Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1905 — The Rank, Raw and Ribald Roast. [ARTICLE]

The Rank, Raw and Ribald Roast.

0 1 the Delphi Herald Well Answered by The Journal of The Same Town. The Delphi Herald’s-outrageous football articles over the alliterative heading of, Beef Brawn and Brutality, is well atoned for by that always honorable and influential paper, the Delphi Journal, whose account of the RensselaerDelphi game of last Saturday, is in part, as follows: The Rensselaer high school foot ball team defeated the Delphi high school team at the athletic park in in this city "Saturday afternoon by a score of 11 to 0. The Saturday previous the score stood 18 to 0 in favor of Rensselaer.

About eight hundred people witnessed the game and it was one of the cleanest and fastest mes ever played on a Delphi gridiron. Rensselaer outweighed the locals about ten pounds to the man, and the superior individual playing of Dobbins, left half back for Rensselaer, were responsible for Delphi’s defeat. About fifty Rensselaer people came with their team and returned home very enthusiastic over the victory. While the Delphi boys met defeat, they take i,t gracefully and justly so, because they put up their best game. It was a clean and gentlemanly game, the players showing no disposition to slug or or folu their opponents in any way and Referee Charley Pollard, of this city, and Umpire Moses Leopold, of Reusselaer, had absolute command at all times, and their decisions Were very satisfactory. To a true lover of foot ball, it was a great contest, and another game of this character would draw a large crowd, even with Rensselaer as opponents.