Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1914 — Oliphant Receives Appointment To West Point Military Academy. [ARTICLE]

Oliphant Receives Appointment To West Point Military Academy.

Oliphant, the star football, basketball and baseball player at Purdue University, has received an appointment to the U. S. military college at West Point, and this means that he will not be smothered beneath the three-year rule that prevails for athletes in the conference colleges. The captain of the U. 8. naval academy is Harvey Overesch, also a Lafayette boy, and this means that Lafayette will have a very deep interest in 'the 1914 football clash between the army and navy teams, and The Lafayette Journal suggests the chartering of a special train from Lafayette to attend the game, which will probably be played at Philadelphia.