Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-22
BY SANDY McNIBLICK


hecka the other entry is wiped off the
boards in this football mad town. Wy
socki and Lehccka square off on con
trary teams today.
Lehigh meets Lafayette. That's all.
But it's enough up here.
Taylor Stadium, where the classic
will be tumbled on the turf at , o'clock,
was built to hold 10000 folks. They
are looking it over this morning to see
how they can jam 20, 900 in there.
The giant Bessemers of the steel
works here have died down noticeably
today. 1t looks like each and every
one Of the workers will be in the stands
when the whistle blows for the clinch.
Lafayette has the edge in weight, Le
high in speed. Both rival Eehigh valley
colleges have the best team in years.
Early this morning machineloads of
fans began to stream into this South
Mountain town aud park at the curbs
along the quaint Moravian streets.
Trains disgorged alumni, their families,
an6 other just plain lovers of a great
battle by the hundreds all morning. All
records for attendance are expected to
be broken when the Big Maroon team of
Easton. the team that beat Cornell
worse that Dartmouth and held Prince
ton, paws the sod against the Brown
and White of Lehigh.
"Who will wing" There is no other
subject of conversation up here.
Street coruer orators are slipping
the dope all along the line to the field.
"Its a cinch, " chortled one bird from
behind IA snappy set of whiskers.
"Wysockili knock Lafayette's heavy
line for goal in the first period, and
then where'll the Easton crowd be?
Lehigh'll run all around EN-
Where do you get that noise Oft Off
demanded Lafayette rooter and citi-
zen of Easton. ''Lehigh'll never get
started against that weight. And we've
got the speed, too"
Money was then displayed, and ev-
crybody was happy.
Old grads were tanning over the
sames of the past and wrangled ali
morning over today's outcome in the
hotels, on the streets, on the campus and
mt fraternity houses, every one of which
was filled to overfiowing with those
coming to town for the annual grid bat %
tie. The colors of the ancient rivals
are everywhere displayed.
Both teams are in prime shape. Harry
Rote and Captain Mcdonald, of lie
high, will both likely get into the game,
though neither is likely to start it..
Lafayette, its team and its entire
student body blew into town early.
Coach Jock Sutherland was calm and
confident that the Maroon was going
TO show something.
He had his Lafayette warriors at
Northampton Country Club yesterday III
n little workout on the golf fairwaK
and peaceful sleep last night, away
from the madding throng. Bag and
baggage they bundled up to the teld
bouea hare carly this morning,
Coach Ready, of Lehigh, would make
no predictions this morning. but lnti-
mated he had no fear that his Brown
and White workmen would not stack
up to the test. ,,
mot yet--Lafayette. :" is the battle
cry of Lehigh fans today. =,
There have been some freak football
bets this year. but the brown derby
goes TO the resident of South Bethle
hem who today placed his Stutz road
ster against a baby carriage belonging
to native of Easton that Lehigl
would beat Lafayette. This has been
the only freak bet thus far.
Quite a bit of money has, been wag
cred by the various fraternities.
Betting is fifty fifty on the game, and
focks of it is being set out. A few
rabid Easton fans we're tearing around
with slight odds of to 4 to offer or
the heavy Lafayette squad. rms was
snapped up eagerly by Lehigh men
who. in turn, we're willing to bet the
same on the Brown and White when
Easton money was slow in showing.
Football classics, in the books of. this
town, are divided into no parts. After
the Lehigh Lafayette game there are
no classics in the Lehigh Valley way OF
thinking. Both teams are set for sterr
conflict. So is the town.
Never before in its history has there
been so much lust for battle as was evi-
denced on every side here today.
Lehigh held roaring smoker last
night in it's great gym, packed equally
with yipping students and folks of the
town. Coaches. alumni and men of th'
team made confident speeches. and the
whole pack lined up in wild, joyous
snake dance through the town, accord
ing to the ancient custom. yodelinl
through the streets of the BethlehemS
TO show the townsfolk that big times
are on.
Lafayette did the same for Easton.
1t has always been so. The annual clasl
is unique between the two neighborinl
Lehigh river colleges.
Twelve miles apart, both nearly al
ways turn out exceptionally strong
teams. The whole schedule previous tC
the great conflict is regarded only as
the preliminary to the big battle al
the finish. Both teams are pointed
for this game alone. 1t means the
coronation as gridiron king of the Lc-
high valley. All season up here, where
furnaces of the steel plants crimson the
sky dimming the very stars above the
city of Bethlehem, they ask themselves
only one question, "Will Lehigh VIM
And the same goes for Lafayette.
It is the Easton towns year. Things
seem to go in cycles. or at least since
1907. Lehigh stopped Lafayette il
1908, then Easton took a trio. Le-
high then won in 1912, '13 and IA
Lehigh had team SO superior, OF
paper, in 1915 that there wasn't GO
ing to be anything to it. But that
was the year when Lafayette swampe(
the hopes of the South Bethlemitel
with a dull and sickening bump, 80
After that the Maroon trailed for three
years and now Lafayette figures it'i
time to come back.
The two teams first met in 1884 The!
used to play two and three times {
season to make il good. Lafayette hai
won twenty five games and Lehigl
twenty our. The Brown and White il
entered today to even the score.