Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — Fifteen Touchdowns Against Monon Makes New Football Record Here. [ARTICLE]

Fifteen Touchdowns Against Monon Makes New Football Record Here.

“Tubby” McDonald and his gridiron warriors from Monon made a very poor showing against the Rensselaer high school Friday evening and the local lads made a total of 83 points and would have run the seore up to 100 had not darkness interfered. ’ To offset this big score the Monon chaps ' ere unable to make a single pole* and only twice did they even make a first down. At the kick off Porter got the ball and carried it back about 10 yeards. Parks then made 30 yards around the left end and James Ellis, who was playing behind the line for the first time, went around the right end for a 55-yard run and a touchdown. That was the>«hrt of what all expected to be a rather close game, for “Tubby” McDonald, the little athletic enthusiast, bad brought over a pretty husky looking set of football players. But they did not know the game, and during the 40 minutes of actual play there were fifteen touchdowns made and from eight of these goals wei*e kicked. The hgh school boys were anxious to run the score up to 100, but it was so dark that the game had to be called 10 minutes before the time was up. It was the largest score ever made on the local gridiron. The touchdowns were distributed as follows: Parks 4, Porter 3, Beam 3, Ellis, Duvall, Robinson, Miller and Smith each 1. The goal kicks were divided between Parks and Porter. The high school team seems to be in pretty good shape now. Coach Rice Porter has been developing them quite rapidly and they are good fofr some difficult games. “Beat Watseka” is a very popular war gry and if that team could be secured for ths Thanksgiving game we would have out an old time crowd with the old time enthusiasm. Having made arrangements whereby we can buy Gold Medal flour at the car load rate, We are prepared to sell you the best flour on earth as cheaply aB any other high grade flour is sold. Give us a trial. , # ,

J. A. McFAIRLAND.