The New York herald., 1922-02-06
FOOTBALL VICTIMS
SPINE IS REPAIRED
Harry Herbert, Syracuse Quar-
terback, to Leave Mount
Sinai This Week.

Harry Herbert, quarterback of the
Syracuse University football team.
whose spine was broken in a game
with Colgate University last November,
win leave Mount Sinai Hospital this
week ana return soon TO his studies.
The plaster cast in which his head and
shoulders were encased after an almost
fatal accident was removed ten days
ago.
The young Syracusan received visitors
and members OF his family yesterday
in his room much as any young and
sound collegian would do. There were
slight traces of the extraordinary ex-
neriences through which he has passed.
Most people may not wish to have
their necks broken in order to get sym
pathy, but those who have Herbert's
experience may expect to make hum
dreds of interesting friends IL they
spend eleven weeks in the enforced quiet
of hospital staring at a white ceiling
with the neck rigidly held in the grip
OF a cast more firmly than ever any
medieval helmet and breastplate could
holt 1t.
Herbert has found some romance in
bis trials, for the feminine heart and
mind are quick to respond to those tugs
within. Since he was so firmly thumped
to the ground November u that his
fifth cervical vertebra was crushed and
four others Immediately adjacent were
logged out of line, he reported that he
had received more than 800 letters and
tolegrains from all parts of the coun-
try. heaps of flowers. bushels of fruit.
thirty-two boxes of candy, innumerable
Smokes" dinner invitations and offers
of automobile rides
The correspondence is perhaps, the
most interesting. for il includes letters
IRON nearly score of States, in addi-
tion TO New York and Connecticut,
which he claims his own Nearly third
OF the letters originated with feminine
football fans and hero worshipers. The
stationery is study in itself, for there
are many shades, in addition to severely
proper white. The messages burn with
the colors, too. From a sheaf Of nearly
hundred received in the last weel;
Herbert picked at random one in pink
from Virginia. 1t read:
Dear Mr.. Herbert: / suppose you
viii be surprised to receive letter
from rank stranger but when ! read
about your misfortune l felt that Just
must write to tell you how sorry / am
that you got hurt. l hope that you will
continue TO improve day by day. I am
sending you flowers to-day. hope that
they will reach you all right and that
you may feel well enough to enjoy
them.
when I said my prayers last night
asked God to please make you we'll
Please have your nurse write me and
| tell me how you are getting along,
will be delighted to receive Just a word
| from you anytime"
Herbert has Acknowledged the recent
| of as many letters as possible. but he
| would need q secretary as well as his
nurse TO maintain such voluminous
| correspondence as fell on him since his
! accident became known. He expects TO
resume his law studies at Syracuse after
| spending few days with his parents in
| Hartford.
| He Is now only waiting to receive tie
last word discharging him from the
| hospital and will leave fully able to
walk with his power of speech reeained.
and the use of his right arm. which at
| one time was almost paralyzed. He says
he will play lacrosse this spring, and
hopes to accompany the football team
| on some of its trips. even if he will not
attempt to play in any contests.
II have shaken hands with death. but
he didn't get me,' was his comment