Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 15

              summary review of the contest w mccarthy and johnson score touchdowns brunner kicks field goal heard on the sidelines largest crowd ever on march field sees fiftieth classic encounter the y m c a meeting last sunday evening in drown hall was addressed by mr arthur g bugbee dartmouth 95 of phila delphia where he is assistant di rector at the central education in stitute his subject was the four roads to happiness ' ' and in opening he said that after seeing saturday's contest one might al most be inclined to think that the four roads were : to easton to the east goal post to the west goal post and back home mr bugbee said that he esteemed his own happiness as the real basis or reason for his living here on earth however there are four roads and we travel all of them at once jesus traveled them too for he grew in wisdom mentally in stature physically in favor with god spiritually ; and in favor with men socially . physical happiness comes from following the law of human exist ence and if you want it you must live by the physical laws it is not enough to be just well enough to be around men like to be fit and strong mental happiness carries with it the joy of intellectual ability or ac complishment no one has it when he is just holding his own when he is just keeping up to his class or to his job both physical and mental happiness must be a means to the end you cannot get the latter by reading a book or hearing a lecture bodily vigor comes from exercise not merely by pulling chest weights but by taking part in ath letic games this is also true for mental happiness and you must take a certain joy in doing such things to receive any benefit from them this is one of the greatest problems that faces college men it is surprising to find the number of college graduates that have not grown in mental vigor after leav ing college it is surprising to find the number of great athletics that deteriorate a great proportion of our happi ness comes from social contacts and social happiness is one wished for by all in two or three years you men will be out of college and you will have problems to face which you don't know anything about you will face problems of liquor of woman suffrage of child labor and others you cannot dodge them you can live in the finest house in bethlehem or south bethlehem but you must pass through the rest of the town you must use the bridge and be incon venienced by the smoke what will you do to better the situation ? the spiritual road to happiness should be easy but it is not we dodge talking about spiritual exist ence you may not believe in the laws of heat or gravitation but if you touch a red hot stove or let a falling brick hit you rest assured you will suffer you may not be lieve the laws that jesus promul gated if you do not you will suf fer also the laws of nature can not be violated without some one having to pay for it one man may roxtinrrcn ox sixth pace with the score standing 16-0 in favor of lehigh the revenge for last year's defeat at the hands of lafayette was paid the tumultu ous crowd on the lehigh side of march field became one mass of brown and white from the time early in the first period when w mccarthy gathered up a punt fum bled by weldon and ran twenty five yards for the initial score of the game andl until the final whis tle blew with the lehigh team still leading joy reigned supreme in the hearts of both young and old lehigh men while lafayette brave in defeat stood up with bared heads singing sorrowfully their be loved alma mater thus ended the fiftieth encounter between the two institutions and lehigh now has twenty-one games to her credit while lafayette has twenty-five four games having ended in ties the sweetest tune in the ears of the brown and white players was the whir of the forward passes traveling through the air crow ell's aerial system of attack which last year brought defeat to the upstream eleven this time was an utter failure twenty-four of the lateral passes were hurled at vari ous distances by the mighty wel don upon whom the maroon and white depended for her attack this was just what lehigh wanted and only one was successfully com pleted and this one set lafayette back for a loss of two yards all the others were either broken up or intercepted by lehigh men lafayette went down to defeat fighting hard and it was not until the last period that lehigh out continued on fifth page they smoked the pipes of victory in taylor gym last friday night when the entire student body met to prepare for the annual contest against the ancient rivals sun ny edwards and okeson were the alumni speakers and naturally reiter was on the list aside from the speakers there were a number of attractions no sooner had the opening cheers died away than an electric sign built by the men in section a was flashed in the upper northwestern corner of the game floor edwards was the first speaker he remarked that there was a big possibility of lafayette stars not in any of the line-ups this season would take part in the contest but he welcomed their entry for the de feat should be complete allowing of no alibi there is a slogan in new haven which says that princeton must not beat yale and at easton a similar one says that lehigh must be beaten and it is these cries which put into suc cessive student bodies and teams a spirit which must be overcome it is the spirit of lafayette which must be beaten he thundered and this spirit must be found among students and alumni ' ' fight lehigh ' ' he said should be the big lehigh yell for it symbol izes the one thing which is certain to bring success i don't know what there is in this game of football that keeps one at it all of the time every fall when i hear that thump of the leather my spirits begin to rise this was okeson 96 who in the nineties played on the brown and white eleven later on he acted in the capacity of coach and now is an official but he walked to the middle of the floor with character istic ease and began to recount hu morous incidents of the game it was on a corner lot when rigged out in a new suit under strict or ders to come directly home that okie got into his first game the sides were uneven and this little fellow