MANY FOOTBALL FATALITIES.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2648, 10 May 1895, Page 6 (Supplement)

MANY FOOTBALL FATALITIES.

Over a Score of Kickers Killed on the Gridiron This Year. At least 25 young men have been killed in America ami England -while playing football this year and last, and hardly a day passes now that the name of a new victim is not announced. At Delavan, Wis., Nov. 4, John Peterson, a mute, tackled one of the Beloit team, fell heavily and died of concussion of the brain in an hour. A week later Hugh Saussa, a student of the College of the City of New York, while running with the ball, was downed by half a dozen of the Elizabeth Athletic club's team, and his neck was broken. The same, day Addis Herrold of the Richmond (Ind.) Y. M. C. A. was caught in a scrimmage i and his skull fractured. Physicians pro- | nounced him fatally injured. On Nov. 18 Raymond Carew of Toledo fell with the ball, the Adrian college team formed a

WHAT A SCRIMMAGE LOOKS LIKE. pyramid on top of him, and he died a few. hours later from an injury to the spine. Two other players were seriously hurt in the same game. Afc Farmingfcon (Conn.) John White, while playing with Yale seniors, was thrown with terrific violence, other players fell on him, and his body was paralyzed. James F. O'Brien of Manhattan college died in New York Nov. 24 from injuries received in a football scrimmage Oct. 11. Robert Christy was killed at Wooster, 0., Nov. 24. Malice apparently entered into none of the above accidents, but in many of the big college games this year players have boen brutally struck with the fist, jumped on and even bitten by members of opposing elevens. Such wanton brutality should be eliminated from the game,in the opinion, of all lovers of healthful, honest sport. A Very Remarkable Shooting Match. In a recent match between J. A. R. Elliott of Kansas City and Frank Class of Morristown, N. J., both men did some remarkable shooting. The stakes were §250 a side, and the men shot at 100 pigeons each. Class killed 99 and Elliott 95. The latter lost three by falling dead out of bounds. Class missed the thirteenth bird. !