BOYS KILLED AT FOOTBALL
HAZARDOUS GAME IN UNITED STATES SPORT’S GRIM TOLL IN COLLEGE MATCHES By Cable—Press Association.— Copyright. Received 9.55 a.m. NEW YORK, Sunday. •THE hazardousness of at least one branch of American sport 1 is emphasised by the announcement that 17 young men were killed and 100 suffered major injuries during the college football season just ended.
rpHIS game, which avowedly is one i of the roughest, claims annually a large number of casualties. Eight were killed and 200 injured in 1926; 20 were killed and 100 injured in 1925. The season lasts only through October and November, with an occasional game played in September on to December. One of the chief manoeuvres that On tame provides is shoulder to
shoulder charging by the players of one side, when they are carrying the ball to the other’s goal. The Dead this year are all between 15 and 22 years old. It is emphasised that the percentage of casualties is low In view of the gigantic scale in which the game is now being played throughout the country, but 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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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 213, 28 November 1927, Page 1
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