Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — Leonard Elder, son of Mr. and Mrs. [ARTICLE]

Leonard Elder, son of Mr. and Mrs.

David Elder, of this city, and captain of the Franklin college football team, was reported to have been badly injured in a game of football at Bloomington Saturday afternoon. Franklin was playing the state university and it was in the third period that Elder was hurt. Sunday morning papers stated that he was seriously injured and that concussion of the bxain was feared. The papers stated that he had been removed to a Bloomington hospital and was still unconscious at a late boflr Saturday night. Omar Elder, a brother of the football player, went tV Bloomington Sunday and when he arrived there he learned that Leonard had not been seriously hurt and that he was able to return to Franklin Sunday noon. Omar went to Franklin to ascertain the true condition of his brother. ,