Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — Can You Guess What Happened Just Ten Years Ago Today. [ARTICLE]

Can You Guess What Happened Just Ten Years Ago Today.

Think a minute before you read this. If you did" not live in Rensselar ten years ago or if you were not one of the football bugs of that day and age, you won’t be able to gueßa,_ 7 . •, It was ten years ago today, Dec. 2, 1901, which happened to be on Monday, that Pat O’Dea brought his South Bend athletes here to play foot ball with 5 the Rensselaer Athletics. Result, 0 to 0. But it was a mighty crestfallen bunch of athletes that returned to South Bend after the game and Pat’s phantom of "easy money" vanished.