Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1910 — RENSSELAER DEFEATED ITS THANKSGIVING ADVERSARY. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER DEFEATED ITS THANKSGIVING ADVERSARY.

Found Curtis High\School Easy and Won by Score of 29 to 3 With Large Crowd at Game. A S9O crowd saw the Thanksgiving football game at Riverside Athletic park and witnessed the locals demonstrate their superiority over Curtis high school of Chicago. Rensselaer was determined to win and started out at a fierce gait, making three touchdowns within the first quarter. After that they slowed down considerably and the final score was Rensselaer 29; Curtis 3. The game started at 2:30 o’clock. Parks kicked out to Goble who returned to the 40 yard line. Curtis started out with a fumble and then punted the ball outside the side lines. Rensselaer was unsuccessful in an attempt at a forward pass but Porter carried the ball for about 15 yards and after Parks had failed to make a gain, Smith, who was playing left half, broke through centei, shook off several Curtis players, and went 35 yards for a touchdown. Parks failed to kick goal. Park? kicked off again and Curtis returned the ball 25 yards. They then tried for a fortvard pass but Kensselaer got the ball and Porter hit the line for 8 yards, then for 2 yards and then for 25 and a touchdown. Parks kicked goal and the score was Rensselaer 11; Curtis 0. , After the next kickoff Curtis was forced to kick on the third down. Rensselaer secured the ball and Colvert, Duvall and Parks carried the ball for another touchdown, Parks making a run of 35 yards. Curtis then kicked off and Robinson returned the ball 20 yards. Porter then made a first down on two attempts. Rensselaer then lost 15 yards on penalty after Parks had made 11 around the end and when a forward pass failed Rensselaer punted and Curtis made no gain. Curtis returned the punt and Parks was downed in his tracks and the first quarter ended. The second quarter started out with an exchange of punts and Smith changed the variety with a 25 yard run around the right end. A short punt followed and the ball went over the line and a Curtis player undertook to run out with the ball and was downed behind the lihe, which added 2 scores by the “safety” route, making the score 18 to 0. The ball was put in play by a scrimmage at the 25 yard line, but Curtis essayed another forward pass and again failed and Colvert tried a drop kick and failed. Curtis kicked from the 25 yard line and Colvert carried the ball back 30 yards. Smith made some good gains and Porter made 20 yards and Rensselaer would have made another touchdown but the timekeepers announced the end of the half. In the last quarter Smith made a 22 yard gain and Porter on a fake play made 12 yards and a touchdown. After Smith made 25 yards a forward pass attempt failed and Curtis got the ball and almost repeated the trick pulled off by Austin two weeks ago, but Porter stopped the player just in time. A little later, with the ball in possession of Curtis, and the lined up for a scrimmage on the 30 yard line, Leviton, the visitors’ left end,—made a drop kick that sailed directly between the goal posts and counted 3 points for the visitors. It was the only score they made, but it was one of the prettiest plays ever seen on the local gridiron and was an unusually fine drop kick of 35 yards. Inspired by this showing Rensselaer sailed in for another touchdown and Colvert made it with a final lunge through center for ten yards. The final score was Rensselaer 29; Curtis 3. The line-up and summary: Curtis Rensselaer Passmore, c Beam Gobel 1 g McCarthy Bronson r t Hemphill Studer r g Miller, Moore Schroeder r e Duvall Leviton 1 e Robinson Pick q Colvert Smith r h Parks Chadwick 1 h Smith DeKoker f b Porter Huston 1 t Ellis Touchdowns—Porter 2, Smitfh Colvert, Parks. Goals—Parks 2. Drop k i c k—Levi ton. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Maxwell and son Wilford spent Thanksgiving at the home of his brother, S. B. Maxwell, in Francesville. It was quite an eventful day in the Maxwell family as two children of S. B. Maxwell were married, the daughter, Miss Lena, being married at noon, and the ceremony being performed by her brother, Rev. Walter Maxwell, a young Christian minister; It was the first ceremony he had ever performed. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, Rev. Walter was himself married, and his sister to some! extent recompensed for his services at noon, by standing up as the bridesmaid, while her husband acted as best man. The two weddings coupled with a big Thanksgiving dinner, made a busy and pleasant day.