Stetson Collegiate

THE ROMANCERS, UNIVERSITY AUDITORjUM, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 8:15 P. M. STETSON COLLEGIATE WEEKLY For and by the Students of Stetson. VOLUME 31, NO. 9 J. B. STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1922 $2.00 PER YEAR SOUTHERN LOSES TO HATTERS 32 TO 7 GAME VERY SLOW AND LACKING IN FIGHT Stetson in the second game this season with Southern won for the second time in a slow game. Stetson outclassed the Southern players in every branch of the game, but did not show nearly as much football as should have been shown. The line was not holding with its accustomed strength and the hard luck streak of last Saturday followed the Hatters through the game. Breaking loose for end runs which were the principal gainers for the Hatters, and for short line plunges which netted a good gain each time. Southern's attempt to gain over the line was fruitless and end runs proved the same, while passing gave them several good gains. An intercepted pass in the last quarter with the Hatter scrub team in and' a run for eighty- two yards gave the Southerners a touchdown and the goal was kicked. Sanders was the interceptor. Bowen's playing Saturday was supreme, he making good gains through the line and around end. Morgan showed his same ability to make substantial gains. Cunningham and Moritz both showed speed and a lot of broken field running ability. Stetson's arial attack failed to materialize, only two passes being complete while a number of them were incomplete, especially in the last quarter. In the Palatka game the compilations of a Palatka reporter -showed that fifteen passes were completed by Stetson. The end runs developed in the second quarter and were good till the end. Line plunges "were used with good effect, gaining from two to four yards, average. fumble returned four yards. First quarter over. Stetson 13, Southern 0. Second Quarter Morgan took two yards over line. Stetson off side, penalized'five yards. A pass was completed gaining fifteen yards, but Stetson was off side and penalized five yards from point of initial pass. Cunningham took the ball and made the prettiest end run of the day, netting twenty-four yards around right end. Moritz gained three yards on end run. Bowen made nine yards around end. Moritz gained five yards around end. Stetson failed to gain in a line buck. Bowen gained four yards around end. A pass netting twenty yards and a touchdown was completed. Morgan failed to kick goal. Stetson 19, Southern 0. Morgan kicked to Southern, who returned 12 yards. Southern got three yards off tackle. Southern ran the ball one yard over the line, followed by two yards over the line. Southern off side and penalized five yards. Stetson's ball. Bowen pushed through for five yards over tackle. Morgan getting four over the same tackle, followed by three more. A pass was incomplete. A second pass was incomplete. Stetson penalized five yards. Placement kick failed. Southern's ball. Southern made four yards on a fake line plunge. Southern repeated for one yard over the line. Stetson penalized. Half up. Quarter up. Stetson-19 Southern 0. Second Half, Third Quarter Tribble and Cunningham return to GIRLS' BASKETBALL TEAM PROGRESSES. HARD SCRIMMAGES AND PRACTICES The Eulalians, our girls' basketball team, is having some hard work- j outs nightly in the Gym and seem to have the pep and go of former years laid in the shade. Team work and co-operation are large parts of the lessons being taught. The girls have never had such wonderful chances as this year. Better material is on the floor and possibilities are high. Scrimmage and practice is held every night and the girls have rapidly developed into expert players. The girls' basketball team, is one of the big departments in our athletics. FAMOUS FRESHMEN-SOPHOMORE COLOR SCRAP HELD ON TUESDAY Freshmen Claim Victory. Sophomores Claim Battle Unfair. The Hatter offense was very good as I the lineup. Morgan kicked to South- a whole and worked very well. The ern who returned three yards. An defense was not so good although no attempted pass failed. Southern grains of great value were made by j made no gain over the line. South- the Southerners. The line up is: Stetson Goofus R. E. Schubiger R. T. .. Hardin R. G E. Norton Gunby K C Crowley Tribble L. G Flood Layton L. T Rhodes Scott L. E Lott Bowen Q. B Sanders Moritz R. H. B Lester Cunningham .... L. H. B Kibler Morgan F. B BELL Refree, Hamilton, Springfield A. C. Umpire, Dowling, Illinois. Timekeeper, Miller, Stetson. Linesman, Gilliland, Ohio-Stetson. Quarters .12-12—12-12. Substitutions: Stetson—Runyan for Tribble; W. Gunby for Cunningham. The scrub team for the first team excepting Bowen and Morgan. Morgan replaced by King. " Stetson won the toss and elected to receive at the east goal. Crowley kicked to Gunby who returned five yards. Moritz 2 yards on end run. Morgan twenty yards on end run to the left. Moritz 2 yards on right end run. Cunningham three yards off tackle. Bowen three yards on end run. Southern took over the ball on down. Southern gets