The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-12-02

ted to football have been reported.
This is eight less than last years
record, but there are still more
games, and many injured are hover
ing between life and death in col
lege hospitals.
In the number of players seriously
injured all records have been broken
in 1910. The total of accidents which
did not result fatally is four hun
dred and ninety-nine, more than, twice
the record of last year and nearly two
hundred more than III 1908. which I'M
til now was the most disastrous year
All the deaths AM accidents OF
1910 have occurred under the new
rules which football experts promised
would largely eliminate The peril of
the game.
The game was divided into quar-
tiers instead of halves. particularly to
reduce the accident list. Open play
was substituted for mass play, that
limbs and skulls might be spared
from fracture and over-taXed hearts
get more frequent resting spells.
The figures indicate that football
under the new rules is more dam
gerous than ever before The safety
rules have contributed sixty-five bro
ken collar bones, forty broken legs,
thirty-seven broken noses, thirty bro
ken ribs, twenty broken ankles, sew
enteen broken fingers, thirteen bro
ken shoulders and eleven broken
wrists, as well as fractures of other
portions Of the anatomy to gener-
Gus degree.
The number of deaths among col
lege players has been unusually large
this year and refutes the assertion
that men who are properly traineI
and coached are not in great peril.
Ralph Wilson half-back on the Wa
bash College team, died in st. Lotus
the day following a game with the
University of st. Louis.
The most recent college death was
that of Rudolph Monk, captain of the
West Virginia eleven, who was killed
on the field in a game with Bethany
College.
List Of Fatalities.
The list of dead follows:
Clarence Bakule, % years of age, a
member of Creighton College, Nebras-
ka team; kicked in the back in a
game against the University of Den
yer; died at Topeka, Kan, November
End.
Edward Byrnes, a member Of the
Park Grammar College, Of Milford,
Mass. thrown against tree in
scrimmage and later an abscess form
ed and he died November 14th.
Claude E. Buell., II years old, a
of Detroit. Mich; kicked in the
head during a scrimmage, hemor-
rhage Of the brain following; died
in hospital October 18th
John Fisher 10 years old, a men,
Der of a Brooklyn public school
team; kicked in. the head and died
! November 18th.
Joseph Fisher. 13 years old, SIC
cumbed to. an abscess on the shout
der caused by an injury in game at
Bath Beach, n. Y.
Sterling Gum. Jr., IS years old
half-back Of the High Schoo, team
of Natcfez. Mass: sku,l fractured
during a mass play: died October
31st
John 4. Hart, IS years old, quar-
ter-back of the team of Simmons Col
lege, Texas: hurt in the head in a
game at Abilene, Tex: died in de-
lrium in the Baptist Memorial SAM.
| tarium at Dallas on March 18th.
Floyd E. Huff. 16 years old. GUAR
| ter-back of the High School team Of
| Nutley, \. J.; kicked 2: the base of
the spine by All opposing player;
| died January 4th.
N. J. keegan, 80 years old, mem.
Der Of the Chicago INDEPENDENT tear,
blood poisoning followed injuries re-
| ceived in game; died Noven Der
| Sth at the Cook County Hospital in
| Chicago.
Wesley H. Kellogg. 90 years old, of
Burlington, Pa: kicked in the back
of the head while playing with the
High School team of Interlaken, n
j.: facial paralysis was followed by
general paralysis; died February Ord
at a Syracuse, ~ Y, hospital.
George Kemp, ii years Old, OF
I Massillon, o.; injured in game.
spinal meningitis following; died Oc-
! tober 31st.