Brown and White Vol. 8 no. 7A

              f j payne 1900 has returned to college to finish up some work he played guard on the varsity last fall and will be a valuable ad dition to the foot ball squad athletic committee james l rankin of the class of 96 was the victim of a sad accident which occurred in pittsburg pa on saturday october 13 and one which resulted in almost instanta neous death it appears that ran kin and a companion were out for an afternoon ride on horseback and the former's horse becoming fright ened by the noise of an approach ing trolley car bolted across the track and was run down the rider was hurled from his horse with such force on the hard asphalt road way that his skull was badly frac tured and death was a matter of only a few moments the deceased was assistant chief engineer of the american tinplate company of pittsburg and was prominent in business and social circles mr rankin was born in savannah ga in 1875 his family was a prominent southern one and he came north to obtain his educa tion : t lehigh he was active in college affairs particularly in la crosse and theatricals and was very popular with his classmates he was a member of the alpha tau omega fraternity his untimely death will be sincerely mourned resolutions by the class of 96 whereas almighty god in his all-wise providence has seen fit to take from our midst our beloved companion and classmate and whereas we keenly realize that in his death we have lost one whose ability sincerity and sterling quali ties endeared him to all who knew him ; be it resolved that we the class of ninety-six of lehigh university hereby express our deep sorrow in his loss and extend to his family our sincerest sympathy in their be reavement h w baldwin w c dickerman h shriver r e laramy pres s m dessauer secy committee at a recent meeting of the ex ecutive committee the following members of last season's base ball team were awarded l's bohannon sellers barton and lilley having broken the shot put record lindley of the track team was also awarded an l j h crane was appointed mana ger of the base ball team tim burns manager of the lacrosse team and sam t harleman mana ger of the track and gymnasium teams for the season of 1901 a communication was received from dr drown stating that the class of 1900 had presented a solid silver loving cup for inter-class foot ball contests under the same rules as the class base ball contests are held the cup is now ready and the different classes should have their teams at work for these con tests which must be held this fall yale harvard pennsylvania and cornell now have brass bands com posed entirely of students complete list of new men in college sones dn • '. ee 1902 kelley a r e e person n m 1903 macfarlane a d em hinckle c f em miller e f em 1904 archer j g c e baily g c e barnard hp ac barton j c c e baumgartner c g e e bayles h g met beaghen t me beaver j l e e bell w r ac benner j a ac bennett w b bentley b c c e berger a g me bern stein l c e bird r c e e bishop l g e e bloss c j c e bonner h g me borowsky a g e e bower l m c e brandes g h e e brewster o e e brillhart jh ce brown ec e e brown h g e e budke f w me bullock e q me burchsted a r me burrows f g l s butz c e e e caballero c ce campbell h f ce campos j g em carl j j me carr c c em caum s ler m e clauder ah ce cleveland h b e e coleman h e e cornwell b a ee cox w j sp a c coyle j r me cram w c ce crellin w t ac davidson a p ee desh g r ce dismant j w ee dittmar c j ee dougherty w , dow b g ce ':.' dunbar w e c e ' edelen s ce continued on third page the second home game of the season was played on saturday against rutgers a clear cool day and no wind seemed to fore-j cast a fast and snappy contest but in spite of the perfect conditions the gam,e was tedious and unin teresting calls for time were fre quent and several trien were obliged to leave the game on account of injuries 1 the attendance was very poor a great many students having gone to easton to attend the princeton lafayette game mann and fobish did the best work for rutgers while dornin and farabaugh ex celled for lehigh the game was called at 3.30 lehigh defending the east goal gearhart kicked to the 20-yard line rutgers did their strongest work of the game at this point and by successive rushes advanced the ball to the 50-yard line where lehigh secured it on downs after a few small gains dow made a 30 yard run and touch down but be cause of off side play was brought back to the 15 yard line the ground was being rapidly gained when lehigh was penalized 15 yards for foul interference two short gains were made then fara baugh carried the ball 1 1 yards for a touch down after six minutes of play mccormick failed in an at tempt to punt out score lehigh 5 rutgers o rutgers kicked over the line and lehigh returned from the 20-yard line the visitors were unable to gain and were forced to kick mccormick caught the ball but it was given to rutgers who kicked again from this point the ball was steadily pushed down the field to the 20-yard line where gearhart succeeded in making a place kick score lehigh 10 rutgers o shortly after the kick-off time was called in the second lehigh defending the west goal rutgers kicked to 1 0-yard line but flanagan brought the ball forward 15 yards two short gains were made and mc cormick kicked to the 50-yard lyjgj g rutgers rwas : held for downs lehigh securing the ball on her 3 5 yard jjne y , ; the ball changed hands several times with little continued on fourth page scrub foot ball trip to wikes barre the second foot ball team will go to wilkes-barre next saturday to play the wyoming seminary team the team will leave south bethlehem saturday morning and will return the same evening the brown and white james lee rankin calendar no 7 a new students lehigh university south bethlehem pa monday october 22 1900 foot ball lehigh 21 ; rutgers o vol vni wednesday october 24 at 2.30 p m base ball 1902 vs 1904 on lehigh field saturday oct 27 — foot ball — naval cadets at anapolis sunday oct 28 at 9.30 a m — bible study class in christ mas flail at 6.15 p m — meeting of christian association in christ mas hall important notice the election for athletic rep resentative-at-large will be held wednesday october 24th from 11.20 to 12.45 jim's room packer hall all those who have purchased membership tickets are eligible voters tickets must be presented when the vote is cast the nominees are buch crane harleman and symington college notes