The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-01-04

call any such meeting I'm in favor OF
anything that will take the dangerous
features out Of the game, but I'm not
going to start it. There will be objec-
tlonable features in the game until the
| playing rules are revised"
| In President Eliot's university nine
teen men, including Theodore Roose-
welt, Jr., received injuries, running the
gamut from battered ears and fatten-
eel noses to fractured arms and legs.
PRESIDENT Wilson Of Princeton ex-
pressed himself in sympathy with any
revision of rules that will make foot
ball less dangerous. Princetons rec
ord OF casualties for the season COM
prised six men, the most serious injury
Delng to c. Brown, 1908, whose collar
bone was broken in practice.
Although Wisconsin university's team
escaped With one serious injury, tbs
captain, Vanderboern, having his cheek
bone fractured and elbow dislocated.
Its president, G.. FL. Van Hise, declares
In telegram as being willing to as
sist in reforming football, but he does
not want the game abolished.
President Schurman of Cornell said
that he had told President Roosevelt
at the recent conference in Washing
ton that he favored eliminating brutal
| ity from the game of football. He will
aid in the University of Pennsylvania
movement. Five of Cornell's men wers
hurt during the season.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of
that the game has outgrown it's inten-
tons. sit is too highly developed" he
said "Mr. Camp and others among
he self appointed committee on rules
nave promised reforms, but they have
never come. Now we shall have to re-
wise the rules ourselves"
Hamilton college, at Utica, n. Y,
which has had no serious accident on
the gridiron this season, is in favor Of
strict enforcement of the rules Of the
game, so as to do away with brutality.
President Stryke said: Il am willing
my men shall take chances on the grid
iron if the game is kept clean. | am
In sympathy with the q. of p effort"
At Brown university, Providence, r.
l., it was stated that the season was
remarkably free from accidents, only
one man, Reynolds, being hurt His
ankle was broken early in the season.
After the death of Vernon Wise Of
the Oak Park High school, Chicago, the
faculty forbade further games during
the season Wise's death was caused,
1t is stated, by brutality of the most
vicious sort, he being pounded and
kicked as he lay PROSTATE.
The death of John Summergilt OF
Franklin college, Chester, Pa, was the
result of his being deliberately kicked
| in the stomach. He started to walk
home from the game and dropped dead.
The Columbia college faculty are
much exercised over the harsh treat
ment accorded their men by the Penn
sylvania players the other day. They
are talking of abolishing the game at
Columbia. Douglas Carter, Columbia's
fullback, is in a private sanitarium in
New York as a result Of a scrimmage.
He is suffering from the rare injury Of
|
Won Saltza of the same team Is nursing
q fracture of the foot.
The Chicago Tribune recently re-
ceived the following kilograms from
presidents of universities and colleges
in all parts Of the country in reply to
requests for comments on the large
football mortality and accident list this
year:
President Harper Of Chicago universe
ty was too ill to express his views on
the question. In his place statement
was obtained from Professor Smaller
Matthews, dean Of the divinity school,
who said:
"Football today is social obsession-
boy killing, education prostituting,
gladiatorial sport It teaches virility
and courage, but so does war. do not
know what should take it's place, but
the new game should not require the
services Of physician, the mainte-
nance Of a hospital and the celebration
Of funerals"
President Cavanaugh Of Notre Dame
thinks football too good a sport to be
abolished entirely, but advises that
since most accidents occur among IN
seasoned players it should be done
away with in the high schools.
| President Hopkins Of Williams col
lege says the game has cost more than
it is worth and is doomed unless it can
be changed radically, but ito take all
the struggle and peril out of it would
| Just about spoil It."
| President MacLean of Iowa State
university advises a conference ID
which representatives of secondary
| schools should be included.