Brown and White Vol. 99 no. 22

              the 127th battle between lehigh and lafayette will not be remembered as much for the game as for the ensuing riot which followed most people witnessing the display of violence and mayhem on the football field after the game will have these vivid memories etched into their minds the crowd in the stands seemed to be more sober this year admission was denied after 2 p.m and burns security guards patrolled the isles on the look-out for rowdy spectators as lehigh went on to beat lafayette rolls of toilet paper streamed through the air before the game ended maintenance crews hur riedly started bringing the teams benches and orange endzone markers to safety a hush came over the crowd there wasn't the typical charge for the posts a total of 65 police officers from bethlehem and 15 from lehigh surrounded the new metal goalposts wait ing for anyone attempting to get near them the officers were divided into two groups of 40 in order to protect the north and south posts the football teams met in the center of the field and were congratulating each other when a small crowd from the lafayette side of the stadium broke onto the field soon small groups from all portions of the stadium ran onto the field the crowd was unusually silent as a growing number of people gathered in the middle of the field many of the spectators remained in the stands to watch the action unfold for the first time lehigh and lafayette students stood together and approached the south goalpost as one group a thick air of tension filled the arena as the crowd closed in the only thing standing between the posts and the crowd was the police the spectators in the stands cheered them to get the posts chanting post post post the police stood their ground until a person reached down to grab the only weapon available the muddy turf the rest of the frustrated crowd followed suit and began to hurl bits of earth at the police the police showered with grass and dirt could find no shelter on the open field and began to shrink back when the crowd advanced the police drew their mace and began to spray the closing ranks the crowd scat tered except for those writhing on the ground in agony from the mace in their eyes a gasp of amazement swept over the spectators in the stands shouts of disapproval came as police with nightsticks drawn sprayed members of the crowd there was the appearance of a battlefield as stricken students fell to the ground clutching their eyes and screaming the violence which had traditionally been student against student was now student against police with every person tackled on the field by police the the brown and white vol 99 n0.22 battlefield tuesday november 26 1991 lehigh university lehigh-lafayette goalpost tradition ends with crowd police all-out brawl lehigh-lafayette coverage * future of lehigh-lafayette game page 2 vandals spraypaint likins house page 4 post-game violence page 5 • photo spread page 12-13 game coverage page 24 b&w photo by jim kelley police handcuff a student during the violence following saturday's lehigh-lafayette game by mitchell drake brown and white news editor see violence page 3