Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-21

Here are the proofs of the splendid sue
cess Of the new plays: ,,,t, q wrencbed
shoulder. Cutten's bad knee has succumbed
to the onslaughts of Sanford football"
and Cadwalader viii be out o. OF n, the game
shoulder. 1t was feared that his collar
bone was broken, but instead the lisaments
of the shoulder. are twisted. BenJamin,s
shoulder is also In bad shape, and Browns
knee is lame.
This great Sanford mass play" recalls
patent swivel howitzer''' introduced by the
general of the Mackerel brigade during The
civil war. This gun had two muzzles. and
when touched off in the middle revoived
sadRieiy' causing fearful m0rfali's-0h 00'n
Chicago Tribune. October so: While des-
football eleven at Lincoln park yesterday
afternoon ,l6-year-old John o'Brien was
burr buried dn under e pile Of hai !. a dc dozen rinh 9p pom
pie which may prove fatal. The blow
knocked him senseless.
BIB, But as his companions started to rst earry
1t required the combined strength OF six
of his fellow players to hold him. After
otBrien 0 was 1 taken to = his 81 home, SO isedgs.
the head his body was badly bruised in
Young O'Brien's injuries were the result
of ''pilins" on the player who has the ball
by the members of the opposing team.
lC Nv was u Lo lSSS tllah OLA - -
upon him. O'Brien played in the line Of
the Standard Juniors. who were engaged
In a contest, with a scrub eleven, made up
crowd of spectators gathered to watch a
game between two other elevens nearby.
These teams were the MaIshall Hiela q
elevenS. During the contest one OF me
members of the Field team was SO badly
injured that he was carried from the helo.
His name was not ascertained.
A special to the Commercial Advertiser
from Providence, R. l.. says:
h Brown team will not soon recover
fiom its disastrous battle with the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania eleven last Satur-
day. 1t has been found that Hunt. who
drcpped out injured; has 2 broken COLLAR Eiln
be able to play again this season. His loss
will be felt much. for he had developed IN.
to an excellent end: haPgood is r: siGwty
leg. which got another wrench Saturday,
is improving, but much less rapidly than
is comfortable with the game with the
Indians a week and a half away only.
Coach Moyle is having considerable trou-
Bile finding an end to take Hunts place;
Chase. the substitute, has also been lad
ability Of his getting out again. Several
rev men have been tried. but as yet no
strong candidate has appeared.
ward and Wesleyan:
Tcwards the end Of the second half
star game. He was slightly injured. and
first half. while Parker was substituted.
port of the condition of Browns eleven:
The efforts to arrange a game with Dart
mouth were futile. Coach Moyle Is now
new right end. as Hunt and Chase are both
suffering from broken collarbones. :. =.
Melendy Is improving. and will be able 70
take his place at tackle later in the sea-
SON.
In an account of a game at New Haven is
the following:
broken compelled Chicago to rearrange
her team in the second half. =. CAD
wallader's shoulder began to trouble him,
and Post was put in his place.
A dispatch from Cambridge thus tells
tho result on the players Of Harvard's
last game:
peared in the practice to-day. Donald,
Cabot and Swain n zane out ~ lathe to = the h ne S, on
f Sad ones of ; his R ribs era as ea0d IN the 10 9 9ale
game. The injury did not pain him much
Until to-day. A thorough examination will
be made tomorrow.
cen game between the teams of the Uni.
versity of Michigan and the University OF
Reports said the Michigan-Minnesota
game was clean: If It was so, the stand
ard of clean play in the West differs from
that in the East. The most noticeabl.
infraction of the rules was in the piiina
on a player carrying the ball after 1t wa:
down. This is punishable with a penalty
of fifteen yards against the team doint
so. but not once in the game Saturday
On three different occasions Saturday
Halfback Hogg dropped on a Minnesots
necessity for it. Twice he "kneed' tn
Minnesota runner. The excuse was mad'
by the Michigan substitutes that the mai
| mos fr,;p~ 4 - MI u-ifh tho hall n Gtf
not look, in any instance, as though thu!
was the case. In two instances 1t certainl!
was not. for 1t was done as the man wa!
Struggling was plenty on TeetZeIS enc
though 1t was about evenly, divided be
tWsen him ;a'S his opponeiHnt MT and sssr it wa:
Spectators in the club house stand, VIII.
had glasses leveled on the players al
through the game. and who: by the way
igan men slugged continually in ever!
sclimmage.
II is such occurrences as these whicl
cause the charge of brutality to be brough
against the game. And it is play OF thi
sort which must be. stopped in order I
prevent adverse legislation, which will TAX
away from our young men one Of the bes
games known for them: one which devel
ops a player in greater degree than an
other. and makes him a man in ever,
ccurtenance it. Football can be made
: rough, hardy game without these features
their elimination Will not tend 10 effemin
ize the game.
} This is an account of a game at Denver
!, The football game between the teams c
, the East Denver and the West Denve
!; high school students yesterday ended
,, a riot. in which all the players and a coupl
!. OF hundred spectators took part. That n
one was seriously injured was due to tn
, fact that a dozen policemen were sent I
! the scene and dispersed the mobs.
!, The game had been characterized frol
the start by smuggling. Several p!aye!
=. were displaced. and when fraud was chars
. ed against the East Denver team in maxim
, a touchdown a free fight was at once star
, ed. When the police arrived the East Der
yer team had barricaded itself in its dres:
: ing room. and the mob was making de!
\ perate efforts TO break In.
Debasing and Brutnlixing %fiue
The Rev. DIR. James B. Hemingway.
!, Chicago Inter Ocean: There is no sport
/ which the men of educational universiti'
q throughout the country participate to-da
. that ranks in my opinion with football
a debasing and brutaliZing influence.
New York paper lies on my desk as / writ
. and in a telegraphed report from New H
, ven. where the men of Yale are practicin
/ read the following: Chadwick play'
a tackle on the scrub and iamed ms sh9ulde
= Saturday. chamberlain also famed h
Shoulder. and Hine put his out OF joir
o after a pretty run; The latter seems
= have things in the hospital line coming i
= way pretty frequently of late" And tn
: is from one of the leading colleges of Il
world. Truly a deplorable condition
Il are turned into arenas where young M
n delight in torturlng each other.
1 ave witnessed games played by, son
OF the leading men in this field. and ha'
c neen forced to turn away. sickened al
Disguised by the utter want of feelil
shown toward each other by the men "
: Mere Ms4csb taxing q part aecid hn eSe and dea kfoW in /
a football field has been alarmingiy large du