Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1905 — BAR FOOTBALL. [ARTICLE]

BAR FOOTBALL.

Hembers of Alton Board of Education Issue Edict. Alton, 111., November fl. —The Alton board of education placed a ban on football yesterday in consequence of the death of righttackle James Squires of the Alton high school rugby team, from injuries he received in a game with the East St. Louis high school two weeks ago. Superintendent Haight says there will be no more football in the Alton schools and the team hAs been disbanded in acquiescence to the sentiment aroused by the death of Squires. The funeral of the victim of the game was held yesterday afternoon. Capt. E. D. Duos, of the Alton team, whose collar bone was broken in the same game, was at the funeral pwathed in bandages. The Rev. J. A. Scarritt, who officiated at the funeral, condemned the rugby game as being similar to the Spanish bull fight in point of brutality and characterized as a national error the public sentiment that would tolerate a continuance of the rugby game in schools and colleges.