Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1919 — HAMMOND COLLECTS $20,000 WORTH OF FOOTBALL TALENT. [ARTICLE]

HAMMOND COLLECTS $20,000 WORTH OF FOOTBALL TALENT.

Hammond, Ind.., Sept. 19.—With a list of football stars drawing a salary of $20,000 for the season, Hammond, which won the middle west football championship last year, will beard Jim Thorpe’s Canton Tigers in their lair this season fop national professional honors. Brierley and King, of Harvard, are signed up with Hammond, which will tMs year be without the services (\ Paddy Driscol. The stars who have signed up so far are: Brickley and King, of Howard and ski, Notre Dame; Blacklock, Michigan Aggies; Pashmalon, Yale; Overbaugh, Brown and Halas, University of Illinois; Barrett, Cincinnati Celts; Falcon, Wabash; Bosdett, Oak Park, with the Hammond stars who made the town famous in professional football last year, will be in the line-up. Eight games will be played in Chicago, Detroit and Canton. Carolan, of Dartmouth, will coach the Hammond team.