Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1916 — TEAMS PRIMED FOR TITLE CLASH [ARTICLE]

TEAMS PRIMED FOR TITLE CLASH

Red and Black Fit For Start A gains Downstate Favorites At Lafayette Tomorrow.

For the past two w*eeks Rensselaer high school’s football team has been working earnestly, with but one obejct in view—that of being in such perfect shape that a triumph over Sheridan high school eleven in the Purdue-Indiana curtain .Miser would jbe their rewal'd. Rensselaer is sched- ! uled to collide with the cream of the downstate schools tomorrow morning on old Stewart Field, at Purdue University, a field where some of the greatest football players who ever stepped into a coated shoe, have i played. , For the past two weeks the local team has been drilled hard by Coach I Meyers and every man is physically fit to give the best in him tomorrow morning. Sheridan has trampled over everything they have met in the downstate section and with the exception of the game they lost at Gary a week ago, have a perfect record. This game tomorrow means much to the winner, for they will have a joint claim to thg state title with Gary. The latter school has a good record for the season, but they have been defeated and wherein they have any better claim than Sheridan or Rensselaer cannot very easily be seen and whenever any other school mentions titles, they ask the impertinent question: “What right have you to be claiming titles?” We are not underestimating the strength of the steel city team and are not saying that they are not deserving of the title, but they cannot have it just because they think they ought to. Gary could have come here Thanksgiving if they had so desired arid played to the largest crowd that they have played before this season, but they declined,, saying it would be on Gain’s field or not at all. Morocco had the same privilege and declined. It is probable that a great number of rooters will accompany the local squad to the Tippecanoe capitol tomorrow morning. The game is scheduled to start at 10 o’clock and the indications are that a large crowd will witness the combat. A cross-country run is scheduled among the universities at 1 p. m., and this is the reason that the high school game is played in the morning.