Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1913 — First Football Fatality Occurs to Grant Park Player. [ARTICLE]

First Football Fatality Occurs to Grant Park Player.

The first victim of the fall football season in this section of the country was recorded Monday. Albert J. Kramer, half back on the Grank Bark, 111., football team, died as a result of injuries suffered in a game with a Kankakee, 111., team at Grant Park. He was struck at the base of the skull when tackled by Howard Reed, of M-anteno and Pull Back Hazelett, of Kankakee. None kppw of the boy’s condition until after Kankakee had won the game by a score of 6 to 3. * ' Phone 273 for wood, feed and coal.