Brown and White Vol. 2 no. 12

              why it should be played in the last number of the popu lar science monthly is an article on the football situation by prof eugene lamb richards of yale university that is well worthy of the perusal of all interested in this our national college game whether directly or indirectly he evident ly writes somewhat on the defen sive to combat the present feeling against football that has grown rife in some parts of the country and it must be confessed that he ac complishes his purpose admirably according to professor richards football is anything but a brutal sport on the contrary it requires a high order of intellectual devel opment to thoroughly grasp and remember the number of rules — greater than in any other game ; also in the subservience of every thing to team work and the task of fixing in mind all the signals employed for the great number of plays he shows from his own statistics that the standing of the football men is uniformly high and that it was increased at the time the number of players was reduced from twenty to eleven again its physical benefits are among the greatest every college of any size says professor richards supports at least two complete elevens these with the number of subs men on class teams etc frequently keep over forty men in perfect training at yale with re gard to both diet and physique probably the best results of all are the moral ones in twenty years experience professor rich ards says he has found the captains of the teams as well as a large ma jority of the best players honorable christian men the game culti vates two of the greatest virtues : courage and self control the healthy excitement it provides does away in a great measure with hazing rows with the townspeople gambling and other college evils another advantage lies in the time of the year devoted to it the in coming classes arrive right in the midst of a scene of eager honorable competition and are thus at the very outset of their college career stimulated and spurred on to exert every energy for their alma mater the game by spreading from the college to the preparatory school has done immeasurable good in bringing to college a much better class of boys than was the custom before it became so widespread thus it raises the standard of the college in this indirect way as well as per se among the great evils commonly ascribed to football there stand pre-eminent 1 the time devoted to practice ; 2 extravagance in the money earned ; and 3 brutality the professor meets all these ad mirably showing that in the first case too much time devoted to metoxen kicked to c thurston who went 15 yards but was downed by a hard tackle the ball was then worked to the indians 4-yard line but was lost on a fumble they worked it out 18 and then the pale-faces captured it and traf ton easily made a touchdown bar nard again failed to kick goal score lehigh 8 indians 6 time 6 minutes on the kick-off c thurston made a run of 30 yards warner was hurt in the head but pluckily re sumed play lehigh got to the 10-yard line only to lose the ball by holding the three big chiefs caswell metoxen and mcfarland held a consultation with the result that they tried a double pass for 3 yards caswell then made a run of 20 yards around left end by means of good interference great yelling by his comrades and applause from the audience metoxen then whooped it up for another twenty yards he was downed by a hard tackle from c thurston who literally had his clothes torn from his back and was compelled to lay off for repairs while jerry phillips filled his place the indians then lost the ball on downs lehigh whacked away at centre but could not gain warner was hurt and replaced by houk the ball was then worked to the 5-yard line trafton tried a run ning high jump cleared the rush line and scored the last touchdown for this half becerra could not kick the goal score : lehigh 12 ; indians 4 time was called 50 seconds later soon after the second half began barnard was hurt joe thurston took his place and dick took joe's place at tackle harrison made a touchdown 2 minutes after the sec ond half began from which okeson kicked a goal score : lehigh 8 ; indians 12 mcfarland made a run around right end for 20 yards on the kick-off and was well-cheered five minutes later joe thurston made the last touchdown and oke son failed to kick goal score : lehigh 22 indians 12 time was soon called with the ball in the centre of the field the teams lined up as follows : lehigh v s indian school g s \ left end austin diek 1 !". 1 ' 88 * 0 ." 