Worse than Pugilism

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 47.

Worse than Pugilism.

So Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University, declares of football. He said: "I don't take much interest in football. It's too dangerous for professional players, and college men can't play it more than a year. They are liable to too many serious injuries — injuries for life. It's different from baseball, and it's worse than prize-fighting. The man in the ring doesn't run such a chance of being maimed as the man on the gridiron." "Is there anything to your mind worse than football?" he was asked. He replied: "Yes, aviation. That's demoralizing to the spectators. They don't go to see the aeronaut in flight, but with the expectation of seeing him fall and perhaps be killed."