Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1905 — A FEW FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

A FEW FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS.

Although studied efforts are usually made to keep foot-ball accidents out of the papers, yet such a great number do find their way into the papers that The Democrat has made no effort to keep track of all of them and the few that appear below are only a part of those reported: Auburn, Ind., Oct. 20.—Prof. Joseph Colburn of tbe St. Joe High School suffered a fracture of his left limb while playing foot ball here Wednesday. Willimanic, Conn., October 22. —John C. Dondero. age 27, died today as the result of an injury received in a football game in Jewett City yesterday. Doctors state that a cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of death, superinduced by the player’s poor physical condition at tbe time. A brother of Dondero was kicked in the eye soon afterward and will lose tbe eye. Cloumbus, Ind., October 24 On Saturday the Columbus H. S. squad will go to Indianapolis to see the game between Purdue and Indiana. When the season opened here the two Ruddelle brothers promised to be stars. In the game with Hanover, E. Ruddelle broke his shoulder bone and in tbe Franklin game G. Ruddelle was struck on the head and fainted two or three times after the game. Neither will likely be able to play again this season. Frankfort, Ind., October 26. Rennet Monroe, son of, Superintendent Edwin Monroe, of tbe Franbfort high school, had bis

left arm broken in three places last evening while playing football with the second eleven of the school. This is the second accident to members of the high school team. Ted Spray having had his collar bone broken in a scrimmage a few days ago. Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 26. “Gigantus” Harp, the Wabash full-back, is nursing a broken nose as a reminder of the slugging indulged in by Notre Dame in the game at South Bend last Saturday. He did not realize the extent of his injuries until yesterday, when he consulted a physician.

Capt. McCrea, of Indianapolis head of the Lake Forest (Ill.) college foot ball team, is laid up with an injured ankle and may not be able to play any more this season. Hellman, Hamilton and Berndt of the Manual Training High School team (Indianapolis) are out of the game because of injuries. Carrithers, the Illinois star, has his knee in a plaster cast and will be laid up for some time. Several of the Harvard team are in the hospital—O’Brien with a broken nose, Squires, Pierce and Cunniff with broken hands, Montgomery and Myere with fractured cheek bones, Capt. Hurley with a strained thigh muscle, and Hall, with water on the knee. At Terre Haute, Addie Lee, captain of the Rose eleven, is out for the remainder of the season with a broken ankle