no gain on line buck. Southern fumbled and Bowen recovered. Morgan got three yards off tackle. Morgan got three yards on left end run. Moritz took nine yards over end. Cunningham took four more over the same end. Bowen goes eight yards over left end for touchdown. Morgan drop kicked for point. Stetson 7, Southern 0. Morgan k:cked to Southern who fumbled on their vforty-two yard line, Stetson recovering. Morgan got three yards on a fake play. Moritz took six yards on end run. Morgan got eighteen yards on end run. Stetson penalized fifteen yards for blocking with arms. Southern was also penalized five yards for being off side. Cunningham ran the ball two yards further into Southern ground followed by nine yards by Moritz. Moritz again carried the ball, making two yards on line plunge. Morgan carried the ball over around left end. Morgan failed to kick goal, being rushed by Southeri men. Stetson 13, Southern 0. Morgan kicked to Southern who returned eight yards. Southern completed a pass netting eight yards over center. Southern gained three yards over left tackle. Southern got one yard over right tackle. A pass was incomplete. Southern made no gain in attempted end run. Southern punted out and Cunningham on a ern forced to punt out and Bowen returned no yards. Bowen made Southern I three yards around x-ight end. Stet- Cole son penalized for off side. Morgan C. Norton | ran the ball around end nine yards. Cunningham carrying it around for 12 more. Bowen netted two yards through the line. Morgan repeating for six yards. Stetson two yards on fake play. Moritz gained sixteen yards around right end. Cunningham gaining twelve more on the same end, for a touchdown. Morgan kicked goal. Stetson 26, Southern 0. Morgan kicked to Southern who returned no yards. Southern pass incomplete. Southern made no gain through the line. Southern attempted to force through the line again, but failed to gain. Stetson's ball. A pass was incomplete. Moritz ran around end for a gain of eighteen yards. A pass was incomplete. Bowen gained five yards on end run. Pass was incomplete. Morgan took the ball arouud end for a gain of ten yards. Cunningham made no gain through the line. Moritz went around end for three yards. Bowen took four more around end. Morgan made no gain around end. Southern's ball and Southern kicked out to Cunningham who did not return. Second team went in at end of third quarter. Bowen and Morgan remaining in the line up. Stetson's ball. Morgan gained eleven yards on right end run. Riette took the ball over through tackle. Stetson failed to kick goal. Stetson 32, Southern 0. Gunby kicked to Southern who returned twenty yards. Southern gained three yards on an end run. Southern fumbled and Stetson recovered. A forward pass was incomplete. A second pass on a play was intercepted by Southern. Southern pass was incomplete. A second try was also incomplete. Southern punted out and Bowen returned thirty yards. Guiiby gaining four yards on an end run. Riette made twenty yards on end run. Stetson penalized for off side. Stetson attempted to pass but the pass was intercepted by Sanders, who ran down the field eighty-two yards for a touchdown. Stetson offside but gain taken by Southern. Southern kicked goal. Stetson 32, Southern 7. Stetson received and Bowen returned thirty yards. A pass was incomplete. A second try was also incomplete. Bowen tore off four yards around end. Gunby punted out thirty-five yards. A Southern pass was incomplete. Time, game up. Stetson 32, Southern 7. Stetson clearly had the Southerners outclassed during the game as is shown by the play by play section. Stetson gained at will around end and made a number of good line plunges. Southern's defense was not so good as Stetson's. In twentjr-four downs Southern made twenty yards in total, through the line and on end runs. Southern made one first down. Three passes were completed by them for a net gain of sixteen yards. So that in twenty-four downs thirty- six yards were made. Returning the ball in total, intercepted pass, eighty-two yards and four yards, from punt, twenty-seven yards. From kickoff a total of thirty-four yards. Southern's inability to gain inability to gain in straight football except through three passes, was the cause of her defeat, as Stetson's inability to complete passes was the cause of the meager score. Stetson's interefence was working as perfectly as ever and some beautiful runs were made with good pains. The line plunges did not show such great net results although the gain Was as good as could have been wanted. From one to four yards is a good line plunge gain. It can be seen from the record that the line plunges were nettinjr from fc-wo to four and even six yards. The Hatters will have to develope their line before the Rollins game. With ten days of rough and hard work ahead the Hatters should be in best shape and ready for any line or backfield. The Rollins game will be the classic of the season. We don't know what Rollins has, nor do we care. If it was any college else it would make no more difference, because