The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-22
THE RECORD Of
F00|TB. Il AWFUL u
Forty-fivc Deaths and Hundreds.
81 Serious Injuries Ii, Five
Years Past.
DUE TO HEAVY MASS PLAYS.
Thousands Of Minor Hurts, Of
Which No Record Has
LIVER Been Made.
1sneeial 70 Tho Tin,es- Dispatch.)

Especial to Tho Times Dispatch.)
h NEW yOlaY, Oct. 81 .--Forty-five deaths
nnd hundreds Of serious Injuries IS tne
record Of football for the last flvo years.
during dur s Which, y II has not been necessary
to carry one or more of the PLAYERS from !,
the field. In almost every instance lh nc
heavy mass plays against which Presi.
dent Rooseveit and the country at large
are protesting. so vigorously.
alire tho use OF thousands Of names, and
even then none would be included where
the hurt was OF a less serious charaGter
than the breakg Of collar E bone. on sna
cred OF sufficient Importance to interest,"
anybody except the individual player. and
perhaps his parents.
But.in the. big college games alone g .he
list of injuries Is large enough 70 prove
showing. as 1t does, ten legs
and fourteen collar bones broken IN lo our
to say nothing or four skulls fractured
five spines injured. four shoulders dlslo-
Gated ana Il couple OF broken noses ono
plaSfp g hix d f,s hsek broken w's''ou
OF the forty five VINO gave thcr lives t9
football. nearly every death may % tr Trace,
TO the unnecessary, roug hness. a ~ a,taa
which Mr.. Roosevelt has protested. PicRe1
up unconc!ohs. from beneath q mass 81
other players, It war. generally folnd zindt I
the victim, had been Kicked IN tne ncaa or
or conclusion OF the brain, which soner
or later ended life.
] Sixteen died Ms "a result Of interna! M
}jurIes, four from broken necks. six from
conclusion Of the brain. eight from broken
ba cks, three from paralysis. two from
heart failure. one from lockjaw, one from
blood poisoning. due to g cut rece ~ ~, IN
from meningitis induced by spinal nJur1cs
suffered In play. @s
But those who maintain that ! ne game ls
w. - ,kai ~ nR h
lanche of popular disapproval have plenty
OF evidence on which 10 argue thier point
teat the very bcst. players are IN constant
peril, IL not OF thier lives at least OF re-
ceiNing injuries which may weaken them
Ellis. Of Harvard, for INSTANCE. in 1927 q
De witt. Princeton7s big guard. had 70 be
taken out OF the game for weeks at a time
because OF injuries. Roper and Davis, Two
Of the orange and bla OK s most promls!1s
players, went out with strained ligaments
n practice play Perry Hale, Yala's Dig
full back In that year. hurt both his knee
ana una.e seriously before the big games
Wiley and Burke, OF Princeton; i 70
with broken collar, bones, and Mills.
OF his ankle broken In the Cornell game OF
soned player as Wlheim.a.. Talcs hall
hsd to be carried On xc1 e hm ou W 81
the game for days. while Soper and And;
rews, Yale's substitute half back and
guard were Internally injured. After
ths game with Harvard Pc saulle es,t . q I.
Yale. had to be taken to a Boston hospltal.
Tynde n,an and Foote, OF Cornell, were
put out Of the game II 1ao3 with d,sIi1-
t!1lus Carlisle's captain, had bis spine SER
oysly hurt the gane With vlTSn1a IN
had collar bone and ankle broken In the
Yale game Of 1909 Turner. Of Brooklyn.
Ing candidates for varsity positions. were
put. out last year one with n. strained ll,las
back and the other with a dislocatsd Knee.
Twitchell. Of Hartford, substitute quarter
cacls for Yale. had his spine badly hurt.
Brill. Harvard's star tackle. had to leave
the line. when he had been depended upon
70 hold Hogan, Taie's great tackle. M
an X-ray showed that the bones OF his
shoulder were shattered. q 4 , I.
Already this season, 81 ollenbec OK. OF the
University OF Pennsylvania, y prominent
:andidate for loft end, has had his les
broken above the ankle, And all Of the
oig games and most OF the games OF lesser
Importance are yet to be played.