The Stetson Weekly Collegiate

GO TO STEED'S FOR SHOES SJIjr Btttmn W?M# (Knlbgiafo Published by the Students of Johri B. Stetson University. HAVE YOUR SUITS MADE TO ORDER Cleaned and Pressed AT STEED'S VOL. XXVII. DELAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1914. NUMBER 3. AMONG THE FRATERNITIES SIGMA NU BEGINS SOCIAL SEASON WITH OPEN HOUSE. STETSON VS. KINGS COLLEGE. First Football Team Ever Developed Under S. I. A. A. Rules at Stetson Puts Up Splendid Game. Phi Psi and Phi Kappa Boys are Active in Student Organizations. The Sigma Nu boys held the initial fraternity social event last Saturday forenoon in the form of open house. Many of the students, members of the faculty, and the city's representative people were j delightfully entertained. Sigma Nu parties have always been events pleasurably anticipat-! ed, and if the open house party | this year is a criterion the boys ' will continue to hold the Sigs' I name in its usual place as splendid hosts. The absence of petrified formality, the hearty welcome for all Stetson students, and the evidence of good-fellowship are things always characteristic of Sigma Nu men. SCORE: STETSON 0, KINGS COLLEGE 7, TOUCHDOWN ON A FUMBLED FORWARD PASS. LIDDELL AND SHERMAN STAR. Things are active around the Phi Kappa Delta chapter. Ben M. Hulley and John D. Beatty, who graduated from the Academy last vear. rereiv<H their g^+- joCrT.pp cc ti nesota Avenue. Bro. Frank W. Cullen, of last year's law class, who is now practicing in Orlando, visited DeLand Sunday. Bros. Clarence Mahoney and Ed Lane of Sanford, former students, were welcomed at the house Sunday. The first game of the season has been played, and although Stetson lost, yet we feel that the boys put up a good fight, and that Coach Campbell should be congratulated upon the showing that the team made. The King's College team had played three games before they came here and that was a great help to them. They had their formations down in good shape and all the players were hardened and in the best of shape. There is much discusion as to the legality of the touchdown which Kings made. The forward pass made by a King's back, was fumbled by one of their ends, and Haskins of our team just touched the ball and deflected to another King's player who was close to the goal line and crossed it easily for a touchdown. If this is illegal then Tuesday night of last week the Phi Kappa Delta boys gathered in their house to join in the annual celebration, tho' always a surprise, of the birthday of their Grand Master, D. J, Blocker. Having formed themselves into a line in the chapter room, they awaited Uncle Dan's arrival. Escorted by the President S. T' Wallbank and ex-Pres. C. V. Farriss, Uncle Dan passed down the long receiving line. This ceremony over all fell heartily to the foods provided. These being joyfully disposed of the fellows pushed back their chairs and listened to speeches by Uncle Dan, several of the mem" bers and some of the visitors. The sincere laughter which pealed forth truly indicates how everyone enjoyed the occasion. After several rollicking fraternal songs the crowd dispersed to await the thirteenth of October, nineteen hundred and fifteen. o Professor Smith had the members of his Calculus class out to his home on Tuesday night for a chicken dinner. The boys report that they had a swell time and we can easily believe them. Vivian Selter wishes to inquire why Professor Smith did not think of some such feed as that last year! Mr. John Padgett has returned to school and is taking work in the College of Technology. Padgett's presence is most pleasing to Coach Campbell. hitting their line for repeated gains. During the entire first half the ball was in King's territory and several times very near their goal. In the second half, Haskins took Hodgden's place at full-back, Tribble took Curran's end and Lourcey replaced Farris. The King s team braced in the third quarter and pushed the ball so near Stetson's goal line that the forward pass which is disputed as illegal was put over for the only score of the game. Liddell and Sherman were the shining lights for Stetson. Our sturdy captain was called for many runs and almost invariably made his distance. On one or two occasions he got away for fifteen or twenty yards around King's end. Sherman played a splendid game at right end and was responsible for throwing the King's men for losses on several plays. Very few gains were made around his end. Lourcey played his first game of football and covered himself with glory by getting loose for a thirty yard run around King's right end. Haskins picked up a bad pass and got off a punt under the nose of two King's men and then got the man who caught his kick. Tubby Carson was a strong man in the line stopping many line bucks in great style. Tribble played end in good shape during his half in the game, and Fa ris was strong at right half. John Padgett, our mighty tackle, had had but two practices with the team for he has just returned to school. But John played the same game that secured him a position on the Varsity when it was the best in the history of the college. He made some fine runs and was a tower of strength in the line. Merrit showed good headwork in the running of his plays. I Altogether it was a good game and even if we did lose, Our team made a very satisfactory showing. They had had no j. preliminary games at all, and several of the players have only been out for a week or so. Coach Cfimpbell has done splendid work ai|d the whole student body is back 0f him. We I believe that he will develop a very fine eleven and we are all ready I to leave matters in jhis hands. I Credit for the good Work of the j Varsity is due largely to the brave fellows who play on the Scrubs. It takes a good heart!' to play on the second team and!