The record-union., 1893-12-28
DEATHS FROM FOOTBALL.
Great Britain's Appalling List Of
Fatalities.
Twenty-Five Deaths Last Year - An
Array of Casualties Which Stamps
Football as the Most Dangerous of
Sports-An Alarming Death Roll.

annually turns up at this season OF the
year-to wit: is football dangerous ?-may
be emphatically answered in the affirma-
tive, and furthermore, the reply may be
still further emphasized by the easily sub
stantiated statement that it is far and
sway the most dangerous sport known to
modern times.
There is no possible doubt that Death
hovers over the football fields of to-day
as the vulture hovers over the battlefelds
In the East, and with like certainty that
the strife will bring him many victims.
Many times he Is baked, and the manned
and wounded are saved from his clutches
by surgical and medical skill, but when
the season is at an end he never has a
blank record, and the present season
promises to be the best he has ever known
In this country.
THIS SEASONS FATALITIES.
Already the Herald has chronicled the
deaths of three football players since the
beginning OF the current month.
From Delavan, Wis, there came the
news on the 9th that j. L. Peterson, a
young man playing in the eleven OF an
institution against a village team, had
broken his neck in a ''scrlmmage," and
on the 1lth, Adds Herrold, the athletic
director of the Richmond, Ind, Y. NJ. G..
A., was killed in match between the Y.
Nj. &. a. team and team representing
Franklin College. He. too, met his death
IN the fierce struggle of scrimmage, and
was found, when the players disentangled
themselves, with both his breast bone
and skull fractured.
On the same day young Hugh Saussa of
"a University place, in this city, broke
his neck while playing for the College OF
the City of New York against the Eliza
beth, n. j., Athletic Club on the latter's
grounds. He was running with the ball
when he slipped and fell, striking the
ground at such an angle that the spinal
cord was snapped.
But it is not on this side of the Atlantic
that one must look tor the most emphatic
condemnation of the game, if cOndemna-
ton is to follow the proof of its unques-
tionable danger. Here the game is as yet
too young and confined to such COM
paratiVely few players that the statistics
of deaths and accidents more or less Sc
we're have not yet attracted public atten-
ton. In England, or rather in Great
Britain and Ireland, where the game is as
common as baseball in the United States,
and where almost every village of re-
spectacle size has its football team, the
record of football fatalities is startling
and the record of badly injured players
enough to make the reader vince when it
is spread before him in all its painful de-
tails.
DEATHS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
First, as to the deaths of last season.
which lasted from September lst until the
last of March.
An English gentleman, who has for
several years kept as close a record as
possible by carefully reading the news
papers. has compiled what he calls ''the
butchers bill'' of the season, and records
twenty-six deaths. Here is the list as he
gives it:
September 17th-During the Harrow
gate VS.. Stanningly match two players
named Hutchinson and Hoggas came
into violent collision. Hutchinson was
picked up unconscious and died early on
the following day from an internal in
jury.
October 1st-While playing for the
Upper Norwood team at that place Sidney
George Norwood fell to the ground and
was picked up dead. The cause was
rupture OF the heart. On the same day
w. s. Pawson, full back of the Westhoe
team, while playing against Durham
City, had his spine fractured while tack
ling rival player. He fingered until
January I'd, when he died.
October Sth-William Wallace, playing
in match at Aberdeen, Scotland, was
Qleu
two days later, after suffering terrible
agony.
October 14th-Joseph Aspen, right end
of the Darwen team, was kicked in the
stomach while playing against the New
ton Heath Reserves, and died a few days
later.
October 15th-In match between two
scrub teams, played al Kings Heath.
Benjamin Summerfield attempted to side
kick at the ball. He missed and fell to
the ground, writhing with pain, having
badly twisted his intestines. An hour
later he was dead. the 1Sctors who were
present being unable to give him any re-
lief
October 29th-Herald Stephenson was
kicked in the thigh while playing at
Brookfield School, Wigton, and died a
week later. a young man living in Jar
row had his spine so severely injured
while playing in practice game that he
died soon afterward.
November 6th-Walter Henry Handy
was injured internally while being
tackled during a match between Felix
stowe Fort and Ipswich Orwell Works.
On the following day he died.
A MINISTER KILLED IN PLAY.
November 26th-Two fatal accidents.
Guy Adeane, a Haileybury College stu
dent, killed by kick in the stomach, re-
", u. III
Knight died of fractured skull while
playing for the Bromsgrove team against
Worcester, at Worcester. His head is re-
ported to have come in contact with one
of the Worcester teams knees"
December 2d.-At Turfmoor, Burnley.
young man named Nelson died Of sex
haustion" during very exciting and
rough match between two village elevens.
January 2d.-During the match be-
tween the Hexam Excelsior and Hayden
Bridge teams, +. Henderson was 80
severely trodden upon after falling upon
the ball'' that he never recovered con-
sciousness, and died few days after
ward.
January 1Sth.-WiIliam Knowles died
at Bolton, the result OF collapse of his
health, brought about by his having re-
ceived "a series of very ugly falls during
the previous weeks football playing
January 26th.-JoSeph Kirk, while
running with the ball in practice game
lplace not given), was tackled, fell and
broke his neck, dying instantly. The
Coroner absolyed his tackIer from blame.
On the same day John O'Riley died at
Liverpool from internal injuries caused
by fractured ribs received while playing
IN scrub game in one of Liverpool's
suburbs.
ANOTHER FATALITY AT BOLTON.
February 1st-At Bolton where Will
lam Knowles, mentioned under date of
January 18th, died another fatal accident,
attributable to football, was recorded.
While running with the ball James Ros-
tron was tackled, and in falling was
hurled violently against wall. He was
terribly injured, severed bones being
broken, and lived but few hours
February 2d-In a college match at
Fermoy boy named Newton fell from
exhaustion while being chased by the
rival eleven and ''died immediately"
February 4th-Walter Daniel Mahew
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