Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — MAKE GOOD IN THE ARMY [ARTICLE]

MAKE GOOD IN THE ARMY

Men Prominent in College Athletics Rise Rapidly in the Serv- • Ice. Boulder, Colo. —University of Colorado athletes will soon find good use for the training they received in school sports here. Word has been received of th e arrival “somewhere in Fra nee” of two former football stars of the state university,. and of two others who were prominent in athletics here. Elbridge Gerry Chapman, captain of last year’s varsity eleven, went to the Fort Riley officers’ reserve camp early in the summer and is now a captain in the regular army. Eddie Egans, who was elected captain of. this year’s football squad, but who retired from school to seek fame in Uncle Sam’s fighting forces, has been made a second lieutenant and letters received here disclose the fact that he is “over there” somewhere. Horace P. Wells and Chauncey Bennett, both prominent in athletics at Boulder, have been accepted in the aviation corps and are believed to be “across the pond.”