The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-05
THREATENS TO DROP GAME
HARVARD DEMANDS RADICAL
 CHANGES IN FOOTBALL.

If Rules Committee Does Not Go Far
 Enough Crimson Will Go It AIone--
 Not Opposed to Game as a Sport but
 Only as 1t Was Played During the
 Last Season.
 Cambridge, Jan. 4.-Professor H. &. White, chairman of the Harvard ath- letic committee, made an unofficial statement tonight regarding Harvard'a 2 attitude on football Professor White stated that if the action of the national football rules committee is not radical enough, Harvard will go it alone Har- ward is not opposed to football as a sport, he said, but only as it was played during the past season. The Harvard committee will probably take some rad- ical action within the next two weeks. If the game is changed, it will be play ed in Cambridge next fall, If it cannot be changed, Harvard will not play in tercollegiate matches.
 Professor White said: Football as it was played last fall we are opposed to, of course. I cannot speak officially or for the whole committee, but think I am voicing the sentiments of the com mittee when state that
 We are not opposed to football as a sport; we are only opposed to the way it was played during the past season. Our committee will probably take some radical action within two weeks, which will show where Harvard stands, as far as the committee in charge of the ath- letics of the university goes.
 We are not experts on football, but we have the advice of experts, and, therefore, know what we think should be done for the game.
 If the action of other institutions is not radical enough, according to our thinking, we will be forced to go it alone, no matter what happens. do not think this will be necessary, how ever for we know by private confer encese that the other universities feel as we do about football
 Ut is premature to say that any mem- Der of the committee will resign if Harvard albolishes football. We do not know what the action of the corpora ton will be, but as we are delegated to supervise sports, naturally we expect to take the first action.
 "The special committee of graduates to formulate rules is not official, and they can do no more than suggest. We are very glad to receive their sugges- tions, or of any one else who has any, thing really worth while to propose.
 ''The suggestions must De radical whatever they are We also invite the cooperation of any university"
 A report On the injuries sustained by members of the Harvard football squad during the past season appeared to-day in the Boston Medical and Surgical 1 Journal. The report was made by Drs E. H. Nichols and Homer B. Smith who were in charge of the squad and 1 is based on written statements of the players and clinical record The phy- sicians state that there were 145 injur- ies serious enough to keep the players out of the game for a day or more. Nc mention is made of minor injuries.
 In addition, a squad of 150 men re- ported 260 injuries to them in previous years The number of injuries received in games and in practice was propor tionately about the same, but a grea i proportion occurred in the pile whiel formed after every scrimmage. Al though there is no way of determining whether the number of injuries wer' more numerous this year than in form CT years, Dr. Nichols is personally O the opinion that they were not unusu ally great during the past season.