1 • • - left tackle buck keyes left guard wheelock baldwin centre lone wolf becerra right guard pierce trafton right tackle irwin okeson ftj|ht end ... \ fjjjj phniips sfcon ! i • q uarter back shelafo harrison left half back . . . mcfarland j a thurbton < ■ - ri s ht half back - • • - gaswell gass ard " \ full back metoxen substitutes american horse schanan dore cayou and houk phillips dick referee heffelfinger umpire smith linesman s-iylor first half 25 minutes second half 20 minutes touchdowns cas well gass trafton 2 harrison metoxen and thurston goals pierce 2 okeson «. , p g sykes 94 was in town several days last week lehigh 22 u s indian school 12 the red men whoop it up for two touchdowns football saturday afternoon fifteen full blooded indians in war paint with one of their teachers who acted as manager came down from the car lisle indian school and made the long hair of the varsity eleven stand straight up with surprise and fright instead of a score of fifty to nothing as every one expected they held us down to twenty-two points and in the easiest possible manner scored two goals against us their interference was excellent especially when trying centre plays and it was seldom that they failed to make the required gain ; while their defensive game was perhaps the strongest seen on the home grounds this season it was an ex tremely interesting game to watch and every good play was loudly ap plauded by the small but enthusi astic crowd on the bleachers metoxen true to his name put up a particularly strong game it seemed next to impossible to keep him from going through the line every time he tried caswell play ed a very plucky game he is the fastest runner on the team having won the championship of the state for the one hundred yards dash thurston and harrison distinguish ed themselves in skirting the ends but through the line very few long gains were made captain trafton and coach ll effel finger were very much dissatisfied with the showing of the team considering that the aborigines have been playing only three weeks and have had but three days coaching by vance mccormick they put up a wonderfully clever game and their work against the naval cadets on the 31st of this month will be watched with inter est as we play at annapolis three days later the game was called at 3.20 o'clock by mr heffelfinger metox en kicked to yates who fum bled and in trying to get the ball from an indian hurt his shoulder and was replaced by best the indians then worked the ball up the field without once losing it and just two minutes after the game was started caswell made a touchdown from which pierce kick ed the goal score indians 6 ; lehigh 0 harrison then kicked off cas well dodged 15 yards under good interference amid cheering lehigh got the ball on downs but harri son could only make a yard before metoxen had his scalp the double pass was then tried and so sur prised the indians that they stood with open mouths and pale faces while gass ambled twenty yards for a touchdown barnard failed to kick goal score indians 6 lehigh 4 time 3 minutes the brown and white tf o 12 lehigh university south bethlehem pa october 22 1894 vol 11 calendar wednesday oct 24 — football lehigh vs princeton prince ton 8 p m electrical engineering so ciety physical laboratory 7.30 p m glee and banjo club concert opera house mauch chunk 8 p m saturday 0ct 27 — re-exammatioa in entrance arithmetic physi cal laboratory 8.30 a m football lehigh vs orange athletic club orange n j sunday oct 28 — christian asso ciation christinas hall 6 q p m monday oct 29 — engineering society physical laboratory 7.30 p m notices there will be a meeting of the committee on an honor system at the sigma nu house this monday evening at 7 o'clock notice will be posted in packer hall for the time of distribution of the rebate on the tickets to phila delphia obtained from the phila delphia and eeading eailroad company a w harnbd practice is prejudicial to good work and hence this evil is its own rem edy ; in the second he shows ex actly how the money earned at yale is disposed of which is in anything but an extravagant man ner and in the third case the game simply cannot be brutal as it would have died long ago were this the case zes the article was written before the adoption of the new rules it is unnecessary to comment upon the suggested changes as they have all been made since the only change that has not been enacted and which seems worthy of serious con sideration is a closer feeling be tween team and faculty than at present exists professor rich ards suggests that a regular mem ber of the undergraduate faculty have the matter in his charge and being on terms of equal intimacy with the professors and athletes bring them into closer sympathy whether this would result benefi cially or not is a question that can be decided only by a practical ap plication there seems to be no reason why it should not as it shows in its conception the same wisdom and forethought that char acterize the entire sketch and make it well worthy of a permanent place in the literature of college athletics «. w a payne 94 is taking post graduate work at columbia univ the early communion class held on sunday w&s very well attended about forty were present sharpe 93 was in town recently football