Brown and White Vol. 68 no. 17

              it's a toss-up says leckonby of crucial game lehigh university brown and white un 6-0331 friday november 16 1956 confusion delays probe in 1205 dance theft vol 68 — no 17 solons ponder damage to grid a standing-room crowd of nearly 20,000 is expected to pack fisher field tomorrow for the ninety-second meeting between lehigh and lafayette in a series that dates back to 1884 lehigh is again favored however the leopards don't pay too much heed to the experts as has been borne out the last three times the two teams met lehigh entered these games with the backings of most experts and left the games smarting from three de cisive whippings the squads will take the field with identical record s — six victories against two defeats the packers lost to delaware and virginia while both gettysburg and rutgers out scored steve hokuf's men a victory for the brown and white could lift them into the top ten teams in the east the lambert poll which comes out with rankings of the top teams in the east each week had lafayette in the number ten position for several weeks comparative scores usually mean little or nothing and in the lehigh-lafayette rivalry they normally can be tossed out the window but they are al ways interesting and good chewing material for follow ers of the two schools judging by comparative scores le high has a slight advantage laf ayette's two defeats came at the hands of teams that the big brown defeated however delaware's trouncing of bill leckonby's eleven does give the easton fans encour agement since the leopards rolled over the blue hens an oddity has occurred in the middle three competition during the past several years lehigh has defeated rutgers and lafayette has lost to the scarlet thus setting up lehigh as the favorite in the game see hokuf page 9 by ray farkas where is the 1,205 stolen from the hp dance receipts that was only a minor question today the big one is who if anybody is taking the trouble to look for it up till wednesday the bethlehem detective bureau wasn't in vestigating andrew w litzenberger director of buildings and grounds had told the brown and white sunday that as far as i know two detectives are working on the case detective melvin packard chief of the detective bureau was un aware that such a probe was being conducted according to wednesday's globe-times litzenberger claimed that the bethlehem police had been notified oct 31 the wednesday after houseparty when the theft was revealed according to bethlehem detective frank s donchez we were officially notified today wednesday — two weeks after the lit zenberger date by bob bollinger it's a toss-up was bill leck onby's only comment when pressed for a prediction on tomorrow's big game in past years the experts have tried to name favorites although it is a hopeless task in a rivalry of this type but this year even most of them refuse to go out on a limb our victories over rutgers and gettysburg both of whom topped the leopards might indicate that we were stronger but both of those games were very close added leek he also suggested that lafayette may have been pointing for lehigh and were not up for the games what's more we lost to delaware who were handily beaten in their game with lafayette talking about the delaware game leek pointed out that all our mistakes hurt us al though he admitted we weren't play ing our best ball leopard coach steve hukof has been alternating two teams this year playing each one for a quarter at a time the lehigh mentor stated this has worn some teams down and is one of their major strong points joe bozik beat us last year and see comparative page 10 eleven seniors complete careers against lafayette his final appearance in a lehigh uniform tomorrow short picked twice this season on the all east team broke tom gunn's career pass catching record last see maslowski page 12 detective donchez along with de tective john j donchez were named by the buildings and grounds chief as the pair investigating the case both detectives professed that they had not been notified and had received no request to investigate john donchez was quoted in the globe-times as saying that he hadn't been to the university on of ficial business in a long time frank donchez had heard an off-hand report of the larceny after church services on nov 4 — four days after the robbery had come to light to university officials did you find out anything about see theft page 8 by john mimnaugh damage to the lafayette college football field rumored to total 2,400 the eating plan problem the proposed revision of arcadia elec tions for the 11th arcadia and the long - talked - about snow removal fiasco were discussed by 13 campus solons at the arcadia meeting wed nesday night on nov 2 and 3 considerable damage including the spelling of an lu on the football field and the painting of lehigh in white letters on various campus buildings was committed on the lafayette campus according to a letter circulated to four campus leaders by the dean of students since the lehigh lafayette peace pact was signed on nov 7 four days after the incidents arcadia members were rather skeptical as to whether lehigh will be held re sponsible prexy bill collins advised that it will be wise for arcadia mem bers to consider what action should be taken when and if any bills for the damage do arrive it was pointed out that last see busy page 6 lafayette lehigh al adlemann le austin short jim o'brien lt pete williams bill harrick lg joe capuano norig ellison c alex maslowski 808 burcin rg pete johnson mike mccooye rt walt bianco james kontie re tom faillace joe bozik qb dan nolan gordon brown lhb 808 naylor jack slotter rhb keith rust alan stephens fb walt pljawka probable starting lineup by roger w zerweck eleven seniors who have never seen the lehigh varsity defeat lafayette will end their careers to morrow at easton seven of the group can be classified as regulars while the other four played in subordin ate roles during their three years of varsity play leading the parade of seniors is left-halfback bob naylor naylor has thrilled the packer fans during the past three years with many dazzling kickoff and punt returns he also has led the team in rush ing during the past tv/o seasons naylor a chemical engineer from lambertville n.j was the fifth leading ground gainer in the east last year racking up 569 yards in eight games this year bob has surpassed that figure by rushing for 593 yards in 105 attempts again this year he is among the top five rushing leaders in the east bob for his outstanding play against temple last year won the maxwell award austin short also will make lehigh to enter tilt as slight favorite packers hope for 31st victory in 92nd game with leopards by roger zerweck before during and after jim dickson a lafayette freshman is shown receiving a lehigh l style haircut from several taylor dorm barbers earlier this week dickson a pledge at the kappa sigma house on the easton campus was picked up by the barbers at the easton train station after he accepted a ride up the hill — but to the wrong campus scalped — bill collins arcadia president is shown sporting an l haircut shaved onto his head wednesday night by a group of upperclass men who said this original and unique prank will instill more spirit for the lafayette clash schedule lists parade rally parties football today judging of fraternity exhibits 4 to 8 p.m pep rally in grace hall 7:30 frosh pajama march to mora vian immediately following rally tomorrow lehigh-lafayette football game 1:30 rhc cocktail party 7:30 rich ards lounge rhc dance 9 drown hall rhc beer party after dance in richards lounge fraternity parties continuing all evening