Brown and White

              brown and white special edition bethlehem pa saturday novehber 22 19*9 j«-wl rivalry began in 1884 lafayette holds edge by kenny rilander tomorrow afternoon ln new haven conn harvard will attempt to overthrow the ells of yale m the 86th meeting of these two schools america's second most-played football rivalry approximately 150 miles away m taylor stadium the packers will meet the leopards of lafayette for the 105 th gridiron classic between these two schools america's most played rivalry the seeds of rivalry were sown on oct 25 1884 when the leopards beat tbe packer eleven 50-0 ln easton in the early years and during world war ii the teams often mat twice m ons season and m 1891 thsy clashed on three occasions the only year m which the teams have not met on toe gridiron was 1896 when there was a conflict over a lafayette player's eligibility causing ths only rift ln the series lehigh was justified ln their decision not to play according to casper whitney noted sports authority of the day over the past 85 years there have been many memorable experiences ln the gridiron battles m 1884 richard harding davis a husky lehigh halfback who later became a sportswriter war correspondent novelist and playwright led ths packer eleven is the first battle between the two teams he not only was a major player in ths battle but also reported ths action for ths student press by mentally recording play-by-play not from a position back of the ropes but behind the rush line where i had an uninterrupted view of the field according to davis only three undergraduates had played the game before the first lehigh eleven challenged all comers and m the first match with lafayette the first university game ever played by lehigh according to davis the other men had learned what little they knew of the game ln three weeks of practice with the class elevens then we prevailed upon the college to pay 52 for eleven brown and white jerseys and we thought that what we did not know about the game was not worth learning with this idea ln mind we went down to easton and played the first of those me mor able games davis wrote 50-0 loss lehigh lost 50-0 but they did not come beck without a feeling of accomplishment a lehigh man wrote we old not win . but we gave lafayette the worst licking she ever bad m her existence and many many a sore head went back to easton that night in ths second contest a few weeks later the packers finally made it onto tte scoreboard with davis registering the touchdown but lehigh felled to control tbe overpowering leopard offense aad lost s4-4 a touchdown m those days was only worth four points it was not until oct 29 1587 that the packers finally gained their first victory it was a cold fall day m bethlehem when the fans saw two touchdowns by corbin and a safety against lafayette bring lehigh its first win 10-4 the lafayette paper blamed the loss on poor calls by the officials our team never minds defeat when it is done ln a fair game the lafayette paper said but where we have to play a team with a blindly partial referee and an umpire who ls simply a burlesque it is dis couraging longest play the longest official play m the series occured on nov 5 1898 when james ross of lehigh returned a pont 100 yards for a score playing fields were 110 yards long at the time the packers won the game 22-0 for their fourteenth win of the rivalry on nov 20 1909 lafayette surprised lehigh with the circus double forward pass of the two to a touchdown variety and beat the packers 21-0 the trick play cams late ln the game and was accomplished by having william dannehower the quarterback pass the ball to aaron crane the left tackle who was lined up 18 yards behind the line crane threw a forward pass to frank irmschler the left halfback who scored the play covered 47 yards from scrimmage ths most impressive lehigh win cams on nov si 1917 in bethlehem when the packers blasted the leopards 78-0 for tha most points scored by any lehigh's defense gangs up en colgate quarterback a similar effort will km needed te step the leopards packers aim for 68 repeat by howard frisch when lehigh s packers take the field tomorrow against ths leopards of lafayette there'll be more firsts on ths line than there were during the age of discovery coming into tms 105 th renewal of college football's most active rivalry lehigh will be shooting for its first back-to-back win streak since 1962 its first two-game sweep of lafayette since 1963 and its first season of four wins or more since 1961 . in that season lehigh was 7-2 and won the lambert cup hoping to spoil lehigh's efforts lafayette comes into taylor sta dium with a record 4-5 not too disimilar from the host s mark of 3-5-1 four of those leopard losses were to common opponents esrly m the year lafayette was dropped by rutgers 44-22 thsy lost to buck nell m the closing moments 21-20 and were defeated by gettysburg 19-10 and by colgate 14-10 lafayette's other loss was to boston university 22-14 the leopards wins came over columbia hofstra drexel and vermont meanwhile lehigh's record against common opponents is 2-1-1 the packers came up with a stunning upset midway m the season over rutgeys 17-7 . last week the gridders edged bucknell 7-3 lehigh's tie came against colgate 14-14 when the packers failed to get off the winning field goal attempt m the final 30 seconds gettysburg rallied with three touchdowns m the final five minutes to beat the brown and white 26-24 lehigh's other losses were to the citadel wittenberg pennsylvania and delaware ifs other win was a 55-7 maul of ithaca last year the pre-game story was markedly different lafayette fighting for the lambert cup came into the contest 7-2 on the other hand the visiting packers sported a 2-7 mark and were heavy underdogs but lehigh came up with an outstanding defensive effort coupled with a sub-par lafayette offensive performance to pull off the 21-6 upset tl me and again leopard quarterback ed baker threw to seeming ly open receivers only to have a lehigh defender knock the ball down at the last minute or see the ball slip through the receiver's hands for lehigh a 5-6 quarterback named gerry berger engineered two packer scores to put the visitors over the top this year both baker and berger are back and are expected to start although both have been hotly pursued by backup signal-callers rich mckay and jim baxter lehigh's baxter a 5-9 senior replaced berger m the perm game and led the squad until the second half of last week's bucknell game after a scoreless lehigh first half coach fred dunlap replaced bax ter with berger who capitalised on a fumble recovery for a score and helped preserve the 7-8 victory on the day berger led all rushers with 80 yards ln 11 attempts this week berger has led the first team m practice berger likes to work with the quarterback option m which he either keeps laterals to a trailing back cr throws on the run berger s sise has worked for and against him this season because of ms small frame and good quickness berger ls able to get away from tacklers tor sur prising yardage but throughout the season he has had trouble throw ing over onrushing linemen and has been plagued by interceptions baxter has the best arm on the club having thrown for 771 yards and six touchdowns this toll ths senior signal-caller la not rated as good a runner as berger and usually throws from tho pocket if lemgh packer defender trips up colgate quarterback steve goepel during nov i game lehigh fought the red raiders to a 14 - 14 tie see defensive page 6 sm cl arabella pag