Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1911 — First Serious Football Injury. [ARTICLE]

First Serious Football Injury.

The first serious football Injury of the season in the east has put John Thompson, of St Joseph college, in a hospital at Philadelphia for several weeks with a fractured leg. He was playing on the scrub team against a regular team when one of the players whom he tackled fell upon him.