Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-30
Football Casualties Of 1907.

The Chicago Tribune, which devotes
Imore attention to statistics than any
other newspaper in the country anu
Whose compilations are usually re-
garded as accurate enough for purposes
of comparison and comment year Dy
Iyear, has prepared table showing the
football casualties of the season of 1907.
This table shows that II players have
Iheen killed and SO more or less seriously
Injured. The number of deaths was
1.-The same as last year while the SER
Iiously injuries last year were just few
lmore. 1903 In 1905 the deaths were 10
land the serious injuries 1877. In 1905.
lit will be remembered, the game was
Iplayed under what are now called the
old rules, and SO the smaller number Of
deaths and injuries during the past two
wears are regarded as one result of tn"
more open game which has been played
lduring these seasons as a result of the
revision of the rules.
| While any deaths and injuries result
ing from participating in a popular
sport are much to be regretted and de-
i plored, and while IL deaths and So ser
| ious injuries sound like a formidable
total vet we are confident that could a
Icomparison be made with baseball
which is not usually looked upon as a
trough or dangerous sport. the result
would not be at all unfavorable to the
great autumn game. OF course the
number of deaths from football is much
smaller than that resulting yearly from
lskating. canoeing, automobiling. and
other popular forms of whole
some outdoor exercise which might
be mentioned. There is no way
Iof getting at the exact num-
Der of young men who have participant
ed in football during the past season
lany more than there is the number par
Iticipa,ing in baseball ana the other
lsports mentioned, but certainly it
mounts FAR into the thousands.
In looking over the totals prepared
Iby the Chica go Tribune we find that of
1.-THE II deaths resulting from football
lonly one was in New England and all
but two were in the West. The New
England fatality occurred at Hanover,
IN. H., where a player upon The Nor
lwich University eleven was 50 badly
Iininra1 in n game with DartmOuti Il
THAT he died ~ a hospital a few days
later. In this connection it may be
lsaid that the unfortunate young man
HAD been sick and was urged by his
physician and friends not to play, but
Insisted on doing so with the fatal re-
lsult mentioned. His case was not UNI
| like others which could be found in GO
ling over the football causalties Of the
season. Several others Of those killed
) were young men playing upon lOca
/, leleyenS, players unframed and physical
!, ly unfit for such vigorous work as the
great gridirOn game demands. One OF
| the deaths was that Of a Utah boy l:
wears Old and three others were of boys
| is years old and under The Norwich
; University student mentioned arc
, player on the Worcester, Ohio, Univer
sity team were the only college player:
: upon the list. The others, if we ma,
l judge from the statistics given. wer;
, lyOunS men who had no business at al
in the game.
: In the list of SO seriously injured
I, lplayers as published in the Tribune. on
r ly one halls from New England. Thi
is Newhall, the Harvard quarterback
l., who, we are told suffered of a con
! icussion of the brain in the game will
e Dartmouth. AS this young man playet
: through the whole of the hard gam
v with Yale, a week after the Dartmouth
s game and is now attending to hi
classroom duties the injury can hardi.
:, be regarded as very serious matter
:, This instance goes far to shake one
faith in the table of "seriOuS injuries
IpreDared BY the Tribune