Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1901 — Foot Ball Gone Glimmering. [ARTICLE]

Foot Ball Gone Glimmering.

These be dark and doleful days in Rensselaer’s erstwhile jublilant foot ball (prospects. Only two short weeks ago, we could boast of having a foot ball team in prospect for this season, which would keep up the unconquered record of last year. Now all that has changed, and Rensselaer, from a foot ball point of view, is dead as Julius Caesar, and like him “none so poor to do us reverence.” The unexpected departure for college of Albert Marshall and Frank Sayler, two cracker jacks of bucking backs, was a knock outblow. Then Jennings Wright, a man of might, announced that his business interests would not permit him to play. That was another big score against us. And Bert Rhoades still another of our best men is away, attending business college. Thus with four of the best players out, those who are left feel that it would be impossible to organize a team that could keep up the pace of last year, and former yean, and rather than to fall below that record they prefer not to reorganize at all, this season. This decision may not be final, but from present indications it will become so.