Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1916 — FOOTBALL. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL.

Walsh Hal), of Notre Dame, defeated the St. Joseph’s college varsity at the college gridiron Sunday by the score of 12 to 6. Walsh Hall earned one of her touchdowns, while the other was the result of a fumble by a St. Joe backfield man. St. Joe’s touchdown came as a result of 3 blocked kick, a St. Joe man breaking through and recovering the ball and dashing across the Notre Dame goal for a touchdown. The visitors were about equal in weight with St. Joe, but presented a fast and shifty attack. Coach Parker attributes the defeat to nervousness on the part of his proteges and the fact that he had slowed them up, thinking that Notre Dame would show a style of play they were not used to and wanting to get on to their method of play. Notre Dame did not show the expected class of attack of which theywere expected, however, in the way of new play. The visitors were a real football team apd St. Joe should not feel badly over their defeat. Pine Village was held to a .tie by the Toledo team at Toledo Sunday. Neither side was able to score, which is the second scorless tie the Villagers have played this year, the previous one having been with Wabash. The Villagers have met with defeat twice this year and they will not have much of a claim on the Western Independent championship this year. The Villagers had in their lineup some of the greatest football players ever turned out, but even with them they were unable to penetrate the Toledo defense. Soucy and King, two of the .greatest players turned out by Harvard, were in the lineup. Buckail American tackle from Wisconsin, and Ofstie, from the same place, also played. About all the western football games ran true to form Saturday, the only upset being the defeat administered Illinois by Chicago, by a score of 26 to 7. Northwestern crushed Purdue 30 to 6: Case was trounced by Ohio, while Minnesota gave Wisconsin an awful lacing, 54 to 0. Brown, in the east, defeated Harvard 21 to 0 and the Providence men by virtue--of their wins over Yale ami Harvard, have a good claim for the eastern honors. Pittsburg and the Army, however, can dispute their claim. Yale defeated Princeton 10 to 0, thus again upsetting the dope, as the Tigers were expected to win. Indiana defeated Florida University at Bloomington 14 to 3. The defeat of Sheridan-high school at the hands of Gary high at the latter place Saturday put quite a damper on the Sheridan-Rensselaer game at Lafayette next Saturday morning, and considerable of the glamor of the coming contest has been erased. This game has been advertised for the state championship, and now that the Sheridan team has been defeated by a northern representative, Rensselaer will have but very little to gain, while a defeat will eliminate them both from the running for the state championship and also from the northern Indiana race. Sheridan pulled a foolish move by scheduling this game. The Steel City gang is now claiming the state title and a win by Rensselaer over Sheridan will leave a controversy between the two schools which probably will never be settled. Gary has met with defeat once this year, the same as Rensselaer. The defeat administered to the Gary team was by Morocco high school and if either Gary -or Morocco could be secured here for Thanksgiving day the game should draw the greatest crowd that ever saw a high school game in this city on Turkey Day. A win over Morocco by Rensselaer would be an indirect win over Gary, while a victory over Gary would give the state championship to Rensselaer. , Rensselaer rooters should accompany the local team to Lafayette next Saturday and help them win. The Hammond Clabbys were defeated by Davenport, la., at the former place Sunday 14 to 12. The Fort Wayne Friars defeated the Wabash A. A. Sunday 13 to 7.