Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1916 — Hammond Coach Praises Our High School Team. [ARTICLE]

Hammond Coach Praises Our High School Team.

In a letter to The Republican, Coach W. D. Mead ,of the Hammond high school football team has the following to say relative to the game last Saturday, and what he thinks of the Rensselaer team: “I want to send a little word of the sentiment established in Hammond regarding the ability of the Rensselaer team which came to our city to play our high school eleven last Saturday before a crowd of 500 people. The game was the best put up by any visiting team here this season. Hammond had expected to equal at least the score of the Hammond-East Chicago game of two weeks ago when the East Chicago team was defeated by a score of 19 to 7. Rensselaer’s strong defensive playing made it a hard task for Hammond to get what she did, although the offensive of the visiting team lacked the punch to make her dangerous at any time in last Saturday’s game. The game was truly a football game from start to finish and was played off in record time. “I note your reply to my statement published in our local paper last week. I have nothing to comment on ancient history. It is the present time that I am most interested in, and trust that the future may hold for us the very friendliest relations. We are already booked with Rensselaer for a football game next year, to be played at Rensselaer Nov. 3, wherein more history will be made, and just in whose favor is hardly yet time to predict, or say who will play the curtain raiser at the annual Purdue-In-diana game.”