Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — NEWS OF THE GRIDIRON. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE GRIDIRON.

Clippings From the Dally Prsss On "Higher Education." Football has been prohibited in nine of the schools and colleges of the country. Three deaths have been reported. It is not the professors leg that is being broken, is it? —Fowler Leader. t t South Bend, Ind., Ootober 30:— John Haughton, Jr., a high school football player, recently bad a toe amputated, the result of injuries in a football game. Blood-poison-ing set in and he died to-day. t t Newcastle, Ind., October 30. Glen Paddock, thirteen years old, broke his arm while playing football. In a tackle he fell to the ground with the ball and a number of playmates fell upon him. t t Fowler, Ind., Oct. 31.—The football club is no more for the season. The breaking of “Monk” Eller’s collar bone last Saturday and the sure thing that the'y could not win a single game were the causes of the dissolution.

Hanover, Ind., October 29: N. W. Voorhies, Hanover’s star half-back, had his leg broken last evening in practice while endeavoring to stop a mass play. This is the second player crippled at Hanover this year. Frank Shanklin, who was internally injured three weeks ago, successfully underwent an operation yesterday. t t New York, October 29. Thomas McCauley, sixteen years of age, lies at the point of death in a Brooklyn hospital from injuries received in a football game. His neck is broken and his lower limbs are paralyzed, but the lad retains full possession of bis faculties. McCauley, who is the son of a police sergeant, was playing on a training school eleven. He got the ball and started to run when he was downed with the entire' team on top of him. t t Monticello, Ind., November 2. Monticello high school football team played the Logansport high school organization at Mack’s grove, Saturday. When time was called the score was oto 0. The local team was handicapped by the absence of Gardner,. quarterback who was injured at Delphi, October 24, and Dean Meyers, left half-back, who was out of the game on account of the injury of his brother Clark Meyers, in the Big Four wreck. t t Trenton, N. J., November I. Two divinity students are lying ir. this city suffering from serious injuries received while playing football. They are Howard Twadelle, of New York, and Morgan Van Tassell, of Brooklyn. Twadelle undertook to carry the ball down the field to the goal. He was going at a terrific pace and plunged into a player of the opposing team. He was knocked senseless. Physicians say he is liable to become violently insane at any moment. He was brought here to the State Hospital for the insane in the hope that under scientific treatment, he might recover. Van Tassell was injured in the same way that Twadelle was hurt, and his condition is critical.

Ann Arbor, Mich., Nov. 2 Never has a team oome home to Ann Arbor in such condition as the Michigan eleven reached it last night, and the nature of marks is evidence that cannot be contradicted that they were not sustained in any manner legal, according to football rules. At a consultation after the game Redden, Heston, Hammond and Maddock all stated that they would never play against Minnesota again. There is scarcely a member of the team who has not a bruise on his face, and may have black eyes. Heston, whom Minnesota announced in advance they were “laying for,” is simply a sight. One eye is closed and the other can barely be opened, and his lips are split and puffed. Maddock is little better- and Gooding’s back is so lame that he walks with difficulty. Furthermore, Coach Tost and Dr. Williams are at outs, chiefly on account of the persistency with which Williams insisted on Clark *" ‘ ** ’ ” ’-'I- ‘

for umpire. Inexcusable conditions which necessitated the stopping of play before the limit had expired and: profanity and obsenity which the Minnesota players heaped on the Wolverines, according to universal statements, all through the game, are other conditions contributory to the same end. t t Rushville, Ind., Nov. 3. —Randall, a colored player on the Carthage football team, was quite seriously injured in the game with Richmond Saturday. He was kicked in the back of the head by one of the players during the progress of the game, and while not noticed at first, he is now thought to be quite seriously injured. It is likely that this will stop football at Carthage this year. ft Indianapolis item regarding the Purdue football train wreck victims.—While the physicians were examining Long (one of the injured players) they found’ that he bad a badly dislocated ankle which he had sustained in the Oberlin game and was hiding from the team physician so that he would not be barred from the great game scheduled for last Saturday. t t Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. s: Frank Shanklin, captain and right end of the Hanover College- football team is critically ill at the Deaconess hospital. Five weeks ago he was injured in a practice game, missing his man in a tackle and falling heavily on his left side. His condition grew rapidly worse, and he was brought here a few days ago in a dying condition. It | is not believed he will live the! week out He is a son of J. C. Shanklin of Franklin, and was one of the most popular students at college.