Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1918 — FOOTBALL IN FRANCE KEEPS LIBERTY LADS FIT TO BUCK THE GERMAN LINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOOTBALL IN FRANCE KEEPS LIBERTY LADS FIT TO BUCK THE GERMAN LINE

Our troops have made baseball well known to the people of France by , their constant playing of the game. Now they are doing the same'service for the American style of football. Weather conditions have less influence on football than on baseball, so the liberty lads have found greater opportunity for it. Army commanders, too, advocate the game, for it hardens the men and makes them fit to buck the German line. This photograph shows a mixed group of soldiers and Interested French folk living near the American camp watching the soldiers play. The quarterback is calling off the signals as the teams face each other braced for the Impact of rushing bodies. • —.