Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1908 — Calls Rensselaer Team Quitters. [ARTICLE]

Calls Rensselaer Team Quitters.

An article signed by D. A. Roof appeared in the Crown Point Star this week which jumped all over Principal Bradshaw of the Rensselear schools and called the Rensselaer football team a bunch of quitters. It seems that Rensselaer was to have played Crown Point a return game but decided not to go, and Prof. Bradshaw set forth in his letter canceling the game that parents of some of the members of the team objected to letting their sons go to Crown Point, because of “rumors”. It seems that Crown Point left here somewhat disgruntled over their defeat, and that they told before they left that when they got Rensselaer up there they would get the game even if they had to steal it. Other remarks are attributed to them and both Profs. Bradshaw and Dean as well as most members of the team thought it would be best not to go inasmuch as there were indications of bad blood. After the Oakwcod I game the Rensselaer team was so badly bunged up that they were not in shape for a game the following Saturday and in canceling the game Proi. Bradshaw varied from the rule of evasion and told exactly why the team would not be there. It probably means the severing of athletic relations with Crown Point in the futu.e.