Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-10-29

from brain conclusion received on Yale
field week ago.
George d. Bird. Jr, Of Plainfeld,
is. suffering from brain conclusion
received in game at East
Orange, on Saturday last. He
was playing with the Second regi-
He was playing with. the Second regl-
ment team against the Roseville Fool
ball association. Vreeland Of the lat
ter team had started. to run with the
ball at a critical stage. when Bird
dived through the mass of players and
caught him around the body. Two
Roseyille players dashed upon the pair
with the result that Bird was hurled
to the ground, sustaining brain con-
cussion.
In match game on Saturday be-
tween the Coffeys Of ST Louis and the
Stauntons of Illinois, Edward Schmidt,
of the latter team, was injured inter-
nally and died while being taken to
physicians office. The accident oc-
cident occurred in the first half, with
six minutes to play and the ball on the
forty yard line. Staunton tried for the
right end. Schmidt, the Staunton full
back, was given the ball, and had
made a twenty yard run before being
doWned. When the other players
arose from the scrimmage Schmidt lay
on his back, turning his head from side
to side. The players supposed he was
playing for time and shouted for him
to get back in the game. ST cam"
was his reply. Sim badly hurt. !"
Schmidt indicated that his head was
hurt and gasped: II can't see you any
more. I'm getting dizzy. He died in
a carriage while being hurried to doc
tor. The other members Of the team,
after learning of his death, went out
on the field pulled up the goal posts,
| burned them and added to the fire
their uniforms and sweaters, and an
nounced that there would be no more
/ football in Staunton.
After playing for a few seconds in
a game between Jamestown and Buffa-
10 High school. George McClurg, sub
stitute on the first named team, was
thrown in such way that his neck
was broken, death occurring almost
instantly.
Princeton's eleven received terrible
grueling on Saturday in its match with
Columbia. Two Of the men were put
out for the season with broken collar
bones and others suffered injured
spines and the loss of teeth.
In a recent game between teams Of
the University of South Dakota and
the Omaha Medical college three play
ers sustained broken limbs, one was
knocked senseless. the umpire was
knocked down and trampled on, and
j every member Of both teams received
wounds of various kinds.
Reports from college teams indicate
!! that local infirmaries have more than
their quota of patients from football
injuries.
DR. John Hodges, one of the coaches
of the University of Pennsylvania
] eleven, had his arm broken during
practice ten days ago, and will be in
capacitated for coaching during the re-
mainder of the season. Hedges was
giving the left halfback, Fortiner of
the varsity squad, practical demon
stration of how a halfback should
block an end rush on run around the
end. Fortiner ran at full speed to-
ward Hedges. and when the coach's
arm struck the shin guard on Fortiner's
/ leg there was sharp snap, and sew
eral small bones in the forearm were
/ found to have been crushed.
While there seems to be no way to
escape injury in some form or other,
when playing the game as now II