HAZARDOUS GAME
FOOTBALL IN AMERICA.
MANY YOUNG MEN KILLED
PUBLIC PROTEST MADE.
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 28, 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.
The hazardous nature of at least one branch of American sport is emphasised by the announcement that 17 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 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 for shoulder to shoulder charging by players, one side carrying the ball to the other’s goal. The dead this year ranged between 15 and 21 years of age. It is emphasised that the percentage of casualities is low in view of the gigantic scale ‘on which the gamo is now being played throughout the country. A public protest has resulted in a modification of the rules principally for the purpose of (eliminating injuries. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 306, 28 November 1927, Page 7
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