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              continued on fourth page successful meeting held the first college smoker of the season was held in the gym on friday evening in preparation for the dickinson game on saturday after three rousing lehighs had been given the minstrel show quartet rendered several selections in their usual pleasing manner this was followed by a short speech by dr newton he spoke of the hard luck the team has had and the trouble in developing a team from new material in clos ing he compared the team to a rat in a corner and the way that rat could fight any one who saw the game on saturday well knows a basket ball gamie was played betwleen the sophomores and freshmen from the start the freshmen had a little the better nf it but the game was hotly contested throughout the score at the end of the first half was 14 to 7 in favor of the freshmen in the second half neither side had much of an advantage and the goals were al most all thrown on difficult shots the half ended with the score 22 to 14 in the freshmen's favor for the freshmen long and priestly c'id the best work while for the sophomores travis and hartzell excelled the line-uo 1907 1908 balston forward trotitman ochs forward long hanst hays center priestly pierce hartzell guard mcmurtrie laubenstein travis guard anderson goals from field hartzell 4 balston travis priestly 3 troti man 2 long 3 anderson 2 from fouls travis hartzell an derson long referee clay ; um pire mcmullen next on the orogram was a box ing match between fernandes of the new york a c and bixler of the broadway a c it was very exciting throughout the four rounds and ended in a draw white 05 was referee after several college songs had been sung and short speeches made by berg saffold and adams the smoker adjourned to have a pa rade the line was mar^aled out side of the gym and marched through several of the streets of south bethlehem then across the river to bethlehem and back over the toll bridge after a long march and much cheering the parade dis banded miners organize continued on fourth page new engineering society a meeting of the senior junior and sophomore miners was held in williams hall last thursday even ing in spite of a math quiz which prevented a full attendance of the sophomores and unfortu nately sonse of the juniors about twenty-four men were present professor eckfeldt professor irv ing and mr brown were also there the meeting was called to order and election of officers first taken up the result was as follows : president r c kautz 05 vijce-president m deß evans l.6 secretary w j yon borrics 05 treasurer c m johnson 05 a committee was then appointed to draw up a constitution after which professor eckfeldt was called upon to address the meeting f e spoke of former societies of this kind which had existed at various times at lehigh and of the object of such an organization he said that the mining course was one of he broadest in the university add : ■ sr if you don't know it now you will before you get through need less to say we all agreed he sug gested that since geology and min •.>; are so closely related the name of the organization be the mi . j.ng and geological society professor irving wa 1 net • t re quested to give us a few pointers ; in so doing he mentioned the benefit to be derived from gaining a prac t'cal insight into the questions con nected with technical courses also the advantages in a public speak ing line as regards the geologi al side he said that we must not lose sight of the fact that interest ing geological deposits were within easy reach and would form suoio t matter for discussion and visits a general discussion was then entered upon the matter of dues a program for next meeting and other things were taken up professor eckfeldt professor irving and mr sullivan were elected honorary members of the society a committee was appointed to take charge of the program as the sophomores had a quiz to study for the meeting was adjourned and informal discussions started a room similar to the one now occupied by the mechanical society will be placed at the disposal of the m-'ners and it is tin to every one of the scrub team went to king ton saturday where they played the wyoming seminary although out-weighed the boys put up a good game and held their oponents clown to tw r o touchdowns both of which were made within the first ten minutes of play the first score was made on straight line bucks on the next kick off wyoming rushed the ball after a hard strug gle to the 10-yard line from where it was carried over by an end run after this the scrub braced and four times held their opponents for downs within their 5-yard line once when the ball was within six inches of the goal in the second half neither side could make any decided gains and the ball changed hands a number of times on downs in the evening the team were guests at a hallowe'en party given in the seminary gymnasium the following is the line-up of the scrubs : r e van dyne r t payne r e sisson c funk l g young l t enke l e hayes q 8 fulton l h torrey r h w s bayless f 8 cro wither forum program the following program will be carried out at the forum meeting wednesday evening question for debate resolved that the philip pines should be granted a free and independent government aftirma tive kuryla 05 stern 08 nega tive shema 05 reinke 05 re view of national affairs seipt 05 the brown and white no 12 vol xii foot ball l"ismlij"ri l"ismiij"ri ujnivilkoi i i south bethlehem pa monday october 31 1904 calendar college smoker tuesday nov 1 at 5 p m , brown and white board meeting at christmas hall wednesday nov 2 at 7.30 p m forum meeting at saucon hall thursday nov 3 at 4 p m foot ball practice on lehigh field every evening from 5 to 6 p m cheering practice saturday nov 5 foot ball game at ithaca n v cornell vs le high saturday nov 12 foot ball game at syracuse n v syracuse vs lehigh wyoming 10 scrub o lehigh o — dickinson 6 the result of saturday's game with dickinson college clearly demonstrated the effect of the hard work put in by coach newton and dr knipe during the past week dr newton's prediction at the smoker friday night that the team would fight hard was completely fulfilled barring the first two minutes of play when dickinson scored her one touchdown on a fluke the game was one of the most exciting and closely contested struggles seen on lehigh field for some time the game is practically a lehigh victory for dickinson's team is one of the strongest in their history and after her tie game with annapolis it was feared a large score would be run up the dickinson supporters were greatly surprised at the strong defense put tip by lehigh the brown and white line held time after tim when huge davis bucked and it was only by end runs and bucks off tackle that dickinson could gain at all on the other hand the offense seemed rather weak until the sec ond half when considerable ground was gained by heavy fast bucks and fake runs around end a num ber of costly fumbles at critical times prevented lehigh from get ting within reach of dickinson's goal line tihe play was marred some what by a number of offside plays and holding in the line both sides being penalized several times for the latter offense for dickinson robinson davis and seeley were the stars pyne played a hard game until retired in the second half on account of injuries ballinger a freshnnan who has only been out this week played a good game and premises to develop into a strong line man bachman and alcott bucked the line hard and low in the second half and made good sub stantial gains the game in detail was as fol lows lehigh won the toss and chose to defend the west goal davis kicked to pearson on the iq-yard line who ran back 15 yards lehigh made her distance in two bucks on the next play dickinson was panalized 5 yards for being off side alcott made 6 yaids lehigh fumbled dickinson got the ball and carried it to the 25-yard line on steady bucks here robinson broke through tackle and