Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1906 — FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS.

At Purdue four players are laid up with broken and sprained ankles received in practice games. Pittsburg, Sept. 21. The first football fatality of the season is expected to result from injuries received yesterday by William Snyder, a member of the Western University of Pennsylvania football squad. Two of Snyder’s ribs were broken and it is feared he was injnred internally. Snyder is a junior. His parents, who live in Verona, have been notified. Dannville, 111., Sept. 21.—John Harriott, a star quarter-back on the high school eleven, suffered a broken collar bone yesterday afternoon, while participating in a practice game on Williams’ fieldf Soon after putting the ball in play the high sohool eleven lined up against a scrub team, getting in condition for the game with Tuscola Saturday. The regulars were forced back by the scrubs and a scrimmage resulted. Quarter-back Garriott was caught in the meele and thrown heavily to the*ground, the entire bunch of players falling upon him. Peru, Ind., September 24. Willard King, of the Amboy high school football team, had his arm broken Saturday by another player accidentally kicking the arm while King was down. Princeton, N. J., Sept. 26 While carrying the ball over for a touchdown in a practice game of football at Lawrenceville to-day John P. Kennedy captain and right halfback of the Lawrenceville eleven, was kicked in the head. He walked off the field apparently unhurt, but died an hour later. He was 21 years old and his home was at Troy, N. Y.