Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1917 — Gridders Primed For Start; Kentland to Be the Foe. [ARTICLE]

Gridders Primed For Start; Kentland to Be the Foe.

Coach Meyers’ football crowd from Rensselaer high school, who have been practicing faithfully for the past three weeks for the football season, are pulling at the leash which binds them, eager to be up and at their foes. Their chance will come tomorrow, when Kentland will help to pry off the football lid at Riverside park. The locals are primed for the start and are in perfect condition for the task which is confronting them. The only handicap they will be under when they enter the game will be the absence of Paul Beam, sterling center, who has failed to get a doctor’s certificate permitting him to play. The absence of Beam to bolster up the line will be keenly felt and Coach Meyers has been forced to make an eleventh hour shift in his attack. Kentland lost to Morocco on last Saturday, but are well pleased with their showing, and according to the press of that city have no fears concerning the outcome of their battle tomorrow. Rensselaer thinks differently. True, Morocco is a tough customer and Kentland did well, but Morocco will be attended to on Oct. 13th by Rensselaer and whatever claims the Moroc£oans have on the football championship will be wiped off the slate.