Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1901 — THE SOUTH BENDERS CAME DOWN [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH BENDERS CAME DOWN

as ; -S3 3 “LIKE THE WOLF ON THE FOLD" Their Pockets All Bulging With Greenbacks and Gold Thoy Offered Big Odds, But the Takers Were Few But When the Game Ended, A Lot More They Knew. In Anticipation A lengthy young man named O’Dea, Who is coming next Monday to plea, I Kicks the foot ball so high Far np in the skigh That it never comes down till next deal

In Realization When Parcels grabbed kicker O’Dea And two-stepped and waltzed him awea, The Benders —they stared And Patrick—he sweared! But the Rooters went wild—so they seal What Capt. O’Dea Says: “Rensselaer can beat any team in Indiana except Notre Dame.” What Lins, South Bend’s right end says: “Rensselaer with proper praotice and coaching would be the equal of any team in the Uoitedj3tates.” It was a great game —as one man expressed it, “a dollar game at a quarter price.” No important gridiron battle in the entire west was pitohed so nearly even during the past season and no crowd watched the successive gains and losses of opposing teams with such spellbound interest. It was a game in which the sustaining of the unbroken records of victory of tit- great teams was at stake and e/ary participant seamed to grasp |he importancje each man felt "as if himself were he, on whose sole arm hung victory.” Determination characterized the players and the result was the outcome of a matoh in whioh neither could claim superiority. Rensselaer won the toss and O’Dea kicked back of the goal line. The ball was then brought out to the 25 yard line and Sayler punted to South Bend’s 40 yard line. South Bend began a series of short gains and carried the ball to Rensselaer’s 20 yard line, where Rensselaei held for downs, but fumbled and lost the ball on its first attempt to gain ground. South Bend failed to gain on two attempts and O’Dea tried a drop kick. He was off well to the side of the field, at an angle of about 45 degrees from the goal poets, but the ball went almost straight across the field and was secured out of bounds by Rhoades. Rensselaer then made several good gains and finally punted the ball far down into O’Dea’s ground. The remainder of the first half the ball was kept near the oenter of the field, Rensselaer and South Bend each being penalized 10 yards for offside play. In the second half Rensselaer slightly outplayed their opponents, Sayler outpunting O’Dea on every exchange. Mills suffered a slight injury between his shoulders and muoh to his displeasure, was foroed out of the game. Myers replaced him and played bis usual excellent game at defense. About the middle of the second half O’Dea es-

sayed another drop kiok from the 60 yard line, but it fell short 15 yards and Sayler brought it back to the 80 yard line. Near the end of the half, the ball :n the possession of South Bend, O’Dea undertook to circle the Rensselaer right end. Parcels orossed over the field taokled O’Dea amidships, and raising him up so that his toes just touched the ground, carried him backward a distance of 25 yards amjdowned him so hard that the 'wind was knocked out of him. At juncture Studebaker took the -ball from O’Dea and started to run, an unfair and as he soon found decidedly impractical thing to do, for he was downed by three or four Rensselaer foot ball players and there was such a general rising of indignation that it took the. immediate action of cool heads to prevent a riot. This seemed to rather take the stiffening out of the entire South Bend aggregation and they at once lost the ball on downs and Sayler punted it to South Bend’s 10 yd line, Where Jay Sayler downed Reed without any gain. At this juncture with the ball in South Bend’s possession, on their own 10 yard line, the whistle blew for the end of the game. Neither side having scored, but Rensselaer having considerably the best of the game. In the South Bend line-up, in addition to the regular athletic club, almost all of university training, were three of the best men in this year’s Notre Dame team. viz. Captain Fortin, star tackle; right end Lins, and left guard Winter. The management of the Rensselaer team protested their playing these men, but O’Dea stated that if they were not allowed to play the game would be oalled off, and so Rensselaer conceded the point that saved the South Bend team from humiliating defeat. The line-up follows: Rensselaer Positions South Bend J. Sayler 1 e Currie Moon 1t....... Walker Healey 1 g .'Winter Wright .0.-rt-r^Studebaker Cain .r g Zuelke Leopold r t .-.'Fortin Woodworth(o.).r e ..Lins Rhoades q b Mills, Myers.... r h... B. Koehler F. Sayler f b.P. O’Dea (C.) Paroels 1 h.... F, Koehler Twenty-five minutes. Offioials — Salmon, Notre Dame; Fendig, Rensselaer. Linesmen—Yank and E. Mills. Timekeepers—Snipps and Murray.