Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1905 — AS SEEN BY A DELPHI EDITOR. [ARTICLE]

AS SEEN BY A DELPHI EDITOR.

Editor 1 sherwood of the Delphi Herald, was over here Saturday and took in the football ' game. He knows what good football I is and what good treatment is, and the following is his report of the game: | 18 to 0. That’s the story at Rensselaer. • And we got the 0 end of it The foot ball game Saturday was clean from start to finish. There was no dirty playing and as Paul Hamling was wont to say “everything was as quiet as a Sunday school.” The Rensselaer team is very, heavy, averaging 157 pounds while Delphi came under 130. There were three giants in the Rensselaer team who formed a sort of a wedge and mowed down all be fore them. Delphi put up a plucky game and the score should have been 6 to 0 instead of 18; the poor playing of the Delphians being more sponsible than the good playing of their adversaries. I At the end of the first half the score was 6 to 0, the home team having made by hard work, a touch down and kicked goal.

| In the second half a series of mistakes added 12 more to the Rensselaer score. | But those fellows are foot ball player. When babies in other towns cry for rattle boxes and | rubber dolls, the Rensselaer boy ' baby howls for a foot ball. At 6 I he is an amatuer player with at least a broken collar bone or a sprained knee. At 12 he enters the semi professional class and at 20 while he barely gets into the high school he is a foot ball player with aiecord. I And they grow big men at Rensselaer. The high school boy there looks like a giant. Big of bone and muscle, and very active for his size. But they are gentleman up there, as the 70 Delphi ans who went up can testify. If they treated Shortridge badly there must be two sides to the question.