The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

(Sty BXtX^n Hwkltj (Enllwjtate PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY. Vol. XXVI. No. 8. DeLand, Florida, Friday,November 21, 1913. $1.00 per Year- DELTA DELTA DELTA. FLORIDA SECTION MEETS THIS WEEK. DeLand Will Be Filled With Sorority Girls. Local Chapter to Entertain. The Florida section of the Delta Delta Delta Fraternity will hold a jubilee meeting in this city starting with Friday and continuing until Saturday night. The main purpose in holding the convention will be to observe the silver anniversary of the fraternity which was founded at Boston University on Thanksgiving eve, 1888. Quite an extensive program has been arranged by the chapter located in this school. Friday evening a business meeting will be held, after which a chafing-dish party will occupy the attention of the members until a late hour. Saturday morning, the Alliance Chapter will hold its meeting, and in the afternoon, a reception will be given in honor of the visiting ladies. A banquet will be given Saturday evening at the Lexington, only the members and the delegates from the other chapters represented at the meeting. A number of Tri-Delta alumni of the local chapter are expected to be present at the various ceremonies and festivities. o DRYS TO HOLD MEETING THURSDAY. Thursday, at 6:15, in the Y. M. C. A. room, the local Prohibition Association will hold a rousing meeting. President Varn and his officers have prepared an excellent program and a crowded room should be the result. The Quartette will render several selections and short talks from Brass, Walker, and Jennings will serve to make the time pass pleasantly as well as profitably. o GIRLS GET NEW COURT. A new basketball court is in process of construction on the east side of the women's gymnasium. The court will be an open air one and will fill a long felt want on the part of the Woman's basketball team, FLORIDA-STETSON GAME OFF. GATORS AND GREEN AND WHITE WILL NOT BATTLE ON 21ST. News Comes This Week and Brings Disappointment to Backers of Both Teams. Gainesville, Fla., Nov. V, 1913. Prof. E. G. Baldwin, Stetson University, DeLand, Fla. Athletic Committee decides it will be impossible to play Florida- Stetson game until after Thanksgiving as it will be impossible to properly investigate charges of ineligibility against our players before that time. We cannot send official list until we secure definite ruling from Morris. We do not ask for your list until we can send our own. Signed, H. W. Cox. This telegram received last Monday gives in brief form the reason why the Florida-Stetson game was not pulled off on Friday, November 21st. To say that it is a keen disappointment to the ardent admirers of both teams is putting it very mildly, as this game was to decide the football supremacy for the State of Florida. However, the result was not totally unexpected by those who had the inside information, as trouble has been brewing for some little time, and it culminated in Monday's telegram. Some little time ago a list of players for Stetson was sent to Coach Pyle, and at the same time a list of Florida players was asked for. The Stetson management offered to play the game either under the S. I. A. A. rules or not. At the same time mention was made of the Florida players that could be "blacklisted" if the game was played under the S. I. A. A. rules. Evidently that was not taken very seriously as Coach Pyle mentioned to Mercer that we were playing Dunkle who was an ineligible man as he claimed. The Mercer game was played and contrary to the orders of the Athletic Committee Dunkle was put in the game, and of course it. was protested. Florida was ordered not to play Stetson unless they met S. I. A. A. requirements, and that all the arrangements of the game should be carried on by that association. A representative was sent to consult Mr. Morris who has charge of the S. I. A. A. for Georgia, Alabama and Florida to see if the affair could not be straightened out. The proposition was put to Mr. Colton that it meant the "blacklisting" of cither the Coach or the school, and naturally the former was chosen. It being agreed that Coach Jordan would not have anything to do with coaching the team for the Florida game, and furthermore, that we would play under the S. I. A. A. rules to the very letter. Of course it was to be expected that Florida would do the same, and as a result affidavits were filed against about five of the Florida, team, because they were not able to live up to the letter of the S. 1. A. A. When the evidence was produced and given to Mr. Morris at Macon, Ga., he instantly ordered those men not to play in the Florida- Stetson game, and that meant the breaking up of the famous Pyle machine that had been doing such successful work this season. It is indeed to be regretted that the two teams could not meet on the date set as it would have been a paying proposition for both teams, for between two and three thousand people from diffen ail part) of the State would have been on hand to see one of the best games of football that has been played here for a long while. It is hoped that the managements can get together and agree to play the game after Thanksgiving. Naturally the two schools have been keen rivals and it is hoped that the same rivalry will continue, and that this will not cause a break in athletic relations. It is assured that if the game is played after Thanksgiving that the people of Gainesville will be shown every possible courtesy while in DeLand and they will realize that the crisis that happened must inevitably come when things assumed the conditions that they have. EXCITING WEEK. LAST SEVEN DAYS FILLED WITH NEWS. Campus Gossip . Briefly Reviewed By Onlooker. Continued on Page 8 The Collegiate week commences on Wednesday morning. This fn >ni no religious scruples, bul merely because the paltry and recalci- tranl printer demands "in- i on that day. Well, last Wednesday was comparatively quiet. The fuii really began on Thursday nighl with the regular Y. M. C. A. meeting. On this occasion, the ultra-famous Y. M. C. A. Quartet had prepared by strenuous rehearsals, a mosj excellent number. The lour ambitious warblers, i. e., Peterson, Walker, Perry and Longstreet, sat expectantly on tile front row. There was a good Crowd I') sing to. And that miserable and vacillating president, X. V. Z. Lawrence, calmly refused to the nervous and excited quartet any chance to appear. Friday was an excellent day, for it was the la: t of the v and no lessons to prepare for the morrow, in the afternoon, there was an exciting football game between the CTUbs Sand the Varsity, in which contest the Varsity sadly beaten by a number ol touch downs and < . > ral drop-kicks by Speedy Bmison. in the evening a larj/e portion of the •indent body wenl down I" a SOCial at Katherine Harkness' and had a • enjoyable time. Saturday was marked by an unusually long Mandy Lynn hearsal in the A. M. and a nawful debate in the evening al the Var ity Club b< and Bly. Wi do not know whether the Eusophian' 11& had | or not. Probably the latter. Sunday was as usual the bu day of ' the good old Bible injunctions to the contrary. Breakfast al 8j00. Sunday School (we all to Liddell and Bdge I''' at 9 15 Oiurch at 11 00. Oh at 1:00. Card game ai 2:00 at 4:00. Supper at :, < ■ 5foi peoples society (h by Sned and Willis Junkin I Church at 7:30 and bed Continued on Pa§c 0