The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1905-11-02

hundreds of Players Have Also Been
Against which President Roose-
welt Protests - Few Games Played
In Which No One Was Hurt.
That there is good reason for the col
Ace football authorities to eliminate
unnecessary roughness from the game
as advised by President Roosevelt is
shown by the record for only five years.
Forty-fiye deaths and hundreds Of seri-
Gus injuries is the record during that
time. Hardly 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 sc
vigorously, says the New York Herald.
To chronicle all the injuries would re-
Quire the use of thousands of names,
and even then none would be included
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character than the breaking of collar
bone. The mere spraining Of an ankle
is not considered Of sufficient impor-
lance to interest anybody except the
Individual player and perhaps the par
ents.
/ But in the big college games alone
the list Of injuries is large enough to
prove interesting, showing, as it does,
ten legs and fourteen collar bones bro
ken in four years Of play for brief six
weeks each, to say nothing Of four
skulls fractured, five spines injured,
four shoulders dislocated and a couple
of broken noses. One player got his
4 neck broken without its causing his
death.
OF the forty-five who gave their lives
to football nearly every death may be
traced to the Unnecessary roughness"
against which Mr.. Roosevelt has pro
tested Picked up unconscious from
beneath a mass of other players, it was
generally found the victim had been
kicked in the head or stomach so as to
cause internal injuries or conclusion
Of the brain, which sooner or later end
ed life
Sixteen died as 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 q cut received in a game; one from
hemorrhages and two from menin-
gifts, induced by spinal injuries suf-
fered in play.
4 It is true that the death list includes
the names Of none Of the players on
the teams of the leaders In football.
but not season goes by in which the
best trained players are not seriously
hurt AS rule, the players who are
killed were In minor teams or not
themselves sufficiently hardened to en-
idure the strain of the game.
/ But those who maintain that the
game is in danger Of being buried be-
meath an avalanche Of popular disap-
prevail have plenty Of evidence OH
which to argue their point that the
very best players-are In constant peril,
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injuries which may weaken them for
life.
Ellis of Harvard, for instance, In
1900 was out after the game with West
Point. De Witt Princeton's big guard,
had to be taken out Of the game for
weeks at time because of injuries.
Roper and Davis, two of the orange
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went out with strained ugaments 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, had the
ligaments Of his ankle broken in the
Cornell game Of 1901. In practice that
year such a seasoned player a. Will
helmi, Yale's halfback. had to be car
t1ed OF the field with q wrenched knee
which kept him out Of the game for
days, while 6oper and Andrews Yale's
substitute halfback and guard, were
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with Harvard De saulles Of Yale had
b be taken to Boston hospital. s
i Tyndeman and Foote OF Cornell were
put out Of the game In 1903 with dis
located shoulder and broken nose.
Williams, Carlisle's captain, had his
spine seriously hurt In the game with
Virginia In 1902 Thorpe and Talberts
Of Columbia had collar bone and an
kle broken in the Yale game of 1908
Turner Of Brooklyn and Lawrence Of
Bayshore, two promising candidates
Tor varsity positions, were put out last
year, one with strained back and the
other with dislocated knee. Twitchell
of Hartford, substitute quarterback for
Yale, had his spine badly hurt Brill,
Harvard's star tackle, had to leave the
line, when he had been depended upon
to hold Hogan, Yale's great tackle. and
an x ray showed that the bones Of his
shoulder were shattered
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