Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — PROPOSES ANTI-FOOTBALL LAW. [ARTICLE]

PROPOSES ANTI-FOOTBALL LAW.

State legislation forbidding the playing of football in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin is being urged by .Tames Francis Rowley 6515 Kimball avenue Chicago, whose son .Tames Francis Rowley, Jr , died from injuries re ceived in a game on Nov. 5. Parents of sons who have been killed in the season just closed have been asked to co-operate with him. Through the enactment of a similar law in the four named states at the same time Mr. Rowley expects to secure the aid of all educational institutions, neither state profiting from the abolition of the support in neighboring institutions State Senator William Matthews of Bedford, whose son died from injuries in a game on Oct. 16, and the father of Elmer Erickson, who died in Stoughton, Wis., after playing on Oct. 29, have been written by Mr. Rowley.