Putnam patriot., 1911-12-01
FOOTBALL CASUALTIES
 OF CURRENT SEASON.

pbiladelphia.-The Navy having de fsated the Army, and Yale and liar ,ard having played their final big game ,o tie the football season is prae- sically over. Twelve fatalities have occurred.
 mring the season of 1910 more 4san A score of deaths were reported. However many of the players injured 4bis year are still in hospitals and not | xst regarded as out of danger. While the fatalities have been greatly reduced, the increase in inju- rias is startling. It is becoming more and more evident that, in opening up 4bs game by the introduction of the forward pass and the onside kick, f-sctnres and dislocations, torn liga- mepts and other serious mishaps have baeome more. numerous. The worlds Hst this fall shows 521 cases where nsyers have been incapacitated ,brough the more serious forms of in- mry In no other year has a publish e5 list approached that number. At Yale, where Walter Camp is in charge, the hospital list in the early mart of the season was unprecedent- 4ily large Even Head Coach Fields himself was laid up for time with dislocated shoulder. At Harvard three university players were out of the big game against Yale because of broken homes sustained during the prelimin- sry training season. Princeton lost the services of a trio of anticipated stars for the same reason.
 Seasons Fatalities.
 The deaths of the year were as fol- lows:
 Bruce Adams, twenty-three, Fair mount, Ind, back broken while play Eng with the Fairmount Athletics hganst the Alexandria Tigers at Alex andria, Ind.
 James Carey, fourteen, Milford, Mass; while playing in a grammar sehool game on an open field he lost ts bearings and ran upon railroad track and was killed by a passing train
 Ralph Dimmick, twenty-two, former rar tackle at Notre Dame University; game between Pacific University Eudents and alumni at Portland, Ore, )et 15 his lung was pierced by two ractured ribs; pneumonia set in and e died week later.
 Roy Farrar seventeen, tackle on Rere (S Dak) High School. eleven; cked on head during practice game, et. 22 died a week later.
 Joseph Firanski, seventeen, Pitts urgh; injured by being tackled in rub game, Oct 20; died next day Ethont regaining consciousness.
 Harold L. Hankins, eighteen, Lin ph High School team of Seattle; in red in game against Tacoma High Id carried from field; blood poison E developed, causing death, Nov. 14, days later.
 Thomas Higgins, sixteen, Oconomo- c, Wis; skull fractured in high AOol game; died Nov. 6, two days Ter.
 eharles Lange, nineteen, freshman Montana Agricultural College; yer lrae fractured in game, Oct. 8; re- lned paralyzed until Oct 29, when died
 lawrence Luthy, fifteen, Burling-
 la; injured in hip during scrim- ge as member of South Boundary team; abseess and blood poison
 followed causing death, Oct. S1,
 weeks later.
 sslter E Merryman, twenty-two, back on Davis -Elkins College ni internal hemorrhage of brain owed blow on head in game inst Western Maryland College,
 wand Oct IA; died, Oct IL
 bland Schneekloth, seventeen, cen
 On Correctionville Qa) High pol; three vertebrae fractured in
 e Oct q, against Sioux City High pol; died Nov. IS.
 faneis P. Topping, nineteen, tackle AeTburgh (N. Y) Academy elev-
 mt ln chest during game against ehkeepsie (N. Y.) High School,
 became unconscious that night
 died six days later.