Football Fatalities by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 50.

Football Fatalities

By Editor

Football.—At this writing full reports have not come in of the football fatalities this year, but up to Thanksgiving Day, nineteen had been killed in the United States and one hundred thirty-seven seriously injured, during the year, and among them a woman player. Nearly all of these deaths resulted from undue violence in the playing of the game. Add to this two seriously injured that are reported December 1, of which, one, a young man in Connecticut, received spinal injuries, the other, a sixteen year old lad of Alameda, California, was brutally bruised and kicked until he is paralyzed. If prize-fighting resulted in as many fatalities as football, there is not a state in the union but what would have prohibited it.