Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1917 — Camp Custer Soldiers to Play At Lafayette Sunday. [ARTICLE]
Camp Custer Soldiers to Play At Lafayette Sunday.
Football fans in this vicinity will have a chance to see a great football. team in action next Sunday -when the Camp Custer eleven meets Pine Village at Lafayette. The Camp Custer athletes defeated the famous Detroit Heralds last Sunday in a game that startled Detroit, and which was witnessed by 15,000 people. The -ease with which the soldiers defeated the Heralds was amazing, and when Clarie Rhode stacks his bunch of Villagers up against the Custer outfit he will assume a hard task. The Detroit critics state that the Custer eleven is the classiest aggregation of gridders that ever showed their wares in the big city. ' Pine Village will be bolstered for the day and are secretly planning a comeback after their two straight defeats at the hands of Hammond and Wabash.