in his best clothes was called upon to fill the vacancy at quarterback the field was muddy and the defense of the opposing team was wonderful but he drove his bunch until finally by a single touchdown they emerged the conquerors but aside from play ing quarterback he had scored that touchdown it was a great victory and the little fellow felt proud but there was a day of reckoning at home this only stimulated his interest in the game football as a game he lauded showing how your worst enemies on the gridiron are in after life the best of friends here he paused to tell of incidents in lehigh-la fayette contests of days gene by team play in winning football is necessary but that means team play by every student for it is ai student team and a student victory men must be gotten out to try-out for the team by the very force of public opinion he predicted a le high victory the trustees led by dr drink er appeared to show their sympa thy in the athletic movement and continued on sixth page game in detail both teams make seven first downs brunner outpunts rival continued on fifth page the lehigh team ran out on the field at three minutes of two o'clock led by captain maginnes the scrubs followed thirty seconds later and took their places on the bench the lafayette eleven ap peared on the dot of two the two teams lined up and ran through several short snappy signal drills and formations first quarter lehigh won the toss and elected to defend the south goal a rather sharp wind was blowing eastward across the field diamond kicked off for lafayette and halsted took the ball on his own 25-yard line he was downed after taking but two or three strides brunner and herrington lost two and five yards respectively around the ends brunner punted and the wind car ried the ball over the side line on lehigh s 35-yard line the lafayette stands cheered wildly and the situation seemed to indicate that lafayette would push over a score at the very outset of the contest at this point a sur prise was sprung by coach crow ell's decision in substituting wel don for leininger weldon started lafayette's offensive by attempting a forward pass to ellis it was grounded and the lehigh stands breathed easier another pass failed the lehigh backs and ends completely smearing the attack weldon was again playing to pass but his ends and backs were all cov ered and he was compelled to run himself he was thrown for a slight loss weldon punted out of bounds on lehigh's 15-yard line brunner starting late friday evening and all day saturday the greatest crowd that ever witnessed a lafay ette-lehigh football game poured into easton the hotel corridors were filled with the old grads back for the game and with healthy rosy-cheeked girls about one o'clock in the afternoon the crowd began to swerve toward the lafayette campus once up the precipice one could see nothing but eager football fans swarming in the gates of march field every con ceivable nook and corner of the field was jammed to its utmost ca pacity it was one of the largest crowds that ever saw the great an nual struggle and certainly the largest crowd ever on march field a stiff windj swept over the field and made things pretty un comfortable for the spectators many of the fair ones complained of cold feet and those who brought blankets along for the legs and feet were glad exercising up and down the side lines between the halves was the only remedy possi ble even the ticket speculator was on hand holding up the late person who had failed to obtain a ticket in advance prices ranged from 3 to 5 for seats in the middle sections of the field however there were pasteboards enough for the majori ty the karldon huntington and seip's were all filled with merry makers after the game and it would not be surprising if many and many a toast was drunk to le high the hotel allen was also a place of merriment as were the two continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday november 28 1916 vol xxiv the four roads to happiness big smoker closes season cheers songs smokes talks and other features arouse enthusiasm subject of talk by arthur q bugbee at y m c a meeting lafayette loses annual gridiron struggle 16-0 lehigh spirit spiritual happiness speakers emphasize that the lehigh spirit not eleven men must defeat lafayette most important road other paths are physical mental and social lehigh defeats ancient rivals before 15,000 people eastonians forward passing broken up alertness wins for brown and white no 15 lafayette 1st half 2nd half fh ce p 02 1 i co 0 f-i co +-> fh 3 p ! co i cd u 133 ©• r i o lehigh 1st half 1 2nd half si i s i & & & & % t3 g i i i m co tfi h number of kickoffs average distance kickoffs yards first downs lost ball on downs number of punts average distance of punts yards punts blocked forward passes attempted forward passes grounded forward passes intercepted forward passes completed distance gained by for ward passes yards penalties yards 2 34 2 1 3 35 0 6 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 28 32 0 7 0 1 3 12 32 38 1 1 4 24 3 18 1 5 number of kickoffs average distance kickoffs yards first downs 0 0 0 0 1 50 0 i 1 i 0 i 50 0 3 2 0 0 2 1 4 | 7 0 0 lost ball on downs 0 0 1 i 1 3 40 3 45 number of punts average distance of punts yards 7 2 3 2 j 14 42 35 0 48 39 41 0 8 0 6 punts blocked forward passes attempted forward passes grounded 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 7 3 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 forward passes intercepted forward passes completed distance grained by for ward passes yards penalties yards 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 l ■ 12 i 12 0 2 30 0 5 35 0 0 1 0 15 15 0 4 0 , 4 2 5 1 4 1 1 1 2 0 1 9 16 fumbles flumbles recovered field goals attempted field goals failing field goals scoring touchdowns goals from touchdowns . . points scored 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 u 0 5 0 | 5 fumbles fumbles recovered field goals attempted .... 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 | 0 0 2 i 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 field goals failing field goals scoring 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 touchdowns 0 0 0 o i o o i o goals from touchdowns points scored 1 0 0 0 0 7 0 0