Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1906 — FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS.

The football season has opened in the various high schools and colleges, tnat is, football practice. The big games, of course, will follow. Not many of the hundreds of severe accidents of this brutal game get into the papers, but here are a few we have noted during the past week: Saturday, at Columbus, Ind,, Robert Evans, 18 years, broke his left collar bone in practice football. Evans is a member of the high school team. Saturday, at Frankfort, Charles Miner had his lef t leg broken, the knee dislocated and badly bruised. The accident happened during one of the scrimmages, young Miner being at the bottom of the heap. When the other players arose young Miner made an effort to get up, but fell back. He will be unable to play on the team again. Hammond, Ind., September 18. —Elston Elliott, the brilliant young half-back of the Hammond high school team, seventeen years old, was badly crippled yesterday afternoon, while indulging in a practice game at Harrison Park, in preparation for the coming contest with Michigan City. He was palled from the bottom of a scrimmage with his foot twisted entirely around. He will be out of the game for the remainder of the year, and may be crippled for a long time.