The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-20

! A total of Fourteen dead and forty
| scriousiy injured was the price paid
| tor football ny Its followers during
the season just closing, despite the use
of the new rules, winch were brought.
4 into beinL In On effort to reform the
| game, ana ma xe II less perinus to the
players.
4 That the new rules were successful
| to a more or less extent in keeping
down the list of victims is shown by
1.-The decline of the Inst of victims as COM
tpared with the previous year. During
the season of 1909. twenty-three play
ers suffered injuries which proved fatal
and sixty-four who we're seriously bux
| not fatally hurt. Two years ago there
was one less death attributed to tho
game than this year, but the list OF
injured ran much higher. there being
134 who were so badly hurt that they
required thu attention of surgeons.
OF the fourteen deaths attributed to
the game this year. ono perhaps could
be blamed on q previous year. Car
ence Bakule. player on the Creighton
University team in 1905. died in Il
hospital in Topeka. Kansas. on No
vember i. of this year, after having
been a cripple since he was kicked In
the back In a. ganle with Denver Uni-
versity.
Colleges Lead List.
AS has been the case for the last
two years. the college players this year
again led the list as to tho number
killed and injured. OF the dead this
year five were from the ranks of the
college players, and seventeen college
men were seriously injured. This,
compared with tho fact that the high
schools contributed five deaths. and
athletic clubs only four, and both the
latter contributed o greatly reduced
number of injured. would make itseem
that the training given the college man
does not do away with the danger. al
claimed by some OF It's supporters
Conclusion OF the brain was the lead-
ing cause for the deaths this year, as
has been the case in the past. but it
led both by a much higher proportion
than In either of the two preceding
Years. Most of the accidents which
caused this injury came from open field
tackles. while there was a decrease
in the number of men hurt in the mass
plays, when compared with previous
years. Tho number of those who re-
ceived blows In the head resulting in
conclusions which were not fatal also
showed large increase. This change
in the manner of wounds was partly
because of the change in playing and
the more open game now played
For the first time In the history OF
tho game. an attempt was made to
prosecute one OF the opposing players
as the result of football game, This
was atSWhceling. w. Va, when Thomas
Mccoy. member of the Bethany Col
4ege team, was accused by the umpire
who officiated at the game OF having
caused the death of Rudolph Munk.
captain of the University of West Vir-
ginia team.
Munk was killed by a blow on the
head, which the umpire testified was
struck Intentionally by Mccoy. A5war-
rant was Issued for the latter's arrest,
and he was summoned before the COR
.oner's jury. but was freed later when
the jury returned q verdict that MunS
was the victim of an accident.
Most Costly Game.
One OF the games which brought the
largest cost to the contestants was
played between the Wabash Iudiana)
College team and the eleven represents
ing the University of ST. Louis. The
contest was staged in the latter city
on October %. and resulted In the death
of one player. right half back on tho
Wabash team, and the injury OF two
other youths who had entered the con-
test. 1t was reported at the time that
both teams In this struggle had re-
,verted to the old style OF game and
1Coptinued on Second Pase,)