Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — JOLLY GAME BUT ONE SIDED. [ARTICLE]

JOLLY GAME BUT ONE SIDED.

Red and Black De'eat Lowell By Score of 40 to 0. The Lowell foot ball players were mighty game losers. They put up a plucky scrap against the skilled team composed i of the combined athletic and high school teams, but they could not master the gridiron problem and were literally played off their feet. The final score was, Rensselaer 40; Lowhll 0. And the game was called with the ball in Rensselaer’s possession and well into the territory of the LowelEtes when 4 minutes remained to be played and when the Rensselaer backs and ends were alternately carrying tre ball from 15 to 50 yards at every down. It was an interesting for several reasons, pailicula ly be a se of the good spirit of sportsmanship prevailing. Lowell did not play such a poor game but the choice players in the two aggregations that represented Rensselaer made an unusually strong team, with an unusually fleet set of backs and ends and they got into the game with an interference organization not se n since the old days.

The ground was miserably bard, and there was constant danger of some one getting severely - injured, but fortunately only a few bumps and bruises resulted. The game abounded in Interesting and even dazzling plays, and it would look well described in detail in a newspaper, but time prevents this being done. Probably the most spectacular stunt was pulled off early in the second half when Lowell essayed to make a forward pass of the ball to one of its ends. Floyd Meyers was playing full back and saw the ball coming and in-

tercepted it. He pulled it down from the blue sky and a moment later his long legs were measuring the distance to the goal line which he crossed after a 30 yard run.

Morgan, Elder, Kirk, Porter and Meyers made run after run of from 10 to 60 yards, and while Lowell showed individual form, they were unable to break up the perfect interference for the ball carrier and the game went Rensselaerwards most decisively. The first half the score stood only 5 to 0; Porter having made a touch down and Morgan having failed to kick the goal. Rensselaer had much the better of the half but no one dreamed that the second half .would prove their superiority so decisively. However, the second half Rensselaer made 6 touch downs and Morgan kicked 5 goals, all in 16 minutes. The time of halves was 20-16. Touch downs, Morgan 2; Meyers 2; Porter 1; Elder 1; Kirk L Goals, Morgan 5. Referee and umpire, alternating halves, Frank Hunt and Brace Hardy.