Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1904 — Crown Point A Good Second [ARTICLE]

Crown Point A Good Second

The Crown Point Register admits that Rensselaer high school won the championship it oiaims, bat does poin a very grndgiog manner, apd intimates that Crown Point is tse better team, and really deserves she championship. It says it is tjie scores that count and gives the figures to show that Crown Pqint scored 169 points to only six against them, during tbe seat-on, while Rensselaer scored 167 to 10 sgainst tb« a, Oo its fpco this is a very strong showing fpr Crown Point, but it should remembered that while its “socres that coant,” the kind of teams scored against, ount also. Thns it appears that while Rens-’-eltitr was bumped up against strong teams all the way through the season, Crown Point was matched with a lot of rather weak aist rs, who were very easy to run up big scores on. Thus Lowell hgh school for instance, when

Oro*n Point soored 71 points, and would have scored more bat their wind gave out. Also two games with the "Hammond Baptists” and everybody knows the readiness of Bap'is's to "take water.” A scrub te*-m at Crown Point, the Iroquois at Hammond, and the high sobool of Valporaiso, were the others p'ayed by Crown Point. None of them at all strong teams. On the other hand Rensselaer had t ) p'ay against such wonld-be obhmuioDß as Monticello and Lafayeite, and the N. W. Military Aoademy and the Brook Atheletics. All very strong aggregations.