Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1916 — PINE VILLAGE ELEVEN TO PLAY HERE [ARTICLE]

PINE VILLAGE ELEVEN TO PLAY HERE

Dow nut ate Footfall Team, Rated the Best in West, to Meet Valparaiso Here Oct. Ist or Bth.

Clair Rhoades, ieadcr of the famous Pine Village football eleven, was in Rensselaer Friday and while hare closed negotiations with the manager of the Valparaiso team to meet the club of that city in a game of football in Rensselaer on either October Ist or Bth. Whenever anyone mentions Pine Village there is immediately the vision of a football in the listener’s mind. Pine Village is hard to find on the map, but on the football map they loom up mightily. Pine Village is accredited with having the greatest independent football team in the middle west and it is doubtful if there is an organization in the country that can trounce the downstate farmers. Pine Village has not been defeated in the past twelve years, and have been scored on but once in the past eight years, the Rensselaer team tarnishing their record in this respect when Ob Beam crossed their goal line three years ago, after intercepting a forward pass. In their line-up are some of the greatest college players in the middle west and Jim Thorpe was a member of this powerful eleven last year. Manager Rhoades is a clean sportsman, and says that is the kind of players that he has on his team. Rhoades also stated that if the crowd is sufficiently large that he will stage another game here later on that should be the greatest contest that could possibly be played. Pine Village right now has the same.enthusiasm that Rensselaer manifested the old days, when this city had a team that was never defeated, during the times of the Saylor boys, Hardy, Pete Rhoades, Mcon, Leopold, Wright, Gwin, Healey, etc. Ed Davis, former Indiana University star, is a member of the Pine Village club and will be seen in action here. Matthew . Winters, also an Indiana man, will be in the lineup. Jim Hooker, a Pine Village man of considerable ability, is another. Eli Fenters, the Pine Village quarterback, although not a college man, is, in the estimation of Manager Rhoades, the greatest backfield man in the state of Indiana and is highly recommended by Rhoades. John Redmond, also an Indiana University athlete, will be in the line. Emmet Keefe, a Benton county boy who won the all round athletic honors at Uotre Dame University, will be here. Bill Williams, of I. U., Harry Sheridan, of Purdue, and Martindale, Odle and Ray Fenters, of Pine Village, and Tuck Milligan, of Morocco, will compose the rest of the team. The Pine Village eleven will average from 165 to 180 pounds. O. H. Helvie is the head of the Valparaiso team and was a member in former years of both the Pine Village team and the Marion Club of Indianapolis and is said to h£*7e welded together a great team at the university city. It is up to Rensselaer people and those of the surrounding towns and country to support this game, the exact date of which will be announced later, if they care to sec them in future games.