YANKEE FOOTBALL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 21, 26 January 1911, Page 4

YANKEE FOOTBALL.

• SEASON'S APPALLING DEATH ROLL. 22 KILLED AND 499 INJURED. A startling toll of football casualties has been rolled up during the season not yet concluded in America. Twenty-two deaths directly attributed to football have been -cportod. This is eight less than last j ear's record, but there are still moie 'games, uud many injured are hovering between life and death in .college hospitals. In the number vi placers seriously injured all records ha\e beou broken in 1910. The total of awidonls which did not result fatally is 499. 111010 than twice the record of last year, und nearly 2CO more than in 1908, which until now uu^ the most disastious your. AIL the deaths uud accidents of 1910 have ocourred undor tho now rules, which lootball exports promised would largely eliminate tho peril of tho game. MORE PERILOUS THAN EVER. The game was divided into quurttois insload of halves particularly to reduce the uccidont libt. Open play was substituted for ina.ss play, particulailv that limbs and skulls might bo spared horn fracture and overtaxed hearts get ma|e frequent resting spells. '* The figures indicate that football under the new rules is more dangerous than over boforo. Tho eafoty Mr* htivo conJributed $5 broken collarbones, 40 broken

legs, 30 broken ribs, 20 broken ankles, 17 broken fingers, 13 broken shoulders, and 11 broken wrists, as well as fraafcures of other portions of -the anatomy to a generous degree. The number of deaths among college players has. been unusually large this year, and proves untrue the assertion that men who were properly coached and trained were- not in groat peril. Ralph Wilson, half-back on th© Wabash College team, ! died .in St. Louis the day foDowing a j game with the University of St. Louis. GAME ABOLISHED IN VIRGINIA. Although ■an "open yerdigt'* "was returned by the coroner's jury investigating tho death of Rudolph Munk, who was killed in the game between Bethany College and West Virginia University, it is believed that the charge of murder, which was filed against Thomas M'Coy, right end of the Bethany eleven, will bo dismissed. M'Coy has been held in gaol since he surrendered. It is not believed that steps will be taken to bring him back for _ trial, as he_ has announced that ho will fight extradition. The verdict of the coroner's jury read : — "We, the jury, find that tho Heceased, Rudolph Munk, came to his death as tho result of injuries sustained in a football game by colliding with Thomas M'Coy. As a result of the tragedy, football is being abolished in all parts of West Virginia.