ROUGH FOOTBALL
AS PLAYED IN U.S.A. THE SEASON'S CASUALTIES. PUBLIC RAISE A PROTEST. [By Cable —Press Assn. — Copyright.! Received 28, 9.5 a.m.) New York, Nov. 27. The hazards 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 1926, and 20 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 the other’s goal. The dead this year ranged between 15 and 22 years of 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 has resulted in modification of the rules, principally for the purpose of eliminating injuries.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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192ROUGH FOOTBALL Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 5
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