intensive work is to be given and some real football be taught to the Hatters. All Stetson students are invited, or requested to be present in Orlando on Thanksgivin Day. All should be forced to be there but that is a rather hard thing to do. It should be-the desire of each Stetsonite to be there. Each one should have enough spirit to be there in full color. We believe that Stetson will be there one hundred per cent strong. Stetson must defeat Rollins this year. Any one knowing the feeling existing between the two schools will readily grasp the real sensibility in our statement that we must win. Tuesday morning, when the final bell sounded for chapel not a Freshman could be found in his seat. Upon investigation it was discovered that 'they had cut all classes the first period. It was not difficult for the Sophomores to understand why they were absent. Dame Rumor had it that this was to be the day for the /amous Freshmen-Sophomore color scrap, and they had come to chapel attired in appropriate costume. Immediately following chapel, an attack was made on the freshmen by the sophomores. It has been the custom for the freshmen to wear their colors on them but this class was wearing them in them. Within a very few minutes,after the attack every freshman was down, being Covered by a sophomore. In a few minutes the story was reversed— and so the battle raged, first one side slightly in the best light and then the other. Finally the sophomores reasoned within themselves that it was useless to struggle longer—in just digging around in the dirt. The two upper class presidents were called into consultation, but they refused to agree with either the contention of the sophomores that the fight was unfair or with the freshmen that their tactics were legal. The freshmen and the sophomores must decide themselves about the fight, and the fight ended with both sides still contending that they were right. It will probably always be a debated question as to the outcome of this fight. The sophomores and a large number of the older students maintain that the fight was absolutely unfair, while the freshmen and other students -who would na-turally thiip with the . x-tits contend that the fight was simply a result of new ideas in the heads of their classmen. Thus the fight was conducted and ended with a big question mark. X TALKING TO THE REFEREE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL WEEK AT JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY Stetson has shown some real spirit this year. Her student body has never failed to stick right by the teams. Her student body has never failed to cheer the boys up when in distress or when a good play was made. Nothing can be asked of the students better than the spirit already shown. But do not question any official's decision. Never question his decision because it is not good sport- manship, it is not real and true sport- manship. The official's decision is to be accepted by both sides as law and for a home team's supporters to jeer or question a decision is not true ethics. It is a cowardly thing to do. It is not believable that any Stetsonite will ever question or back- talk to an official. HELLO, STETSON! Last Saturday my wife, my son and his wife and were all on the side-line at the football game watching the play and rooting for our tp-.im. The boys did well but they can do better. This very friendly critism. First, they don't avail themselves of the advantage they have when the ball is in their hands. Don't forget that the game is in your control, when you have the ball. You did net use to advantage your initiative at such times. You gave your opponents too much time to rally and compose themselves before you started the next play. Be aggressive, drive the game, play them off their feet, give them no rest. You will rattle and dazzle and disconcert them by so doing. They haven't time to get together. This you did not do at any time in the game and you had the power to do it when ever you had the ball. After every scrimmage you seemed to stop and think about it as though you don t know What to do next. Second, tighten up your game. Close up all the cracks. The touchdown made against you last Saturday was an accident, growing out of your failure to cover every man at all times. Some of you thought the ball was dead. You cannot take a thing like that for granted. I wish to say to the whole college every body is praising you for your fine Stetson spirit, for the note of optimism and good fellowship that is struck every where about the University. The alumni are sending me letters congratulating the University on the good order. The people of DeLand also speak to me repeatedly about it. And you students yourselves in many instances have spoken to me about it. Fine' Let the good work go on. As the year advances, a disposition may crop out to let dewn the bars. But don't do that. He that con- tinueth unto the end, the same shall get there. May I suggest to the students that they furnish their editors with news notes, personals, reports of class doings, fraternity