The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-12-01
GRIDIRON
CASUAL TIES.
List of Those Killed and
Wounded in Football This
Season.
NINETEEN FATALITIES
RECORD OF NO PREVIOUS YEAR
SO CLEARLY DEMONSTRATED
THE BRUTALITY OF THE
AMERICAN GAME.

IdH bhUtNALIII Of IHE
AMERICAN GAME.
The close of the 1905 football season
shows an increase in the number of
deaths and accidents. as compared with
former years. The list of fatalities all.
ready totals up nineteen, while more
than 100 cases of victims who sustained
serious injuries have been recorded. The
big colleges have more than their share
this year, Pennsylvania being particular
ly unfortunate with three broken limbs.
Among the deaths is recorded, for the
first time in the history of the game
that of girl, Miss Bernadette Decker,
the eighteen-year-old daughter of Judge
Edward Decker, at Eckhardt, Md. She
died from injuries which resulted in a.
disease resembling malignant peritonitis.
A list Of the dead and injured follows:
October 5-Howard G. Montgomery Of
Farmville, Va, student Hampden-Sid-
ney College, Richmond. Va. paralysis of
the spine.
October 8--John s. Summersgill, aged
twenty-one years, Franklin football team,
at Eddystone, Pa, internal hemorrhages
October 19-James E. Bryan, Canyon
City, COL, butted in pit of stomach.
October 22-James q. Bryan, Donde-.
70. twenty-seven years, Willimantic foot.
ball team, Jewett City, Conn. cerebral
hemorrhage, superinduced by poor phys
ical condition.
October 24-Scott Kerr. twenty-four
years, at Newcastle, Pa, concussion of
brain.
November William ]. Kelley fifteen.
years. at Buffalo. fracture of the skull.
November miss Bernadette Decker,
eighteen years, daughter of Magistrate
Edward Decker, Democratic leader, at
Eckhardt, near Cumberland, Nd; mala-
dy resembling malignant peritonitis.
November 2-Leslie Wise, fourteen
years, at Milwaukee. Wis. internal in-
juries.
November 3-verner Wise, seventeen
years. Oak Park High School. Chicago
Ill. head crushed.
November Clarence Won Bokelen
Santa Clara High School, San Jose,
CAL. kicked at base of brain, fracturing
skull.
November 6-James Squires, aged
sixteen, Alton High School, Alton, Ill,
kicked on knee, resulting in blood poison
ing.
November 9-Horatio T. Knight,
Springfield, Mass, freshman, Phillips
Exeter Academy, at Exeter, N. H.. men
ingitis.
November 1O-Herman G.. Norgaard,
member High School team, at Council
Bluffs, Ia, abscess of the brain.
November 11-John Meehan, at Pac-
ific Grave, CAL, skull fractured.
November 19-G. G. Ficken, fullback
Southern Athletic Club juniors, at New
Orleans, La, struck on head.
November 24Arthur w. Foote, at
Salem, Mass, paralysis.
November 25-Harold f. Moore,
Union College of Ogdensburg, N. Y, at
New York City, conclusion of brain.
November 25-Carl Osborne, at Bel
more. Ind, heart punstured by broken
rib.
September Frank McManus, nine
years old, at Germantown, Philadelphia,
Pa, thigh fractured.
September 13-James Campbell.
Pottsville High School. at Pottsville,
Pa, left shoulder dislocated.
September 16-Ralph Sponagle, Wind
sor F. B. team, at Reading, Pa, fracture
Of right leg.
September 22-Andrew johnson, Ne
dia High School, at Media, Pa, fracture
of collarbone.
September % Nephew, Carlisle Indi-
ans, at Carlisle, Pa, left shoulder broken.
September % Captain vanderboom,
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