Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1910 — Battle Ground Defeated St. Joe In Football Contest Saturday. [ARTICLE]

Battle Ground Defeated St. Joe In Football Contest Saturday.

Battle Ground defeated St. Joe at football Saturday, the score being 10 to 0. It was the first game the college has played since it lost to the Rensselaer athletic team the early part of the season. The team showed a marked improvement and save for a little hard luck would have held the Battle Ground bunch to a tie. Battle Ground can get up a football team that is mighty good on short notice and in this team they had as a star, little Tommy Fisher, who played last year with the Battle Ground high school against Rensselaer and proved so effective. Johnny is going to school this year at Purdue and he was not familiar with the Battle Ground signals and therefore had some difficulty in directing the game from the quarterback’s position, but he was ably supported Jby a good set of backs and fleet ends and done some good work himself and the college never got away with any very long runs and never threatened to score. On the other hand Battle Ground had difficulty in getting away and scored but twice, once when Fisher intercepted a forward pass and scored before the St. Joe boys realized what was going on, and again when Cassidy, the big fullback for the visitors, plowed through the line and made a touchdown after an 80-yard run. McArdle, one of the best college players, was disabled at the beginning of the second quarter and his absence from the game was seriously felt. Pettinger was a power in the defensive work, while Minster was the leading ground gainer for the college. The entire colege line-up looks good and Coach Kirk is developing a team that after a few games will be hard to handle.