Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-12-03
Still Fighting.

The Herald is in receipt OF the
following communication from a
football player of the Platteville
Normal, who was deeply aggrieved
at the injustice done him by this
paper in the mention of the Thanks
giving game:
Platteville, Wis, Nov %, 1904
Mr.. Editor: In justice to the normal
football team I would like to have
you publish this letter. The team
that played the Lancaster High School
team at your city last Thursday was
not the Normal team and did not lay
claim to anything other than being a
picked up eleven, as the Lancaster
boys we'll knew. We want to give the
high school boys all the credit that is
coming to them, but they are laboring
under a very great mistake if they
think they can cover themselves with
glory by permitting such mistake,
as appeared in your paper last week,
knowing 1t to be false and it surely
does not reflect any credit upon their
manhood or honor. If they have, in
any dark corner of their brain, the
faintest glimmer of an idea that they
can beat our Normal we should be
very glad to have that ill-starred idea
brought forth and clothed in words.
Our boys stand ready to give them a
game at any time or place. | would
like to say that we were not the Nor
NAL team and would like to have the
mistaken impression given out by the
Lancaster boys corrected. / remain
Yours resp,
G. E. FAwCETT.
The reply of the Lancaster boys
to this epistle is as follows:
Lancaster, Wis, Dec. 2, 1904.
To the Editor:
We wish to correct some statements
made oy G. E. Fawcett, of Platteville,
in his communication published in
this issue of your paper. He says
that the Platteville team was not the
Normal team. If not, why not? They
might fully as we'll have brought their
regular Normal as to have brought
an abnormal aggregation, filed out
with prize fighters and city men. We
understand that some of the regular
team went home for Thanksgiving and
their captain would not come here, SO
they made up their quota with second
Normal and city men, and brought
their pugilist along to help. Mr.. Faw-
cett says something about "dark cor
ners in our brain" Perhaps so we
make no claim to the high degree of
intellect displayed by the elite and
finished product of the Piatteville
State Normal. While we are not in
clined to be boastful, we are and al
ways have been possessed Of con-
vict;on that we can win from any
thing in the way of football team
that halls from Platteville, and we
always will have that conviction. In
the Thursday game we made most of
our gains over, under and through the
Normal men, or those who laid claim
to being Normal men. We do not say
that we can beat the whole Normal,
although in the past our teams have
had TO do just this thing in order to
get at the team proper, but we do say
that we can pile up winning score
on any eleven Normal players they
may care to match against us. Ii the
members of the regular team who
spent Thanksgiving at home are as
dirty set of players as those who
! came here, the fact that they went
home gives them much to be thank
ful for. If the man who has his office
on the Normal steps, and his office
hours from 10 to II p. M, wishes to
know whereon we base our calcutta
tions, let him look at the records:
1899, Lancaster II, Platteville 0; 1901
Lancaster II, Platteville 0; 1902, Lam
caster 5, Platteville 0; 1904, Lancas-
ter II. Platteville 5.
Very respectfully,
The L. I'll. S. Football Team