meetings, receptions and social gatherings. The boys tell me that that is what they read the first thing as soon as the paper comes out. They also tell me that they wish the editors would put more of that kind of matter in. Everyone can help. The editors are good men and they are giving us a good paper. The whole point is that they will give us even a better paper if we turn in and assist them. LINCOLN HULLEY. DR. LINCOLN HULLEY, PRESIDENT JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY WRITES EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE SUN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON "AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK AT STETSON. A call has come from the National Educational Association, under the auspices of the Federal Government, to designate December 3-9 as American Educational Week. Stetson University is always glad to cooperate in a movement of this sort. Our country faces a number of big problems in the field of education; namely illiteracy, physical education, Americanization and inequality of educational opportunities. Will the reader please stop and review that last sentence and the significance of the last four phrases— illiteracy, physical education, Americanization and inequality of educational opportunities. Every parent in DeLand is interested in the welfare of his child. The mother is ambitious that her child shall have a chance. It was a terrible revelation to the fathers and mothers in America when it was brought out by the war that they have been slack in their duties towards their children. Illiteracy There is vast and dense illiteracy in the United States. Think of it. There are millions of white people in this country who cannot read or write. That is usually the test of illiteracy. It is not a test of native ability, but it is of illiterate people who can not write or read. They have not gotten hold of the key that opens the door of knowledge. Many of these millions of illiterates are native born and the south eastern part of the United States is the worst in the whole country in respect to education. Things are being gradually improved, but at the rate we have been going the last ten years it will be a century before we all together remove illiteracy. The effectiveness of a democracy depends on its intelligence. "Where Sm-.m.••:,nc.. Ilu'ivcs. upproKnion thrives. Knowledge alone enables the people to choose their way aright, to cast their votes for right measures and men. The cure for ignorance is the school. When our army was made it was found by the army test we had four times the illiteracy given us by the Federal census and yet the army tests were not very high. The right to vote ought to be an incentive for every man with red blood in him to learn to read and write, and to acquaint himself with the problems of the voter. The problems of illiteracy have to do more with our native born Americans than with the foreign born. Our boosted common school, the slogan of a free school is a free state, have not delivered us from present conditions- Physical Efficiency Our physical efficiency is a second big problem in American life. Physical efficiency has nothing to do with illiteracy. When the men from twenty to thirty presented themselves for war service almost one-third of them were rejected because of physical disabilities. These ranged all the way from syphilis to idiocy. We lost in the war 249,000 men. In other words physical disability struck down seven times as many men as war casualties did. Physical defects that unfit a man for war unfit him to a large extent for the battles of life. Such people are liabilities and not assets to your community. Can we think rightly of this tremendous biological fact that one in every four of our own men are unqualified. Surely American democracy is not what it ought to be till it counts the service of every man in the nation able bodied. The able bodied men are carrying a big load in having piled on their backs the physical unfitness of a lot of others who claim their rights and benefits under democracy and yet contribute little or nothing to its efficiency. The nation should have full man power, so- far-as each difficulty is in control of the individual, and the nature of it ought to be rectified. Much of it can be rectified. Think of a nation besotted with bad blood vessels, with weak hearts, diseased bones and joints, defective eyes, tuberculosis of the lungs, defects in height and weight, ruptures, idiocies and euro- tic conditions of the nerves, deafness, bad teeth, flat feet, exzema and many other kinds of skin diseases. This poison is being poured into the body of the nation. The nation should react and lay down rules of health and exercise. It has a right to do this. It has a right to interfere. Personal liberty cannot be claimed when things thrive destructive to other people. Let us have larger dividends in improved morale and health. Americanization The Americanization problem is another big problem. We have in this country over 36,000,000 people who are