Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1897 — WATSEKA! [ARTICLE]

WATSEKA!

OH, WAT SEEK YE? If it is a Sound Trouncing, You've Got What You Came For. Score one more great victory for the Rensselaer foot ball team. Thursday afternoon they met the Watseka, 111., team and came home with the long and tangly scalp locks of the Suckers dangling from their belts. They also had fifty solid dollars jingling in their wampum sack. The game began at two o’clock, on the Remington fair grounds, and was finished at 4. The crowd in attendance was not large, fully half, it was estimated being from Rensselaer. It wus a very nice game, tyid played in a gentlemanly way, just as all such games should be. Our boys are all loud in their praise of the honorable and court-1 eous conduct of .the Watseka players. A minister of the Gospel came with the latter team, by the way, and after the game was over lie. was overheard commending the gentlemanly behavior of both teams, and said he heard not a single expletive during the whole game that could be called an oath,

The Rensselaers were commanded by Capt. Marshall, the Watsekas by Capt. Trotter. The line-up of the Watsekas we are unable to give. That of the Rensselaers was as follows. Lakeycenter rush Irwin right guard Cainleft guard Manleyright tackle Collins.... . .left tackle Woodworthright end Wright .left end Saylor.......quarter back Marshallright half back Meyersleft half back Brinleyfull back When the game finished the victory was with Rensselaer by a score of 20 to 0. There were no accidents during the game.