August 4, 2014
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It was November 1964, the week before the Lafayette-Lehigh 100th game. As part of my total immersion in Lafayette sports, I had taken over as sports editor of the Lafayette that September. And now I had to write a preview of one of the most significant games in Lafayette history.
Looking back I realize my journalistic style was one of hyperbole and there emerged an article titled Lafayette to Slaughter Lehigh Tommorow. It was not a two-column article but one which covered two entire pages top to bottom. My writing was complicated by the fact that I was also manager of the football, basketball and baseball teams. I learned early on that this could be a severe conflict of interest because people actually read what I wrote. Thus after my first article as editor in which using hyperbole again I criticized the offensive line after a scrimmage I was threatened by players and coaches with bodily harm and demoted to the freshman.
Parenthetically this was great because the freshmen were awesome and went undefeated and were the core of the varsity for three years. So as not to repeat history, the article I wrote that day went position by position detailing why our players were superior and we could not lose. That night before the game I did not sleep but that was the norm before each game. And after a loss my frat brothers knew to not talk to me for two days or I would bite their heads off. After the hundredth game and now fifty years later I still feel the bitterness of "kissing my sister." So I say for the 150th edition -- Lafayette to Annihilate Lehigh.
Neil Meade '67
