Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1917 — Montmorenci Should Cop State Title This Year. [ARTICLE]

Montmorenci Should Cop State Title This Year.

As the time for the sectional basketball tournaments over the state draws nearer, it has now become a favorite pasttime to dope the chances of the various teams and .the probable winners of these tournaments, who will go to Bloomington on March 16 and 17. f One team that looms up as a formidable contender for the state title .is.„the,,team-.fxom...>the.little village of. Montmorenci, a few miles from LafayetteTTast year This team finished second among the schools of the state, only the mighty quintette from Jefferson high of Lafayette being able to show them the way. The Jefferson team of last year is gone and only the remnants of their powerful team of last year are left. Montmorenci has the same formidable crew that battled their way to the finish line in 1916, and with an added year’s experience should, when the final whistle is blown at the tournament, be acknowledged as the class of the Indiana basketball teamd. The Montmorenci five is made up of tall, muscular, speedy young farmer boys. The personnel of the team greatly resembles that of the twotime winners of the state banner, Wingate. Montmorenci played twentytwo games this season and won twcffi-ty-twio games. , 1