Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-10-14
LIST FOOT BALL FATALITIES.
A RECORD KEPT OF THE PAST
FORTY-FIVE YEARS.
The Dead And Injured Persons Who
Played In The Great Ma
tional Game.

/ President Roosevelt's attitude in
vigorously protesting against brutality
in football playing has caused stil
and a rigid investigation is being
made to ascertain the deaths and in.
| juries which have resulted from this
favorite sport.
| Forty-fve deaths and hund reds of
serious injuries is. the record of foot.
ball for the last five years. Hardly a
single game has been played during
| which it has not been necessary to
carry one or more of the players from
| the field. In almost every instance
the death or injury was due directly
to the heavy mass plays against which
President Roosevelt and the country
at large are protesting so vigorously.
But in the big college games alone
the list of injuries is large enough to
prove interesting, showing, as it does.
10 legs and IA collar bones broken in
four years of play for a brief six
weeks each, TO say nothing of four
skulls factuTed, five spines injured
four shoulders dislooated and couple
of broken noses. One player got his
neck broken without its causing his
death.
OF the 45 who gave their lives to
football nearly every death may be
traced to the unnecessary rough
ness" against which Mr.. Roosevelt
has protested. Picked up unconscious
from beneath a mass of other players,
it was generally found that the victim
had been kicked in the head or stom-
ach so as TO cause internal injuries or
conoussion of the brain, which sooner
or later ended life.
Sixteen died as a result of internal
injuries, four from broken necks, six
from conclusion of the brain, eight
from broken backs, three from paraly-
sis, two from heart failure, one from
lockjaw, one from blood poisoning,
due to a cut received in game; one
from hemorrhages and two from men
ingitis, induced by spinal injuries
suffered in play
1t is true that this death list in.
cludes tine names of none of the play.
ers on the teams of the leaders in foot
ball, but not a season goes by in which
the best trained play ers are not serious
ly hurt. As rule, the players who
are killed were on minor teams or not
themselves sufficiently hardened to
endu the strain of the game
OF the big elevens Ellis, of Harvard,
for instance, in 1900 was out after the
game with West Point. Dewitt,
Princeton's big guard, had to be taken
out of the game for weeks at a time
because of injuries. Roper and Davis,
two of the Orange and Blacks most
promising players, went out with
strained ligaments in practice play
Perry Hale, Yale's big fullback in
that year, hurt both his knee and
ankle seriously before the big games
were played.
Wiley and Burke, of Princeton. two
promising candidates, were put out
in 1901 with broken collar bones, and
Mills, Princeton's giant guard, h ad
the ligaments of his ankle broken in
the Cornell game of 1901. In practice
that year such a seasoned player as
Wilhelmi, Yales halfback, had TO be
carried off the field with a wrenched
knee which kept him out of the game
for days, while Soper and Andrews,
Yale's substitute halfbsck and guard,
were internally injured. After the
game with Harvard De Saulles, of
Yale, had to be taken to Boston hos
pital.
Tyndeman aud Foote, of Cornell,
were put out of the game in 1903
with a dislocated shoulder and a
broken nose. Williams, Carlisle's cap
tain, had his spine seriously hurt in
the game with Virginia in 1902
Thorpe and Talberts, of Columbia,
bad collar bone and ankle broken in
the Yale game of 1908. Turner, of
Brooklyn, and Lawrence. of Bayshore,
two promising candidates for varsity
positions, were put out last year, one
with strained back and the other with
a dislocated knee. Twitchell, of Hart
ford, substitute quarterback for Yale,
had his spine badly hurt Brill, Har-
wards star tackle, had to leave the
line, when he had been depended
upon to hold Hogan, Yales tackle,
and an Xray showed that the bones of
his shoulder we're shattered
Already this season Hollenback, Of
the University of Pennsylvania,
promising candidate for left end, had
his leg broken above the ankle.
Squires, the big tackle of Harvard, has
broken wrist, and Pierce. the right
guard. a broken thumb. Foster, the
left halfback, had two ribs smashed
in Saturdays s game with University
of Maine, and Guild is laid up with
a broken collarbone, received the first
day.he went into the scrimmage. Cap
tain Hurley injured his kneecap some
days ago and is out of the game for
probably another week.
And all of the big games and most
of the games of lesser importance are
yet to be played.