Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Old Laws Against Football. [ARTICLE]

Old Laws Against Football.

People who are beginning to protest that roughness and brutality in football games should be prohibited, by legal enactment if necessary, can find plenty of encouragement in English history. As tar back as the sixteenth century King James issued a royal mandate forbidding all “rough and violent exercise—such as football, meeter for laming than making able the users of it.” Football in England is now In as bad a condition as baseball in this country. Patronise those who advertiaa.