Waterbury Democrat., 1902-12-03
ON THE GR|D|RON.
Fatalities and Accidents During
the Season just Closed.

Only q Part1al LlSC, Let LHc NuAiO0A
Surprising Twelve Men Killed and
I Seyenty-Eight Injured No Record
| Kept Of Minor Accidents None
Killed in Big Games, But Many In
jured.
Since the first football team lined up
/ this year, about September 10, twelve
1 men have been killed and seventy
eight injured more or less seriously.
An average. Of about one lad day
4 dead or MANNED is the record OF the
1 game for the season of 1902.
/ The vast majority Of the dead and
| injured were members of minor teams
who, by reason of their unframed con-
/ dition, were more susceptible to injury
than the men of the big universities.
| But members of the big teams were
not exempt. There were no deaths
among the players of the great 'varsi-
ties but men of Yale, Harvard, Cor
nell, Columbia and Princeton suffered
broken bones. The armor- plate that
the trainers put on their players pro-
| tect them to a certain extent, but no
padding can protect mans arm or
neck when he lies across another mans
heavy shoe while atop of him twenty
other men pile and scramble.
Bones crack, tendons stretch and
sometimes vertebrate break and all is
lover.
1t is in the mass plays that the bones
are broken and the fatal injuries occur.
Ankles are sprained and noses broken
in the open field work now and then,
| wi 10 Iny.
portunfty for his dirty work when the
runner is alone.
There are in this country about TO-
| 600 football teams. including colleges,
schools, athletic clubs and minor or
CARNATIONS. A conservative estimate
places the members of each team at
| twenty-five The result of 25O, 900 BOYS
playing rough game every day for
eight days must of necessity be acct
dents and deaths, but the record this
year surpasses that of previous years
by many injuries.
The list as given below, however, is
not complete one, as it would be al
most impossible to keep an account of
all the serious and fatal accidents that
have happened in football contests this
season. Right here in the state of
Connecticut there We're innumerable
accidents of all kinds and it is safe to
| say that the LIST given below does not
| give one-third Of the fatalities or acct
dents that have happened this season.
The following is the list:
| ."~.. The Dead
| Sept 25-Sioux Falls. S. D.. Harry
Jordan. Sioux Falls: internal injuries.
Oct 12-Chicago, NJ. Ell. Fleischer, de-
pressed skull .
Oct 1s-Hartford. Conn, G. r. eager,
| broken spine. s..-.
Oct 1S-Sharon. Pa, w. Martin, Shar-
| on: concussion of the brain.
| Oct 25-Staunton, III, e. Schmidt in
/ ternally injured. -
Oct 25-Jamestown, n. Y. G.. Nc
Clurg, Jamestown High school; broken
neck. -. s ~
Nov Knoxville. Tenn, w. Cole,
Tennessee Deaf and Dumb college;
fractured skull. :.
! Nov 1-Bayonne, N. T., Harry De
vine, injured arm. blood poisoning.
Nov 4-Chicago, Fred Carton; grand
stand collapsed; died three days later.
Nov 5-Bayonne, n. J., w. A. Al
brecht; broken spine; died three days
4 later.
| Nov 9-Newark, n. J., Rudolph
Klett; internally injured.
Kinney; concussion of the brain.
The Injured.
i Sept 13-Ithaca. N. Y. Tydeman
Cornell; dislocated shoulder.
4 Sept Eaglesmere. Pa, B. w. Col
Inns. u. of p: broken nose.
Sept 22-Ithaca. n. Y. Hupt, Cor
nell: dislocated shoulder.
, Sept Philadelphia. Il. Smith, G.
M. T. S.; broken collar bone.
Sept Newcastle, Pa. Davis. West
minister college: fractured kneecap.
Sept 30-Port1and, Ore, Harry Rock
well: internally injured
Oct 2-Manayunk, Pa, L. Gallagher
fractured skull.
Oct 2-Villa Nova, Pa f.. Norman
Villa Nova preparatory; fractured col
lar bone.
I. Oct 2-Easton, Pa, Launt, Lafayette
dislocated shoulder
Oct p Richmond, Ind, Joseph futile
badly hurt
Oct 3-Des Moines, Ia, Glenn Hun
ter probably fatally.
Oct Woodbury.. N. j., H. Hagg
Cedarwood broken leg.
Oct 4-Martinburg, w. v, Benjamin
Thompson; probably fatally
Oct 11-New York, w. Bassetta
broken collar bone.
Oct Bellefonte. Pa. O'Rourke
Villa Nova college; two ribs broken.
Oct 13-New Haven, Conn, 3. How
ard; broken leg.
Oct Philadelphia, J. Hedges, u
of p; broken arm.
Oct 15-Villa Nova, Pa. Noonan Vii
; la Nova preparatory: two ribs broken
Oct 15-Omaha. Neb. Newcomb, Uni
versity of South Dakota; broken shout
der blade.
Oct ~ Omaha, Neb. Thompson
! University of South Dakota; broker
rib
Oct 15-Omaha. Neb, Hanson. Uni
versity of South Dakota; broken leg.
Oct Philadelphia, NJ. Cauffman
Central high school; broken leg.
Oct 18-Danville, Ky. III. Check, an
kle broken; HUXLEY, collar bone broken
Harrington. broken hand.
Oct Philadelphia, Baird, Univer
sity of Pennsylvania: broken hand.
Oct 18-Hyattsville. Md, A. B. Dun
bar; broken leg.
Oct Brooklyn, Clements, u. S.
Kearsarge; broken leg.