Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — A FEW FOOTBALL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

A FEW FOOTBALL NOTES.

Clippings From the Dally Prass On "Higher Education.'' Marengo, 111.. Nov. 2.—The football game Saturday between Marengo and Dundee was a disastrous one for the players in both elevens. They “roughed” it from the beginning and before ten minutes of play one of the Dundee boys was disabled. Daring the game several of the boys were more or less injured, but none so badly as Frank Standish. The Same was nearly finished when tandish was running around the end at full speed; a Dundee player tackled him and they both went down hard. Standish Btruck on his head and lay stunned for several minutes. He revived all right and went home after tbe game. Later he suffered severe pain in his head and became delirious. He has been in this condition a great deal of the time since. t t New Haven, Conn., Nov. 5. Owsley, Soper, Metcalf and Hogan of the regular Yale eleven, were laid off last evening because of injuries. t t Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 6. Frank Shanklin, aged twenty-one years, the Hanover college football player who was injured in a practice game five weeks ago, died last night at the Deaconess hospital. Shanklin was considered one of the beet athletes ever in Hanover and was said to be the greatest basket ball player in the state. Last fall he was elected captain of the foot ball team, but refused to accept the position, saying that he could do more for the team by playing his old position of left-end. While playing in a practice game Shanklin tried to make a flying tackle, bat missed his man and fell heavily to the ground." The right side of his body was badly strained and ho was otherwise injured. After suffering at Hanover for three weeks he was removed to the Deaconess hospital, but the physicians were unable to do anything for him. His father, J. C. Shanklin, a business man of Franklin, and brother, E. M. Shanklin of Hammond, were in constant attendance at the young man’s bedside uutil his death.

Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 7 the permission of his parents, Warren E. Boyer, the star halfback of the Moravian Parochial school, played with his team against the Bethlehem high school eleven today and in a<v scrimmage had a shoulder blade broken. His condition to-night is precarious. t t Cumberland, Md., Nov. 7. John Davis a player on the Frostburg football team, sustained a broken leg and was otherwise frightfully injured in a game at Braddock Park to-day. He had the ball and went under a vicious rush, six or eight heavy men piling on him and snapping his leg.

Indianapolis, Ind , Nov. 7. Jamie Dow, one of the star halfbacks of the Manual Training High School gridiron team, wrenched bis knee in the scrimmage practice against the U. of I. eleven yesterday evening and severely sprained the tendons of the left leg. Alf Duggan, who has been out of the game for two weeks on account of a sprained back, will return to the squad and will make Dow’s loss less severely felt. Bonham, the right end, was also painfully hurt about the neck, which was badly lacerated when he made a flying tackle. t t Lima, Ohio, Nov. 8. —Lima parents have brought to a sudden end the football season of the Lima High School eleven. There were four or five Lima students at Purdue who were in the big wreck near Indianapolis, though they escaped unhurt. The wreck, however, weighed* on the minds of parents, who forced four of the best players on the local eleven to stop playing. The team was scheduled to play Saturday at Foatoria, but was disbanded by order of thg principal. t t Canton, Ohio, Nov. B.—Sunday football in this part of Ohio got b severe setback to-day when in a game with Akron five players were injured and one of them, Herman Gustavos, half back of the home team, was so badly injured that physicians say be cannot live. He is in the City- Hospital, still unconscious. It was iu tiie second half that a fierce scrimmage oceured, and when a dozen men rose from the ground, where

Oustsvus lay still. Hie was found to be unconscious. His head was cut open evidently with a spiked shoe, and be had received internal injuries from which the physicians say he cannot recover. He was carried to the hospital, and the game resumed. There has been much feeling against Sunday football Here, and it is thought the injuries to Gustavus will end that sort of sport in Canton. t t Cumberland, Md., Nov. 10— Clayton Hartig’s hip was broken in a football game at Frostburg to-day. Last week John Davis’ leg was broken at football in Frostburg. -S t t Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 10.— Manager Winterrowd of the Barrister polo team of M. T. H. 8., is in a predicament, as Morris Peele, who was to have played center, has signed with a team outside the city, and Sammy Sampsell dislocated his knee in the football game Saturday. t t Bloomington, Ind., Nov 10.— Capt. Clevenger and Everett Smith are absent from Bloomington this week, tbe former coaching the Anderson high school and the latter the Central Physicians and surgeons. They will not return until Friday. Smith will not likely be able to get in the game for several weeks yet on account of a knee hurt in the Illinois game. Aydelotte, who has a sprained wrist, and Dodson, with a sore leg, are the only other members of the team who are not in form. f t New York, November 11. — Raymond McNeagb, eighteen years old, a member of the Cadillac football team, lies at tbe point of death at bis home in Brooklyn from injuries received in a game November 3. Doctors say his brain was injured.