Football in America.
Say 3 au American paper : " The regular football season for 1894 has ended. There will be a few more victims to bury; many more will bear shattered limbs or scarred bodies through life, and, during the months to come, a fresh crop of sluggers will be developed for next year's gridiron encounters." And again : " The fact that these Californian players carry revolvers adds but little to the dangers attendant upon the game." Evidently football in America is a much more serious business than it is with us. At a recent match between Yale aud Princeton Universities the Superintendent of Police stationed a force of two hundred and fifty men about the field with instructions that should the game develop anything other than a purely scientific contest it should be treated exactly as would a prize fight. The players were instructed that any attempt at " brutality " on the part of any of their number tho game would be. stopped,
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 175, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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161Football in America. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 175, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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