Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — Goodland 17; Rensselaer 9. [ARTICLE]

Goodland 17; Rensselaer 9.

y —v- - •••• Oar high school boys got the short eh a of the basket ball game iaQoodland in more ways than one. They should have been entitled to the referee, bat were edged oat of this becaase they had not notified Goodland four days ahead .who the referee would be, as provided bythe rules, and then Mr. Phillips, the Goodland eighth grade teacher, who refereed the last halt, is alleged to have overlooked repeated foals committed by the Goodland players, and to have given Rensselaer some very ragged decisions. The room in which the game was played was very small and the baskets two feet lower than is required by regulation and the ceiling so low that Rensselaer was placed at a great disadvantage. Of the fourteen foals called against the Goodland team, Woodworth only succeeded in making three baskets. The other points made by Rensselaer were 2 field goals by Gowland and one by Long. The conduct there of the Rensselaer 0 boys is vonched for by Tillman and Dean.

Since returning home Mr. Tillman, who was acting mauager of the basket ball team at Goodland, Prof. Gray having been unable to go, learns that Goodland had been duly notified by Mr. Gray who the referee wonld be, and it seems that Goodland had taken advantage of Mr. Gray’s absence to deny that they had been notified. The teachers say it was>the rawest deal they have over had Ijerved to them daring their connection with athletics.