The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-09
MANY DEATHS
FROM FOOTBALL
Popularity Wanes Because of
increasing Fatalities.

\ EW YORK, Nov. Five deaths and
IN scores Of serious injuries, with the
big games still to be heard from,
are the record of football so far this sea-
son. Besides, two have recently died as
the result Of injuries received in football
games in former seasons.
From all over the country come por-
tents Of the rising tide of popular indig-
nation and increasing unpopularity of the
game as it is now played yet there are
no signs that the men who lay down the
rules of play have had their eyes opened
10 realizing sense of the disrepute into
which the game seems certain to fall IN
less radical change in the rules is made
at once.
In nearly all the instances that have
been reported the mass plays, in which
players pile on top of one another with
out the least regard for the fate of the
unfortunates who are at the bottom OF
and injuries. Were these mass plays
eliminated, or a rule laid down modifying
The play in some manner in this respect,
the dangers of the game would be so
much reduced as TO be hardly worth con-
sider1ng, say the experts.
FarnSWOrth, for the cadets. was hurt,
but he refused to quit the field Wilhelm
was compelled to give place to Rafferty,,
and a few minutes later Farmer got into
the game, Bowerman retiring" is the
casualty report of the game on Saturday
between Yale and West Point.
Fifth Victim of the Season.
The fifth victim of football for the sea-
son died on saturday. Harry Devine,
promising school boy of BayOnne, n. J.,
had an arm cut i'll a scrimInage. Septic
poisoning set in and the boys death fol-
when one player was stabbed by another
at a game in Mount Vernon. cannot Of
course. be charged to football
Harry Jordan of Sioux Pals, S. D.. was
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Hartford, Conn. This boy was the Only
support of a widowed mother.
In a practice game at Transfer, Pa,
on oct. Il, William Martin was so seri-
ously injured that he died few hours
At staunton, his. Edward Schmidt was
killed. With six minutes to play, and
the ball on the forty-yard line, Schmidt
Was given the ball, and made twenty
yards before he was downed. When the
other players extricated themselves from
the tangie, schmidt was still on the
ground, turning his head from side to
side He died before physician ar
rived.
Headed by their captain, the members
of the Staunton eleven marched down the
field. pulled up the goal posts and burned
them. adding their sweaters and football
suits to the flames
Had Neck Broken.
On the same day, George McCIurg, a
substitute on the jamestown, N Y,
eleven, had his neck broken in a game
school.
As a result of the injuries he received in
a football game several years ago, Max
Henry of Chicago died three weeks ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Noble of 1Oi
Steuben street, Brooklyn. are confident
that their son, the Rev Edward j. No
bic, pastor of a Presbyterian church in
Magraw, n. Y, who died on Saturday,
met death as a result of injuries received
a few years ago on the football field.
These are the fatalities. The casual
ties, such as broken limbs and the like
are too numerous to be taken up separ-
ately. Captain Herman of Harvard was
out of the game for several days a
month ago. In the scrimmage between
scrub teams at Cornell on Sept. 13 Tyde-
man, a brother Of the right end on the
university eleven, had a shoulder dislo-
Gated, and Foote, a promising candidate
for tackle, had his nose broken
De Witt, Netterlein and Mum of
Princeton have had 10 retire to the side
lines several times, Budke and Kafer
both had collar bones broken on Oct 26
Henry's spine was injured the same day
and TOOker had three teeth knocked out
Joseph Howard, New Haven boy Il
years old, was picked up after a scrim-
mage on Oct. IA with a broken leg. Cap
tain Chadwick, Hare and Neal of Yale
with injured knees. Snyder, one of Cor
nelI's best candidates for haifback, had a
knee injured.
Hit in Stomach.
Captain Cummings of the Pennsylvania
State college eleven was hit in the Dit
of the stomach in a game with Yale and
compelled 10 retire. Captain Weeks of
the University of Michigan had one OF
his legs scratched by spike in a game
a couple OF weeks ago and blood poi
soning has set in Wickoff and Morris
of Syracuse university both have had
arms broken
In a recent game between the Omaha
Medical college and the University of
South Dakota three players had limbs
broken. one was knocked senSeless, the
umpire was knocked down and trampled
on and nearly every member of both
elevens received more or less serious in
juries.
DR.. John Hedges, a University of Penn
sylvania coach, had an arm broken in
practice while showing one of the men
how to tackle. George c. Bird, jr., a
member of company K. Second regiment
n. G. n. J., was injured in a game at
East Orange on Oct. .. DR.. Hedges was
taken home unconscious.
And so the list runs on. with the big
games stin TO be heard FROM