Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 11

              facts about the game first downs lehigh 10 muhlenberg 4 penalties lehigh 50 muhlenberg 35 forward passes lehigii muhlenberg attempted . 10 successful 4 attempted . 4 successful 0 punts lehigh muhlenberg cahall averaged 45 yards caskey averaged 44 yards hubbard averaged .... 42 yards kick-offs lehigh muhlenberg cahall averaged 53 yards fleming averaged ...... 45 yards fumbles lehigh 3 and recovered 1 muhlenberg .. 1 and recovered 1 the campus trees must be sacrificed chestnuts being hewn down be cause of blight new trees have been planted during the present college year the student body has viewed with surprise and regret the removal of a large number of the magnificent old trees that have adorned the le high university grounds for so many years they have gone far in making the campus one of the finest and handsomest in the coun try and the pride of every lehigh man in response to the popular curiosity mr j c cranmer su perintendent of buildings an d grounds gave the following facts for publication : it is very natural that the under graduates and alumni view with distress the taking down of the many beautiful old chestnut trees which have adorned the campus since the days of the founder ; some of them for an even longer period of time this is however a condition forc ed upon the administrative officers of the university in order to safe guard the many other species of the forest trees some of grand and no ble proportions ; many of primeval forest stock the insidious chest nut blight is rapidly spreading its work of destruction throughout the eastern and northern united states and is most virulent in new hamp shire vermont massachusetts connecticut new york new jer sey pennsylvania and delaware it is rapidly moving west and south west into maryland virginia and west virginia the state govern ment of pennsylvania alone ex pended 275,000 in an effort to stay this work of devastation the genius and science of the best plant pathologists of the vari ous state governments aided by the professional sylviculturalists and botanists of the united states de partment of agriculture have been unable to discover any means of ar resting this blight it follows then that what seems to the friends of lehigh universi ty a ruthless cutting of trees is but the necessary work of removing centers of infection as a proper pre caution against the possible destruc tion of other more valuable trees of the campus and of sayre park it may be of interest to add that the university having a foreknowl edge of the ravages of this blight in other localities has during the past six years planted on the uni versity properties more than fifty thousand trees of the valuable north american species to take the place of those which were doomed reception to students will relate college life at le high of fifty years ago and of to-day the board of the 1917 epitome lias decided to make this year's is sue a semi-centennial edition in view of the fact that this spring the fifty-year lapse since the founding of lehigh will be celebrated a large part of the book will be given over to the older days of the uni versity the board will probably run narratives of lehigh's past life with descriptions by alumni of the university of forty or fifty years ago it is desired that those hav ing old cuts of lehigh in its early days will kindly submit them to the editors for publication ( ne of the important things add ing most to the success of a year book are photographs or drawings pertaining to college life any pic tures are acceptable that will be of interest to students or alumni there is a special need of pictures of last year's spring sports wrest ling and of the summer schools the board wishes to really epito mize university life and must have snap-shots of college happenings the cooperation of the students is a necessity and this is a way in which everyone may help those having pictures illustrative of col lege life should hand them to w s smith or w w gilmore men having artistic ability as capable sketches or designers are requested to report to w s smith art editor e taylor hall who will make suggestions and outline the kind of material desired there will be prizes for those submitting the best illustrating ma terial but the board has not come to any decision as to what these prizes will be injured players are recovering a w chenoweth who received a fractured leg in the yale-lehigh game has recently been released from the hospital and is coming along as well as can be expected d h kirkpatrick's ankle which he broke in a scrimmage in the early part of the season is rapidly healing he returned to bethlehem last friday from scranton where he has been receiving treatment halstead slightly injured his ankle again last saturday but will prob ably be back on the field in the near future freshman meet ing postponed the freshman meeting which was to be held for the election of offi cers on last friday morning had to be postponed until friday the 29th at 11 a m on account of the col lege lecture at the lehigh orphe um every freshman should be present at this meeting as the new class yell selected by the committee will be announced mercersburg men notice there will be a meeting of all mercersburg men in drown hall on thursday evening october 28 at 7.30 o'clock all mercersburg men are urged to be present last thursday evening a big church reception was held in the parlors of the first presbyterian church south bethlehem for the students of lehigh and bishop thorpe manor a short program followed in which several songs were rendered by a quintet of college students and recitations given by miss benham a teacher of bishopthorpe and by donald wynne of the university after a short address by dr chas chapin the bishopthorpe girls and the lehigh boys sang their respect ive alma maters the evening was concluded by a social hour during which refreshments were served lehigh completely outplayed muhlenberg on taylor field on saturday and won by a score of 20 to 0 the score resulted from touchdowns by keady and green and two field-goals by cahall who also kicked both goals from touch downs the playing of the brown and white warriors was mostly of high calibre except in a few instances where fumbles resulted in the loss of the ball muhlenberg was par ticularly good on the defense and while they were unable to hold the university team consistently they often forced the latter to punt twice once on their 1-yd line the allentown collegians held lehigh and took the ball on downs on the offense muhlenberg did not exhibit