AMERICAN FOOTBALL
A HAZARDOUS SPORT HEAVY ANNUAL CASUALTIES SEVENTEEN KILLED IN PRESENT SEASON. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, November 27. (Received November 28, at 10 a.ra.) The hassardousness of at least one branch of American sport is emphasised by the announcement that seventeen young men were killed and 100 suffered major injuries during the college football season just ended. This game, which is avowedly one of the roughest, claims annually a large number of casualties. Eight were killed and 280 injured in 1926,’ and twenty were killed and 100 injured in 1925. The season lasts only through October and November, with an occasional game played in September and December. One •of the chief manoeuvres of the game provides shoulder to shoulder charging by the players, one side carrying the ball to other’s goal. The dead this year ranged between fifteen and twenty-two years in age. It is emphasised that the percentage of casualties is low in view of the gigantic scale on which the game is now being played throughout the country. A public protest lias resulted in a modification of the rules, principally for the purpose of eliminating injuries'.
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Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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190AMERICAN FOOTBALL Evening Star, Issue 19725, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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