Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1914 — World Champions Could Furnish Football Team [ARTICLE]

World Champions Could Furnish Football Team

How baseball does hang around ip the spotlight! The world’s champions, alias the Athletics, present these good reasons: Eddie Collins was a quarter back at Holy Cross; Jack Coombs was a fullback at Colby; Chief Bender was a tackle at Carlisle, one of the best, too; Jack Mclnnis played on the Gloucester (Mass.) eleven, and Eddie Murphy was a pigskin knight at Villanova.