AMERICAN FOOTBALL.

THE ANTI-BRUTALITY CRUSADE. United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received December 11, 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 10. • Thirteen Amerioan Colleges have agreed to reform football, eliminating brutality 'from the play.

(The American correspondent of the Auckland " Star " writes under date October 25 as follow- : — " A compilation of statistics in regard to tha American football field for the past five years shows that hardly one of the big College games has been played during whioh it has not been necessary to carry off one or more of the players in a helpless condition. In this short period of football, lasting as it does only about six weeks eaoh year, there have been no fewer than forty-five deaths and hundreds of serious injuries. Tho forty-five players killed were generally found beneath a mac*, of other players, kicked on the head or stomach and internally injured to a mortal degree. Sixteen died as a result of internal injuries, four from broken necks, six from concussion of the brain, eight from. broken backs, three from paralysis, two from heart failure, one from look jaw, one from blood poisoning, one from a cut received in a game, one from hemorrhage and two from meningitis induced by spinal injuries suffered in play. Besides the deaths-, the more notable deaths included ten legs and fourteen collarbones broken, four skulls fractured, five spines injured, four shoulders dislocated, a number of ribs arid three noses broken. ' One placer had his neck broken without its causing his death. All these disasters have been due to unnecessary roughness, against which President Roosevelt has now made publio protest. Were it not for the. fact that the President'j sons will soon be entering College and ar c not quite as physically rugged aa their, father; although evidently; pos^ sessed of an equal share of pluck and spirit for adventure, it io perhaps doubtful whether the President would have interested himself sd much in the matter, and it is doubtful whether his protest will have much of an effect, although the representative (Alleges have agreed to heed it.} s „ — < i