Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 5

              an important college meeting was held on friday morning in packer hall dr drinker was the first speaker after a few announcements with regard to founder's day celebra tions he presented a new idea for the consideration of the student body : that of giving scholastic credit for athletic work done by students this idea is not used in any college and here again lehigh will be the fore-runner the pur pose of the idea is two-fold : first to encourage the custom of proper daily exercise without which good scholastic work is practically im possible and second to bring to light whatever latent athletic talent there is in college dr drinker also advised the student body to consider the dis continuance of the opening night rush and the substitution of a saner contest such as a tug of war in closing he bade farewell to the stu dent body on behalf of mrs drinker and himself preparatory to their trip to japan and the rousing cheers that were given him on his departure signified the unanimous wish of the student body for a safe and happy journey prof reiter was then called on to give his opinion on the new plan and after several remarks by mem bers of the student body a commit tee was appointed by president ed wards to act on the matter e e yake spoke briefly concern ing the civic league convention to which he was appointed delegate last june numerous talks on col lege spirit and increased attendance at cheering practice and games followed by several announcements in regard to the combined musical associations special notice was given to the fact that no college band has been organized as yet and as this is a necessary factor in pee rades a strong appeal was made for candidates rooney 13 brought to the at tention of the student body that prizes for epitome work were of fered and that there was no time like the present to begin work es pecially in the photographic line an announcement was made con cerning the princeton trip and the meeting was adjourned to create a more general inter est in public affairs among the un dergraduates and to study the prac tical as well as the theoretical as pects of the problems of govern ment an encouragingly large num ber of students gathered in drown hall on sunday afternoon and formed what will probably be known as the lehigh politics club it was during march that mr e m sait secretary of the inter collegiate civic league addressed the student body on the work that is being done by the forty clubs of the league at the leading american colleges and universities and fol lowing this talk e e yake 12 was elected by the student body as a delegate to the fifth annual con vention of the league held in april in new york city the report of the delegate was given at the col lege meeting last friday and the interest aroused by this report was intensified and deepened to no small extent by mr mccrea's founder's day address which came at a most opportune time from the standpoint of this movement containing as it did a strong appeal to educational institutions to embody in their cur ricula exactly the work that the politics club in conjunction with the department of economics and history is planning to do after mr yake had explained the main features of the constitu tion of one of the clubs of the league the following officers were elected president e e yake 12 first vice-president e w cook 12 second vice-president e a wheaton 12 secretary h h otto 12 treasurer v b ed wards 12 the following com mittee has been appointed to draw up a constitution to be presented for adoption at the next meeting the date of which will depend upon the length of time required by the committee to complete its work : e w cook h h otto v b ed wards c a schulz and e a wheaton after the organization had been effected prof j l stewart was called upon for an expression of his views on the work contempla ted by the club his remarks in emphasizing the importance and n^ed of the study of politics were very interesting and decidedly helpful prof f p mckibben of the department of civil engineering has been appointed consulting en gineer by the investigating com mittee on the recent austin disaster lehigh's defeat by bucknell on friday october the sixth can best be described as simply the result of a battle of toe vs toe through out the entire game whenever punts were exchanged the brown and white lost consistently the ex change nearly always netting the bucknell eleven from ten to twenty yards the orange and blue with in our thirty-yard line was a foe to be more than respected as topham proved when in the sec ond period he made the only score of the game by booting the pig-skin between the lehigh goal-posts from our twenty-five yard line owing to the change in the date formerly fixed for the contest and possibly to the fact that most of the townspeople could not well arrange to see a week-day game the at tendance was unusually small the number of students present was however greater than that at any contest this year lehigh in spite of her defeat showed up well the brown and white gained consistently both on plunges through the bucknell line and on end runs toward the end the lehigh backfield rushed the ball to bucknell's fifteen-yard line at this juncture of the game flick got away with amazing swiftness and could always be counted on for long gains crichton too made several good runs an attempted forward pass to mccaffrey however was fumbled and topham on the next play booted the ball back into safe territory it appeared for an instant that mccaffrey had been downed before he touched the ball but the officials decided otherwise by dickson's bunch this year is one of the best that the lewisburg college has placed on the gridiron for some time the team although light is very well balanced and has in schmidt an agressive leader topham cruickshank and jordan are amazingly fast however the two former getting around our ends for good gains while the latter fol lowed up punts in a manner not be fore seen on lehigh field this year flick mccaffrey vela and crichton showed up exceptionally well for the brown and white the former being a terror to the vis itors especially in the last period when he was run with the ball con tinuously pazzetti twice tried for a field goal within bucknell's twenty-five yard line but was each time unsuc cessful he had gone into the game with a very bad leg and was continued on third page get your handbook only a few of y m c a hand books of the 1911-1912 edition re main for distribution and those who have not yet been supplied are requested by the secretary to call early at the office of the asso ciation in drown hall and obtain their copies continued on fourth page the brown and white i^rsriujril uin 1 v jcrjt\.ox iv bethlehem pa tuesday october 10 1911 founder's day sports dr drinker ad dresses students no 5 bucknell 3 lehigh 0 vol xix politics club organized advocates putting athletics on scholastic basis visitors win by a drop kick in second period work advocated by mr mccrea to be taken up freshmen win all three events by close margins for the first time in four years a freshman class at lehigh univers ity has won the privilege of wear ing flannel shirts and corduroy trousers the freshmen not only won that privilege but went a step farther and won all three of the sports a feat which has not been achieved since 1905 it must not be supposed however that the freshmen had a walkover far from it it is true that in the re lay race the freshmen had the ad vantage all the way through but in the baseball and football games the results were in doubt until the last moment in the relay race the freshmen won easily berg who ran first took the lead at the start each of his team mates widened the gap and borgman who ran last crossed the line a winner by fifty yards the time was 3 rhin 34 4-5 sec which is 4-5 sec less than the rec ord the teams were sophomores — • schreiber ash mickel todd bickley freshmen — berg connette keith norton borgman start er schultz 12 judges dawson 11 and terwilliger 12 timers donaldson 12 and vannort 13 time 3.34 4-5 the sophomores had a lead of three runs in the baseball game when the freshmen earned four runs and from then on until the end the game was nip and tuck the freshmen finally won in the last inning by scoring two runs score 7 to 5 freshmen 004 1002 — 7 sophomores 2 1110 0 0 — 5 although the freshmen won the football game the sophomores out played them and really deserved the game the freshmen scored in the first three minutes of play when baker fumbled one of wil freshmen r h o a e evans 2b 1 higgins 3b 1 sreenhalgh c 0 crichton lb 1 albrecht ss 1 miller cf 1 dickey p 0 steele p 0 sieger if 0 linke rf 1 chandler rf 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 2 7 2 8 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 totals 7 7 21 10 3 sophomores r h o a e mayne if 1 1 2 0 0 jatch lb 1 1 8 2 1 howard ss p '. 1 1 2 3 0 mccaffrey 3b 0 1 0 2 2 browne cf 0 0 1 0 0 salloway 2b 1 0 2 3 0 lopez rf 1 1 0 0 0 bell c 0 0 6 2 0 driscoll p ss 0 2 0 0 0 totals 5 7 21 12 3