Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1916 — Many Rensselaer Fans Expect To Go to Lafayette Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Many Rensselaer Fans Expect To Go to Lafayette Sunday.

Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 19. —The Clabby football eleven of Hammond will meet the Sheridan grid team here v' , unday i afternoon at 2:30 at League l‘ark, in what promises to be one of the. best contests ever played here. The game will be the official opening of the 1916 professional gridiron season in this city. . The Hammond aggregation, accompanied by a big delegation of rooters, will come here on a special train, and they have reserved a block of 500 seats for the matinee. The Hammond band of fifteen pieces will also be here for the occasion, as will three cabaret performers, Jack Baxter, who sang at the Chicago White Sox park this last season; Max Klein and May Murphy, also singers, will be here. They will the spectators before the game and during the intermissions. •—_— Frank Blocker, captain of the 1915 Purdue football team, and one of the greatest centers in the country, is with Hammond, as is Johnny Finn, also of Purdue, and Galvin, of Wisconsin. “Pa” Herdrick, of Purdue, and Hopkins, of Wabash, as well as many other ex-Indiana college players are with Sheridan. “Hoze” Clark, of Indianapolis, will tilt. _