame at williams by building a championship foot ball team without outstanding material he came here to face the same proposition again with everything to lose and nothing to gain continued on page six wendell was graduated from harvard in 1911 after being an ail-american halfback for two years and with the reputation which he still has of being the greatest plunging back that ev er matriculated at harvard in 1920 he went to williams and began to work on an almost de funct williams eleven that tonight is the rally night of rally nights tonight is the night when lehigh enthusiasm should surge to its highest when 1500 students pledge themselves to spiritually block tke advance of lafayette when happy alumni reunions renew memories of victorious lehigh and pray for an again victorious lehigh wednesday afternoon's pep meeting was poorly attended about two hundred men appear ed at the flagpole and listened to the urgings of okey and gil more the speakers arid the men around the flagpole were serious but the lehigh pep was lacking but it is tonight that lehigh continued on page seven yesterday's demonstration af ter college lecture showed a re turn to normal spirit almost the entire student body attend ed and even though the atten dance was made most conven ient the enthusiasm that was worked up was genuine lafayette line-up atkinson re burnett rt thompson rg kressler c warren lg shelly lt houser le wolbert qb shellenberger . . . lhb wilson rhb guest fb burke re miller rt b levitz rg lehr c waldman lg kirkpatrick lt wilson le bennett qb c.lehr lhb raleigh rhb j levitz fb when the 1927 lehigh foot ball season is brought to a close on saturday november the nineteenth with the annual le high - lafayette classic the brown and white rooters will witness for the last time the play of several of her most outstanding players who will be lost to lehigh football for ever by graduation among these prominent men will be tommy burke captain of the 1927 varsity and regular end on the team for three years tom came to lehigh from west pittston high school penna where he was captain of his high school team in his senior year playing the position of halfback at that time his brother ted burke had creat ed a notworthy reputation at continued on page seven last tuesday afternoon at a meeting of the varsity l club of lafayette university scotty atkinson was elected varsity football captain for the remainder of the 1927 season this election was held in order to fill the vacancy which occur red when cothran the former captain was ruled out of the game a few weeks ago atkinson who for the past two years has been holding down one of the end positions in a very creditable manner came to lafayette from am herst where he was a member of the psi upsilon fraternity during his year's stay at am herst he not only played foot ball in which sport he was an outstanding asset to the fresh man team but he also took part continued on page seven price five cents bethlehem pa friday november 18 1927 vol xxxv no 16 brown and maroon ball is to be held after game brown and white maroon gridders lose three games during season suffer defeats by w & j perm state and georgetown elaborate plans have been made for dance at hotel bethlehem beat lafayette down the maroon break that jinx