any strength and could gain only four first downs in the entire game lehigh's first score came in the first period when caskey from be hind muhlenberg's goal-line punt ed to his own 25-yd line cahall signalled for a free catch which en titled him to either a free try for a goal with the opposing team lined up ten yards from the ball or the privilege of putting the ball in scrimmage at the same point his kick was perfect and sailed between the goal posts for lehigh's first score shortly after the beginning of the second period maginnes inter cepted a forward pass from caskey on lehigh's 45-yd line and ran it back to muhlenberg s 25-yard line before he was downed from here the ball was advanced 10 yards by successive line attacks and keady on a 15-yd run around left end scored the first touchdown in the last period with the ball on lehigh's 40-yd line a long for ward pass from cahall to sawtelle netted 40 yards a few short gains through the line further advanced the ball and the touchdown was scored when cahall shot a pass to green who was waiting for it be hind the goal-line shortly afterward the brown and white received the ball in midfield from where an end run of 15 yards by cahall and a forward pass to the subject of first college lec turer given by charles enzian 01 mine safety tells of work of bureau of mines to safeguard lives of workmen the first of the 1915-1916 col lege lectures of lehigh university was given last friday morning by charles enzian of wilkes-barre a civil engineering and master of science graduate of the university who is alining engineer of the united states bureau of mines the lecture was delivered before a large gathering of students of the university and townspeople in the lehigh orpheum theatre mr enzian's subject was an thracite coal mining illustrated by exceptionally fine motion pic tures showing the importance and m-agnitude of the anthracite in dustry tn his introduction mr enzian told how the existence of stone coal was discovered by indian tribes of the wyoming and lacka wanna valleys many years before that region attracted the attention of white settlers he sketched briefly the development of the first mine the formation of the first company and the building of ca nals and railroads and other chang es that have been of importance to the prosperity of northeastern penn sylvania and the nation statistics were given showing the economic importance of the anthra cite mining industry during 1913 the total production of coal in the united states was 570,000,000 tons ; of this total production 91,500,000 tons were anthracite — about one sixth of the bulk the total value of all the coal mined in the country during the same year was 760 000,000 of this value anthracite represents 195,000,000 — or more than one-fourth of the total since 1807 there has been mined 7,398 000.000 tons of bituminous and 2 447,000.000 tons of anthracite on a comparative basis using the aver age value for 1913 it will be noted that anthracite represents 60 per cent of the value of all the coal mined in the united states which at the end of 1913 reached the enor mous quantity of 9.844,000.000 tons it may be of further interest to note that in 1913 which is perhaps a rep resentative year the state of penn sylvania had a total production of over 265.000,000 tons anthracite and bituminous combined or 46 per cent of the coal mined in the uni ted states it is estimated that in 1913 the united states produced 39.5 per cent of the world's pro duction of coal mr enzian described efforts now being made to safeguard the lives of the mine workers the federal bureau of mines has by investiga tions and experiments during the past five years done helpful work along these lines the miners and operators are cooperating with most gratifying results mr enzian said the pictures shown were made pos sible through the personal interest and financial assistance of the more important mining companies of the region the first of the pictures showed inspection by the fire boss of the ventilating fan and the working places im the mine later views de picted the miners entering the mine erecting props drilling and charg ing holes for blasting and loading continued on sixth page continued on second page green for 20 yards brought the ball to muhlenberg's 30-yd line le high could not gain on three tries and cahall dropped back to the 35 yd line from where he made his second drop-kick goal for lehigh cahall and maginnes were the stars besides his two drop kicks cahall made considerable gains around the ends and made four beautiful passes for an aver age of 25 yards maginnes was a consistent ground-gamier and was indirectly responsible for lehigh's first touchdown when he intercept ed a forward pass from caskey and brought the ball within striking dis tance keady's attacks on the line were good for a gain in most every case and halstead too showed up well weber was easily the stellar play er for muhlenberg and gave many a pretty exhibition of open-field running his runs around the ends whenever his team could obtain pos session of the ball were responsible for all of muhlenberg's substantial gains first half first quarter lehigh won the toss and decided to defend the west goal fleming kicked to lehigh's 15-yd line ma ginnes ran the kick back 12 yards maginnes made 4 yards through right tackle keady gained 3 yards through left guard halstead hit the line for 3 yards cahall ran around right end for 8 yards he went through center for 1 yard keady went through center for first down halstead gained 4 yards through left tackle maginnes made 3 yards through center keady went through left tackle for a gain of 3 yards and first down maginnes plunged through right guard for 9 yards lehigh fumbled but os trum recovered the ball lehigh was penalized 15 yards for holding cahall ran around right end for 2 yards incompleted forward pass cahall to green forward pass from cahall to green failed ca hall punted from midfield to muh lenberg's 5-yd line the ball rolled the balkan states prof a s cooley has arranged for a series of four lectures at the moravian seminary and college for women on the balkan states the first of which he will give on november 16th university dance the next university dance will be held on saturday evening no vember 13th in drown hall van eps orchestra will again furnish the music the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 26 1915 muhlenberg loses to lehigh 20-0 1917 epitome to be semi-centennial edition vol xxiii " anthracite coal mining allentown collegians unable to score in saturday's contest cahall shines for lehigh no 11