Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — A Dog Playing Football. [ARTICLE]

A Dog Playing Football.

A most amusing scene was witnessed one Sunday afternoon in Moore street, Dublin, where a number of gamins were playing foot-ball with a large bladder under their own special rules. One of the teams, presumably being disappointed in the turn-out of a “man,” filled the vacancy by substituting in his stead a handsome collie dog. The dog played his game with extraordinary intelligence, stopping the ball with his head when It was going against his team, and upon every occasion on which he got possession of it he ran off with it in his mouth and, despite all opposition of his opponents, carried It triumphantly through the goal. The game lasted about twenty-five minutes in the presence of a large gathering and ended with much excitement in the dog’s team winning 10 to nil, As there was no gate to receive money and as the teams depended on the generosity of their patrons, the latter voluntarily sub? scribed liberally. It is a pity, I am ftfraid, that the best “man" in tjie field —or rather the streets—received very little of the receipts—l mean the <}og,— Ppblip Frpemap’s Journal. The annua} increase pf the German nation duripg the last five years fr.gf beep more than five times as mpch as that of the French. IV:., i'