Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1902 — A GOOD GAME BUT— [ARTICLE]

A GOOD GAME BUT—

We Got Skinned By a Score of Tew to Six. The West Lafayette High School team, named the Oakwoods, played with our high school team, last Saturday. There was a big crowd and the game was one of the finest ever played here. It was fast and scientific, and marked by many brilliant plays, on both sides. Still our boys were clearly outclassed by the big fellows from right under the shadow of Purdue and trained by the best players of that institution. But our lads held them down nobly, and at the end the score stood only 10 to 6 in the Oakwoods’ favor. And it was only by an unluckly scratch that the Oaks did not get their bark peeled, after all. For at one time our boys had the ball on their 5 yard line and seemed sure of scoring again, when they lost the ball by a fumble. But it is no discredit to our boys to be beat by the Oakwoods. They have beaten everything they have gone up against this year, including Logansport and Crawfordsville and on Thanksgiving day wil play with Marion for the state high school championship. The game next Saturday will be with the Central high school, o ! Lafayette.