The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-12
YOSI BlAMfS EXHAUSTION
FOR FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS
mi,h;oan Coach Thinks Player
should Be Removed Before Acct
dent-Cites Incidents TO Prove
His Contention Right.

.,ost injuries in football result
,,,ouph the player being retained In
,ho came after he is exhausted or,
norhaps. by far the greater number
% IN iuries due to football are because
,oys who are i'm no condition to play
,,o came are permitted to partici-
,,tc" said Coach Yost of Michigan re-
Gently. 81 believe the exhaustion OF
niovers could be remedied by dividing
nm the game into four quarters.
"First play twenty minutes with
evo minutes rest; then fifteen minutes
% finish the first half. An intermis-
sion of fifteen minutes between the
halves would give the men an oppor-
tnitv to obtain all needed rest be-
fore beginning the second half The
second half could be divided and play
ed I'm two like periods as the first half.
"The officials should have the right
70 suspend n player who is In no con-
dition 10 continue the game The
distance penalty of all forward passes
should be reduced from fifteen to five
wards. This would encourage forward
passing materially, and would keep
the game more open than II now Is.
These alterations in the rules would
keep all of the men fresh and avoid
all Of the serious injuries that happen
10 players either exhausted or In no
condition to enter game.
Cites Fatalities in Other Sports.
There is an elementlof danger. and
even death on football field, but this
is also true of any other game or
outdoor sport or pleasure that anyone
with a drop of red blood in his veins
would be interested in. Thirty-flve
deaths were reported in baseball dur
ing the past summer. Hunting has
claimed thirty victims i'm Michigan
and thirty-eight in Wisconsin so far
this season. and yet there is no agi-
tation TO eliminate this sport.
NO one unwilling to risk death
could go horseback riding, fishing.
swimming. canoeing. automobiling-in
fact there is no sport or pleasure
excepting ping pong or croquet that
does not have an element of danger
in II.
"The list of deaths given out during
the last season charged to football
includes every man and boy who met
death in any way, provided he had
been a football player during his life.
Many Of the deaths were among boys
not i'm training, while others who
had not been participants. but have
been kicking a football i'm back
yard. one of the list is a man who
claimed TO have contracted consump-
tion on football field i'm 1906; two
who had blood poisoning. and one of
them, Capt. Trmble of Indiana, who
opened a blister on his heel with
pocket knife and infection set i'm.
Died Before Season Began.
"Other Illustrations in point are
those Of Langdon Babcock OF Buffa-
10, N. Y, who died of pneumonia three
months before the season Began;
Charles T.. Jack of Denver. who died
four months before the season open
ed and who hadn't played since 1906;
Domestic Define of Massillon. Ohio
whose death occurred five and one
half months before the season opened;
Charles Becker of Findlay Ohio, an
1l-ycar-old boy, who was killed while
playing I'm a back lot with several
companions; Samuel Moore of Camden,
n. j, who died Jan. I, 1909: John
Arthur Of Wabash, Ind whose death
was said to have been due to an in
jury of the prior season; Walter Lud-
sey of Richmond Va. who died of
pneumonia; Verne Merrill, of James
ville Wis. who died from blood poi
son thought to have been occasional
ny neglected injury of the former sea-
son, and others, all OF whose names
appear In the list of so-called this
seasons fatalities.
In fact, only three of the deaths
were among real college players par
ucipatlng in college games during the
season of 1909. There has never been
Il fatal accident in the history of a
game at seventy-five of the leading