Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — GRIDIRON NEWS OF INTEREST [ARTICLE]

GRIDIRON NEWS OF INTEREST

Famous Pine Village Team Met Their Waterloo Sunday. The St. Joseph college football team played the Hammond Maroons Sunday afternoon at the college grounds, defeating the visitors by the score of 13 to 7. The game was a good one throughout but the , college boys gave evidence of their j superiority at the very beginning and kept the visitors on the defensive all along the line. A gang of Germans from Cincinnati under the mask of an Irish monicker, the Celts, invaded the Pine Village football camp Sunday afternoon and defeated the Pine Village gridders for the first time in thirteen years, and gained the distinction of being the second team to cross the Pine Villa'ge goal line in the same number of years. The final score was Celts, 9; Fine Village, 6. It was an excellent exhibition of the popular fall sport and the game was hard fought every inch of the way. The Celts scored a touchdown in the second quarter, on a peculiar, and antiquated, “on side” kick, and scored a drop kick in the third period. Pine Village scored in the last quarter when Eli Fenters skirted his left end for a 55-yard run for a touchdown. A large number from this city went to Pine Village and witnessed the game. Pine Village will play the Wabash A. A. at Lafayette on November 12. A thrilling battle was waged on Stuart field at Lafayette Saturday in the presence of 6,000 spectators between Bob Zuppke’s Illinois Suckers and Cleo O’Donnell’s Purdue Boilermakers, the latter going down to defeat after bitterly contesting every inch of ground gained by the victors. The final result read, Illinois, 14; Purdue; 7. The old gold and black was outplayed, but not outfought, succumbing to defeat because of Illinois’ superior all around ability. Captain Hake of the Purdue team had his collar bone broken in the fourth quarter ancj will be unable to play again for several days. The South Bend high school football team defeated the Hammond high school team Saturday 19 to 7. Kentland high school was defeated by Kirklin high school 33 to 26. When ready to start fall housecleaning don’t forget that The Democrat sells a big armful of old papers for only five cents.