FOOTBALL FATALITIES.
PREVIOUS CASES RECALLED: When giving evidence at an inquwt held at, Wanganai in connection with the ;. , death of R. H. Williams, lha Gollegiat* , i School boy, who died as the outcome o , an accident while playing in. a football match at Waverley, Dr. A. Wilson described the deceased's injuries, which con- . , sisted of a fractured spine, and said ttat he. only knew of two similar acciden^;. One occurred in Wciiingtoi'.; the <***■■■ was the case of Arraifc,.the who received fatal injuries in » Salnst Taranaki in 1899. Tb", ; $ r Burton, S.M., a similar accident on tie football field al _, Auckland many years ago.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 4
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