FOOTBALL IN U.S.A.
SEVENTEEN KILLED THIS SEASON. (ft CABLE—PBBSB ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOBT.) (itfITULUN AND S.Z CABLB ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, November 27. %s hazardous nature of at least one tfkch of American sport is emphasised bj the announcement that seventeen johng men were killed and 100 sufM major injuries during the college ffljHball season just ended. V'Tbivgame, which is avowedly one of tU toughest, claims annually a large tr df casualties. Eight were Bad 280 injured in 1926. Twenty *rtilled and 100 injured in 1925. urseason lasts only through OctoJlfind November, with an occasional pie played in September and Demet. One of the chief manoeuvres of the < ?ilfce provides shoulder to shoulder chtrging by the players, one side ttttymgthe ball to the others' goal. The (Mad this year ranged between fifteen and twenty-two years of ago. It. is emphasised that the pertfentage of casualties is low in view of the gigantic scale on which the game is adir behw. played throughout the country. Public protest has resulted in the modification of the rules, principally for the purpose of eliminating injuries.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19170, 29 November 1927, Page 9
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