Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — FOOTBALL INCIDENT. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL INCIDENT.

Indian “Revenge” for the Fort Duquesne Defeat of 1705. ... During the last football season, the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., sentj a team of' young red men into the field Which competed with credit against some of the strongest playing clubs in the country. Among other engagements they played a match with the Duquesne club in Pittsburgh, and came off victorious. The bearing of the Indian lads was so courteous and manly ns to win appla use from all the white spectators. After they returnedliome they received a cartoon from the defeated club, with a letter stating that it was “from some of the many friends whom tlie boys had made in Pittsburgh by your gentlemanly playipg.” The sketch was drawn with spirit, and represented at one side the contest between the red and the white men at Fort Duquesne in 1795, the Indians falling beneath the shots of the settlers. On the other side was their contest in 1895, the red man standing, football in hand, victorious over his white brother; and lastly, a picture of the captain of the Indian club, as he was carried, laughing, off the field in triumph by both shouting teams. Beneath was the suggestive word: “Revenge.” If the manliness and magnanimous courtesy of these Indian and white clubs" were sTiown fill Toothall players, the prejudice of many thoughtful men anef women against the game would be lessened, if not removed. When, instead of making men more brutpl, it teaches them self-control, good temper and the generosity which can applaud a victorious foe, its discipline is wholesome.—Youth’s Companion.