Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-15
.LEH|GH RALLIES
FOR LAFAYETTE
Grads Plan "Huzzah Fete" in
Philadelphia Thursday-Stu-
dents Mass-Meeting Friday
DATA FAVOR MAROON TEAM

The preparations Of the American
army for the blasting Of st. Mihiel dur
ing the war have nothing on those under
way Mt LoNlgh University for the mon.
| ping mp Of 1nfayctte's football team
this week. Beat Lafayette" is the
cry THAT rings on South Mountain
Tho annual gridiron classic of thc
| Lehigh Valley will be played this Sat
urday in Taylor Stadium Mt Bcthle.
! hem.
| Way MP on top of all those rocks at
| Eaton. Pa. where they built LAFAYETTE
so you could sec it. the frenzied natives
think they have the best football team
in the country and that the Maroon and
| White will tramplC on Lchigh by score
| of about 5000.
Twelve miles down the river at Le-
high : camp they have a diffcrept idea.
If backing up the Brown and White
team and concentrated roofing has any
effect, Ichigh will be very much in the
annual ruckus Saturday.
'Propaganda" Meeting
The first propaganda barrage will be
laid down Thursday night in Philadcl-
phia. There will be monster mass
meeting, huzzah carnival and lobster
dinner with the Philadelphia Lchigh
Alumni Club acting as host. The roof
Of BOOkbinders' Restaurant is expected
to be raised in the heat of the moment.
Songs will be yodelled, cheers will
be beloved and fiery speeches in sup
port of the Lchigh team will be made.
Walter Il. Okeson. n former Brown
and White grid star. prominent
alumni association official and orator,
with all his "vim. vigor and vitality.
Is billed as the principal speaker, and
il is guaranteed that he will thoroughly
""Xpnrgp. eXpungr and exacerbatc
Lafayette" all over the place.
After winning" the game in Book
binders Thursday. the next rally will
b" held in the college gym at Bethle-
hem the following night. In this
game" Lafayette is again slated to
get the worst of it.
Coaches. old grads and stars of other
days will harangue the student body
md the rest of the rabid mob Mt this
mass meeting. which is called the
| "Iafaycttc smoker" because nobody
from Lafayette ever attended.
Snake Dance
The boys go out into the niGu. Nstcr
this rally is over, in torch-lit. snake
dancing columns to wake up the SnOoz-
ing inhabitants of bethlehem and tell
them what is going to happen to Lafay-
cite on the morrow.
After this all that remains Is TO play
the game on the regulation gridiron.
| Such a hulaballoo has been made about
Lafayette this year that the main prob
| lem in bethlehem Is to inject the idea
! into the citizrnry. the students and the
| team. that Lchigh has II chance.
But that's not very difficult for sell
dom in the long history of these Le-
htuh-L afaycttc classics has either root
| ing section contained any who have en-
tered there leaving all hope behind.
| Lafayette started the season with Its
! powerful 1920 team almost intact and
| even then n couple of veterans have
! been no>cd out by newcomers. 1t has
! the same coach and the same system.
Lehigh had fly" rockies In its hrSt
| li,p.uD this year. had new coach and
| a new system. It had to build where
| LAFAYETTE had only TO improve. The
! Brown and White also had a much
! tougher schedule than Lafayette :,
which further upset n steady climb to
pointing for the Lafayette battle.
Lafayette Unbeaten
Lafaycttc hasn't been beaten this
wear and has rolled up Il bi. total. 1t
| has met two teams which Lchigh has
pluvcd. In it's first game 1t beat Muh =
ienberg 1870 and a week ago Mullen
berg noScd out l.ehigh, a. -l3, ut the
finish Of the game. Lafayette beat
Rutgers rather late in the season. 800,
i n team which Lehigh only beat 30 in
jts second game. So Lafayette seems
10 have the margin over Lehigh by a
but on the other side line. Lei high
beat West Virginia 2l-l4, and Pitt beat
the latter 2l.13.
Iafayette beat Pitt Go, in its sec
ond game, which seems TO give the Ma
room only about a one touchdown mar
gin over Lehigh But all this has beer
forgotten. The season is success foE
oithcr I4high or Lafayette if its river
rival is beaten.
Both showed we'll in the dress re-
hoprsal Saturday. Lehigh displayed
nowcrful offensive and reversal o
form to beat Lebanon Valley Dol.
Lafayette beat Delaware 44.O, yank
ing the regulars before the hrst hal
wIS over.
Sow the two big L's' are rarin'
70 have at each other.
!