FORTY DEATHS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1932, Page 2

FORTY DEATHS

U.S.A. FOOTBALL “MURDER.” STUDENTS’ JOURNAL PROTESTS. GAME FOR, SPECTATORS. SAN FRANCISCO, December 17. The clamour of pectators for sensational football in the United States and the alarming statement that 40 deaths have occurred in consequence of clashes in the American gridiron, caused “The Spectator,” the Columbia University undergraduate newspaper, to renew its editorial attack upon )the game, when collegiate football was classified as ‘“murder.”

“Perhaps the football rules committee could devise methods of improving the game from the standpoint of physical welfare of the players,” the editorial said, “but, since the first consideration these days, is the enjoyment of the spectators, the game will probably not undergo any radical revision for many a year. “Reasons will be given: ‘The injuries would not occur if the game were played correctly,’ some commentators will declare. ‘The presence of a little danger in the game of football only makes it more worthwhile,’ sports writers will say. A few utterly queer individuals or organisations (such as the ‘Spectator’), however, will go so far as to utter words which might be considered as opposing tin 1 annual slaughter. But when a crowd of football coaches and other phenomena of Llic sport arrange tilings so nicely for the mobs in the stands that the players become human sacrifices, the word ‘murder’ creeps into the picture and stays there in spite of the efforts of thousands of moo who live by, for and with foot--1,all."

In (be b.'g collegiate football matches in the United States there are now usually a small arm v of players for each side, ready to fake to the Iray, it generally being possible to replace the team at leasf three times with new players. ('miserfiontl.v. ( be stars go into blio pi ay lighting rigorously, (browing themselves into the f hi"!-: of I * l ' l light utterly regardless of physical dangers, an,| ninny get severely injured as a result. Direr! |y all injury occurs, new men are ill :lled into the field and play resumes. The injured player is rewarded with I, 1 iimleroiis applause Imm the grandstands.

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