■ shows the best of spirits. We tfeke off our 1 hats to the Scrubs. Tomorrow we meet Southern College on the local glidiron. We understand that Southern has a bunch of ringers on their squad and this is to be deplbred. However, our boys will grife them the game of their lives anQ that is all that can be asked. This game with Kiiigs College is significant in that Stetson played a strictly S. I. A. A. team. There was not a man on the '- t-M- a bona fide ense of the a man who rectly or financial (is a step in the right direction. It will take a couple of years perhaps to build up a winning team but when it is done, we will all be proud of the achievement. The students will support the football proposition when they know that every man has a fair show to make the Varsity. We are proud now of our eleven. They played a clean game, and fought bitterly to the blow of the referee whistle. They will win next time. The line-up was as follows: Right end—Sherman. Right tackle—Padgett. Right guard—Walker. Center—Longstreet. Left guard—Carson. Left tackle—Beatty. Left end—Curran. Quarter-back—Merri tt. Let half—Liddell. Full-back—Hodgden. Right half—Farris. Tribble for Curran; Haskins for Hodgden; Lourcey for Farris. There was not as good crowd out to see the game as should have been there. The expense of bringing a team from Tennesse down here is great and the Athletic Association needs all of the support it can get. The students were not all out. The best way to show [your college spirit is to come out to the games and root for the team. Good cheering from the side-lines will help the boys who are playing and is indicative of the kind of Stetson spirit which has been always in evidence here. The fellows had not practiced enough on the cheers and yells. It is hoped that they will all get together before the next game and show us some consistent cheering. The work last Monday was largely extemporaneous, but it was a whole lot better than nothing. We are glad that the boys did as well as j they could under the circumstances. The coach of the Kings College team paid a tribute to the clean game which the Stetson team played He said that he had heard that Stetson was the dirtiest team in the South and he was glad to be able to say that that was an absolute falsehood and that he had never played a cleaner bunch of fellows in his life. The various players of the visiting team all expressed their appreciation of the clean game of our boys. We are glad to hear this. The Kings College eleven played a straight jgame too and we were glad to meet them in the noble game of football. We are unable to imagine where Stetson ever got the reputation of playing rough ball. But certainly Kings College found our men to be gentlemen and so far as we know, other teams that we have played in past years have been equally well satisfied. After all, it is ever so much better to keep your mouth shut on the field and to refrain from ragging your opponents. And certainly no gentleman will e er intentionally play foul. The game on Monday was played clean from the start to the finish and it was a well fought one too. Games SOME ANNALS OF STETS0NJ1IST0RY TOUCHSTONE INVESTIGATES DUSTY ARCHIVES OF THE STETSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Chapter III. Dean Smith and the Chapel Bell. In the olden days, Dean Smith used to ring the chapel bell. You all know that he does not do it now. I will tell you how he came to quit the job. In the days of which I am speaking, the electric gongs were not yet installed in this illustrious institution, Maybe in a distant future age, when the famous Stetson chimes will at last be existent, some poor boning student will look over the old files of The Collegiate and say, '.'So they had electric gongs in the days of our ancestors. People must have lived like hairy cave-men then." One bright morning, somewhere this side of the dawn of history, while the dew was on the grass and the mocking birds sang sweetly in the water-oak (excuse this daub of local color), Doc Hulley heard thru the office window the tinkle of the bell calling to chapel. "Well, I see the Dean's watch is correct this morning," he said as he looked at his own Ingersoll; and he left the office and marched over to the chapel. _. And a slugging match does more harm than can be undone by a dozen clean games. o CLASS ELECTIONS. The Senior Law Class has elected for President, Mr. Steed; Vice-President, Mr. Kanner; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Law. The Junior Law Class has elected for President, Mr. Haskins; Vice-President, Mr. Davis; Secretary-Treaurer, Miss Hathcock. The Sophomore College Class has elected for President, Miss Arnold; Vice-President, Austin Conrad; Secretary-Treasurer, Catherine Haynes. Reporter, Mary Sheppard. # , Mr. Wilbur Divine, of St. Pet" I ersbuag, is a new student in the I business college. Mr. Harry Klingler, an A. T. O. from Muhlenberg College is in school now. Mr. Klingler was at Stetson during the fall term of 1912 and made many friends who are glad to welcome him here. Miss Elizabeth Munhall, one of the popular Tri-Deltas of last year was present at the Sigma Nu open house on last Saturday. Miss Munhall is spending the winter in J Eustis, we understand. Her many friends are sorry she is not back in school. Several of the Phi Beta Psi boys are going up to Jacksonville this week to meet a conclave of the A. T. O.'s who are forming an Alumni Association in that city. Mr. E. A. Werner, the Province Chief of A. T. O may come back with them to inspect the local chapter. ii^'ncln up tut swaps' l\j nit; plai- form and strode to the venerable, time-scarred pres dential chair. The students filed in—husky warriors and demure-eyed co-ed ; the various Profs took their respective seats on the platform—that is, all but Dean Smith. The Dean was absent, as we know; he had the-important office of ringing the chapel bell. Dean Carson arose to call the roll —but no bell rang. He waited; he listened—but no bell. Doc Hulley looked at his watch; it was five minutes past time for that bell to ring. They waited some more—they waited five minutes—they waited ten minutes; it was now 9:05. The profs and the students were getting impatient; some of the "Weary Willies" had gone to sleep, The Doc became restless. He leaned over towards the Historical Dean and said, "It is now 9:10, and no bell. What do you think is the matter with Archie?" "Something serious, I suppose," said the dean. "Maybe he has taken heart failure, or his frown has cracked." "I'll go over and look into the matter," says Doc, and he left the platform. He went over to DeLand Hall and peeped inside. He was astonished at the sight he saw. The room looked like it had been the scene of a mighty battle. The floor was heaped four feet deep with scattered sheets of paper and scratch-pads all covered with minute rows of figures. Besides this, three walls of the room were thickly studded with a solid mass of mathematical equations. And there, befo e the empty fourth wall stood the long-lost Dean Smith. He stood, moodily frowning, with fists clenched and hair awry; apparently he was laboring under great mental stress. The Dean looked up when the Continued on Page 3 \