Brown and White Vol. 19 no. 4

              a glimpse of the sophomore and freshman teams wednesday afternoon coach rei ter put the thirty men who showed up for football practice through a strenuous afternoon first he in structed the line in blocking getting through and opening up a hole pazzetti and price practiced drop kicks and goals from placement after this both varsity and scrubs went through a long signal practice before lining up for scrimmage in this the scrubs played the varsity almost to a standstill working a delayed pass through the line a ty eral times for substantial gains ackerly usually carried the ball in this play and did well in the new position back of the line for the varsity mccaffrey showed up well and doing clever dodging in a num ber of line gains around the ends flick also showed great speed in long end runs vela played his usual good game at end each side secured one touchdown the scrubs came as an exceptionally long punt which the varsity touched but fail ed to handle while the varsity's came on straight football the best chance the varsity had to make another score was when the scrubs held for downs on the 20 yard line and price tried a drop kick which failed by scarcely a foot far the varsity price worked the onside kick repeatedly and it usually resulted in a gain dayton paz zetti and western did not play the following is the line-up which be gan the scrimmage : varsity positions scrubs vela l e wagner bianco l t florien mackenzie l g sanford wylie c dickey fairhurst r g schmidt wilson r t cox greene r e rouse price q goyne flick l h cann mccaffrey r h schmutz kennedy f b ackerly there has recently appeared on the market a book written by har wood frost 93 a specialist in tech nical literature under the title of " good engineering literature this book is 5 x 7y 2 inches in size contains 406 pages bound in cloth and is published by the author the chicago book company acting as the distributing sales agents mr frost's book treats of a sub ject that is of great interest to every progressive engineer and prof f p mckibben head of the civil en gineering department has the fol lowing to say about the work : when one investigates the me diums through which an engineer may express his thoughts in writing it is surprising to find how many opportunities present themselves to him who having something to say has also that rare gift of putting his ideas so clearly and so forcibly that even he who runs must read not only must the engineer be able to write reports and specifications as a matter of common occurrence in the discharge of his ordinary duties but he must from time to time turn aside from the commonplace and endeavor to produce a written work which by its exceptional quality aids him to keep alive that inspira tion so necessary for the concep tion and execution of great things it is partly for this reason that en gineers write for the technical press and for engineering societies and now and then even venture to dress up their ideas in book form and by so doing usually give to their pro fession the best of which they are capable easy it is to see the importance of writing when one has something to say but difficult is it to answer the question how may a young en gineer acquire this faculty ? in that admirable little book from a col lege window my copy of which i value most highly because it was given by an english student from eton and cambridge benson prac tically says that the way to learn to write is to write and when one thinks of it that is pretty sound advice la carrying out this advice the beginner will find mr frost's book very helpful because it treats of so many things of practical impor tance a knowledge of which is gained only by long experience in writing and editing engineering ar ticles the book has twenty-two chapters beginning with those on literary expression rhetoric and grammar preparation of manu scripts for publication and ending with those relating to indexing lit continued on fourth page a compilation of statistics rel ative to the athletic supremacy for the past year in intercollegiate cir cles was made recently by a promi nent newspaper cornell was ra ted in first position for the first time since it has entered intercol legiate athletics counting each sport as one point the scores of the first eight institu tions are as follows : cornell 5 yale 4j4 j / 2 , princeton 2j4 harvard 2 co lumbia 1 pennsylvania 1 haverford 1 and the navy 1 sport college . football harvard baseball princeton track cornell rowing cornell cross country cornell basketball columbia association football . . . haverford golf yale tennis yale and princeton gymnastics yale lacrosse harvard hockey cornell fencing cornell swimming and water-polo . . . yale shooting yale wrestling princeton if the relative importance of the four major sports and the minor ones is considered the concensus of opinion must concede that no other college has a claim for the lead yale and pennsylvania are the only other universities that ever won such high honors in a single year and when it is considered that cor nell made a hard stand for the base ball championship as well it may be stated that cornell's 1911 record is superior to anything ever done by either pennsylvania or yale the statistics show that yale's strength was centered in the minor sports the football title was giv en to harvard although she did not defeat yale with the exception of yale however harvard won over every team she played while yale was distinctly below the stan dard columbia has an undisputed claim to the basketball champion ship and the new york team has failed only twice since its organiza tion to win this honor the cricket championship goes to pennsylvania without much con sideration haverford has the best hold on the association football ti tle although they did not have many contenders for the honor the separate contests which de cided the championships were in many cases unusual when compared with games later on princeton's victory over yale in track gave signs of a strong stand for the for mer in the intercollegiate meet at harvard but yale showed sur continued on third page owing to the early date of foun der's day this year the teams which are to contest for the honors on saturday have had but a short time to practice but in spite of this fact snappy games may be expected a fairly good number of men have been out and by hard work have gotten into the best possible shape in the time allowed of the foot ball team little can be said at this time charnock jay williams pettigrew baker and white of the 1914 team of last year are out and with these men as a nucleus capt white hopes to build up a strong team the freshmen however have some very promising material which under the care of dugan,'l3 have developed beyond all expecta tions and the sophomores may feel assured that they will have no easy task to get away with the game in weight both teams are about the same each averaging a little over 145 pounds the line-ups of the teams will not be known until just before the game in baseball 1914 appears to have the advantage with driscoll gatch and bell of last year's varsity in their line-up about fifteen men have been out since the opening of col lege and although the weather has been unfavorable they have prac ticed steadily the team as a whole looks very good but they may encounter an obstacle in the form of dickey the 1915 pitcher dickey is a former bethlehem prep star who pitched at franklin and marshall last year with great suc cess and it is in him the freshmen are placing their hopes greenhugh another bethlehem prep man will be at the receiving end for 1915 while crichton will take care of the initial sack incidentally this will be a good opportunity for the fans to size up the new material for next year's varsity for 1914 the team will be composed of the following men : mayer gallaway gatch paz zetti dayton mccaffrey howard bell driscoll capt the 1915 team will be picked from the following men : dickey crichton albrecht vance steele geyer higgins seiger miller chandler evans pierson green hugh capt if the number of men out for the relay teams had any effect on the result of the race the freshmen would win by a large margin the men have turned out in fine style and while little is known of their ability it is the opinion of many that there are some very good men among them the sophomores will be handicapped by the absence of murphy but will nevertheless continued on third page the brown and white lehigh university wednesday's practice bethlehem pa friday october 6 1911 intercollegiate athletic rating founder's day sports review by prof mckibben vol xix a long signal drill precedes the scrimmage star sties concerning athletic supremacy for 1910-11 he recommends " good engi neering literature by frost no 4 it is absolutely impera tive that the football manager shall know by tuesday evening exactly how many men will ac company the team to princeton on wednesday oct 11th unless a total of 125 men decide to go it will be impossible to charter a special train get your ticket now any member of the arca dia will supply you