The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-11-09
FOOTBALL
With the Season Still Young Many Fatal
Accidents Recorded.
FOURTEEN KILLED

hundre0 ana IWenty.elSnC are IN.
iured in Contests-These Casual
ties Have Occurred Despite Chang.
es In Rules to Minimize the
Dangers.
With the football season barely
under way month, death has al
ready claimed fourteen players. de-
spite many changes in the rules
made , in the hope Of lessening the
chances 4of serious injury, says The
Washington Star. The number Of
the injured whose accidents have
been made public in the press dis
patches is more than 12S. Of these
100 have suffered serious hurts.
Many more have been hurt than have
come to public notice. Care is TAX
en- at the universities that as lit
tie news as possible of injuries to
the football teams shall leak out
side the campus. Especially is this
true of the practice games. For that
reason, anything approaching COM
plete list is not possible.
Among those who have died are
Frank Trimble, tackle, at the Univer-
sity of Indiana; Charles Becker, half
back, of the Findlay (Ohio) High
School, who died of injuries received
in scheduled game; Robert Milling
ton, halfback at the Pottsville (Pa.)
High School, who was hurt in game
with the Shamokin High School;
Walter Evans, fullback at Guthrie
County (Iowa) High School, hurt
in game with the Yale (Iowa) High
School; Joseph Walsh. guard at St
Mary's (Kan.) College, hurt in a
practice game; John Macarthur,
twenty, captain of the Huntington
(Ind) football team. injured in a
game with the Wabash High School
eleven; Charles E. Jack. former
on the Colorado College football
team, died of injuries received in
1906; Langdon Mccormick. fifth end
on the Cornell University football
team, died Of injuries received in
several years of football playing;
Clarence Pierce, of Wilmington. Dell,
hurt in game October %; Charles
Brown Kissam,- fifteen. a student at
the Mackenzie School in Tarrytown;
Russell P. Hecket, fifteen; Of Pitts
burg, died of an injury to his chest;
Clarence Pierce, nineteen, of Will
migton, Del, died of injuries receiv-
ed in a line scrimmage; Charles
Stroppel, seventeen, of Cincinnati,
died at Carthage, Ohio, of injuries
received in line plunge, and Michael
Burke, twenty-one, Of Shenandoah,
Pa, hurt in game against the Phil
adelphia College of Pharmacy.
OF the injured since October 16,
the most seriously hurt is Ernest
Stamm, twenty-seven, of No. All
Sixth street, Brooklyn. His skull
was fractured in game between
the Acorn and the St. Paul football
teams of Brooklyn.
The following have had their COL
lar bones broken: Sellers Under
wood, tackle at Alabama Presbyte-
rian College; Thomas Eggers, end at
West Division (Wis) High School;
Harry Mason, tackle at Brookline
(Mass.) High School; Frank Creede,
guard at Amherst College; James
Barnes, end at Illinois State Nor
NAL School; Coach Siskind, of BAL
timore (Md) High School of CoW-
merce; Richard Day, halfback at
Elgin Qll.) High School; Arlington
Evans, end at Waltham (Mass) High
/ School; Frank Seibert, center ct
Washington (Mo.) High School +,
John Fitzgerald, tackle at Fordham
(N. " College; Richard Miller,
| halfback at Dartmouth College;
John Roberts, tackle at Merca (Ga.)
College; George 1orson, hallback
at Morehead IS. d. High School;
Frank Yontz, quarterback at Logan
| (Ohio) High School, Capt. Bostwick,
halfback at the University Of Geor-
gia; Grant Keppler, quarterback at
Iowa City High School; William Da-
Wis, guard at Delaware (Ohio) High
School; Fred Romig, tackle at Qua
kertown (Pa.) High School, and Roy
Griffith, guard at the University of
| Georgia.
Those who have had legs broken
are Clarence Rust, end at the Elgin,
H., High School; Coe Minardo,
tackle at Belding, Mich, High
School; Patrick Quinn, halfhack on
Monitor Independents of the Ions
dale, L. l.. Clinton Hager, center at
Somerville, Mass, High School,;
Frank Smith, guard at Brown Uni
vcrsity; A. F. Baker, halfback at
University of Kentucky; George Nor
rision, halfhack at Amherst College,;
Wilson Jordon, tackle at Hammond,
Ind, High School; Ted Eberle, half
back at Swarthmore College; R.
Becker, quarterback at Mount Car
mel, Pa, School; Cecil Covinston,
and at Vanderbilt, Tenn. University;
John Shick. halfback at West Branch,
Mich, High School.
Eleven players have had ribs
broken. They are James Clements,
end at Southern Manual, Pa, High