Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1909 — COLLEGEVILLE. [ARTICLE]

COLLEGEVILLE.

F. Dickman has returned from Sedalia, Mo., and resumed ids' studies. He had been called home to attend the funeral of his sister. November the first was All Saints’ Day, and it being a holy day there were neither classes nor studies. Several of the Fathers visited different cities in the state and delivered the sermons for the occasion. Father Lear 'conducted the services at the college. The following visitors enjoyed the college hospitality during the last week: Judge and Mrs. E. P. Hammond and daughter, Nina, of Lafayette; Mr. S. Hipskind, Wabash; Mr. and Mrs. W. Dwyer, Dunn; P. Pohl and J. Fleming, Chicago. Basket ball is beginning to attract attention. The call has been issued for representative tryouts. These is but one member of last year’s fast quintet left over, and the make up of the new team will be watched with interest, as they will have a difficult task to keep up last years’ championship reputation.

"You can’t tell from the looks of a frog how far he'll jump,” sa’id the wise ones after last Sunday’s foot ball game between S. J. C. and Rensselaer. The result was a surprise to everyorie. The college lads hardly expected to win, and their expectations were not based on a large hospital list, but on the superior weight of their opponents. Speed, however, made up for the lack of weight, materially assisted by our doughty little captain’s generalship. Both teams played fast clean ball from the first whistle sound to the last. It took the college lads ten minutes of play to race McArdle forty-five yards and across Rensselaer’s goal line. Near the end of the first spasm T. Kennedy was pushe4 over for the second touchdown, and the half closed with a score of eleven to nought in favor of the college lads. The teams worried through the second half without obtaining jany results. Once the college goal line was in great danger, but the collegians braced, held for downs and Frallch kicked the ball Into safe territory. The game ended with the ball near the center of the field.