foreign born or of foreign or mixed parentage. This means that within our borders one-third of our people are alien residents to some extent. They are unfamiliar in many instances with American laws, lan guages, customs, theories, ideals and practices. They have come to this country from lands where anarchy and nihilism thrive, with socialism and monarchical institutions. They must be assimilated or our American ideals are gone. We have boasted that our government is better than any other on earth. Then let us keep it so. In order to do that, we must teach others to respect the constitution and the laws of the land. We must do more than that for customs and ideals will make America as much as laws do. We are admitting hundreds of thousands of foreigners and strangers, many of them hostile, hundreds of thousands of them every year. They are deluging us. A million a year in fifty years means fifty million; half the entire population of the United States. Thus like the migration of the huns, unless checked, it will be worse than the scourge of Attila. The Teutonic invasions of the Roman Empire destroyed it. These invasions were gradual, subtle and prolonged during five hundred years, but their work was deadly. America is being destroyed by continental lawlessness. We get the worst elements, as a rule, the failures of Europe. In addition to these foreigners there are now also a large number of native born who are alien in heart and soul to our American institutions. The writer is not alluding to Ku Klux organizations. These latter are not likely to be permanent in America. They have come up like Jonah's goard and if I don't miss my guess disappear about as fast. But here in America we have many citizens infected with socialistic and * destructive^ theories of government. They must be Americanized. It seems like a paradox to say that America should be Americanized, but it is true. There are many large capitalists who need to be Americanized. There are vast numbers of laboring people who need to be Americanized and they all should be. When they are there will he a larger altruism, more content- I ment, and more efficiency among our | toilers and employers. ^^H Inequality of Opportunity The fourth consideration for the thoughtful is the inequality of educational opportunities. It is a worthy ideal that all the people should have an opportunity for an education through, at least, the grades of the common school. It is not practicable that everybody obtain a college education. It is not practicable that all obtain a high school education. But we who are in a position to spread the benefits of human knowledge and cultural development should strive to put an educational opportunity within the reach of all who are normally located. If people choose an insolation that bars them from the practical benefits of the common school system they must suffer the consequences. But all such should have the chance to learn to read and write. Here in Florida our compulsory school laws, operative in every county, over every single foot of territory within our state, insures this equality of opportunity, if the officers of the law are supported in doing their duty. I submit these considerations to the thoughtful people of this community. Are we paying a large enough school tax? Maybe we are, I merely raise the question. I would personally like to see it higher. Is our school term sufficiently long? I hear that we are talking of cutting our high school year. Do we furnish enough subjects of instruction? I hear that there is some talk of dropping whole departments, in other counties if not in ours. This will not be done, it is sure, if our tax rate is high enough and current expenses low enough and our income large enough to prevent it. Are our teachers sufficiently trained, our examinations and tests sufficiently high? How many teachers in this state are over twenty years of age? How many of them have had more than a common school or a high school education? How many one room schools have we left in the state of Florida? Does this penalize the teacher, the child and the community? And now what about the construction of our school buildings? Is the heat right and the ventilation, the cleanliness, and the purity of the water? Is there a water pail and a common cup and a common towel or do children pass skin diseases from one to the other? What of the toilets and desks? Are they con- fortable, properly designed and is there a play ground and is the building well kept? For one I am in complete sympathy with our school authorities, the superintendent, the county and city boards, the teachers in every grade, and I respectfully urge that all our citizens agitate, in private conversation, in an honorable and helpful way, the whole subject of improvement in school conditions here in DeLand and in Volusia County. We have as little to complain of as anywhere, and I am not complaining of anything, but we can help conditions throughout the state. X Old winter makes quite a few detours, but he finally lands at the place he started for.