Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1919 — LOCALS AVERTED DEFEAT BY LAST MINUTE RALLY. [ARTICLE]

LOCALS AVERTED DEFEAT BY LAST MINUTE RALLY.

Ithas always been the custom of poor sports and bullies to tie cans to homeless, inoffensive puppies’ tails. Had’Rensselaer displayed their teeth and barked a little last Saturday, Logansport would have been running yet. What do you think of a set of king pins that set themselves up and let the other fellows do all the bowljust what Rensselaer did, scattered like king pins, from where Thewrrter saw a naan from this town, (the ball undbr his arm and a clear field ahead) hopping on one foot. "They shut one eye and tried to catch forward passes with one hand. They stuck their fingers in their ears for fear of hearing their own signals. They turned jjheir backs to the scrimmage line, and did all they could to let Logansport enjoy the day. They •did everything but shallow the lumps in their necks and play football. It took Logansport less than two minutes to walk up and lay the egg behind the goal lines. But hear me out —the unkindest cut of all. The act that lost a victory, the thing we. can’t forgive, was the absolute refusal of every m’an to run out and block a goal kick after Logansport set tbe baH on the ground and then waited a full half minute to kick it. Let me say that that was the biggest boner ever pulled by an R. H. S. football team since a backfield man- ran- in the wrong directiofi with

a fumble in 1915. The score would have been 7 to 6 in our favo” instead of a tie. Up to the second quarter Fidler was the only man fit to wear the Red and Black; That hoy played havoc with everything that came his way. We’ve never seen better defensive work from a man his size. He alone gets S in deportment for the first period. When he went out we went down on our knees. Harmon answered the prayer. At full speed he intercepted a forward pass just before it struck the ground, regained his balance and started out on a 25-yard run/ the turning point of the game. Then “Gussie” Tilton Hear me. When “Gussie” Tilton really puts pains in his work he can pull star plays so fast that the rest of the bunch gets jealous. That’s just what “Gussie” did—he kept the home fires burning until the re§t of the boys warmed their feet. Once over the cold-feet stage, that little team played football as it is taught in R. H. S. Even the featherweights, Brown - Thompson and Wright, proved big enough to throw the Logansport backfield men for loss after loss. The moment Rensselaer took an openoffensive, Logansport started slipping and was finally forced into a desperate position. We’ve never seen a good looking team in such a pitiful change; and unorganized they fought Rensselaer off their goal line the whole last quarter, and were well satisfied to have the game end in a tie score. —SPECTATOR.