Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1908 — EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Bob Wartena, who has just recovered from being so badly burned by a disconnected steam hose on the drill boat on the Iroquois ditch, is now carrying his arm in a sling as a result of having his right shoulder broken in a football game in East Chicago Sunday. He was playing with some team there and during a “tackle” the accident occurred. Several other players were injured in the game, Bob says, which was unusually Elkhart, Ind., Oct.s. —Ray Minnis, age twenty-five, and married, sustained a compound fracture of the jaw in a football* game. Schenectady, N. Y., Oct. 10. —A sanguinary record for the football season was established here to-day by the teams of Union and Wesleyan Colleges, 17 players being rendered unconscious in the game. Five of them were so seriously hurt that they were removed to the hospital. The officials united in saying that the game was the roughest and most hard-fought they had ever seen. In less than 10 minutes after play began both the Captains—Potter, of Union College, and Hammond of Wesleyan, were carried from the field. The playersgouged and beat one another like demons. Cannonsburg, Pa., Oct. 11.—William M. Potts, the football player who was injured in a game here Oct. 3, died today after having been unconscious since last Monday. He was seized with convulsions for the second time yesterday and an operation brought no relief. Potts, who was 21 years old, played on the scholastic team. During a scrimmage in a game with the high school eleven he was kicked on the head. Ithaca, N. Y., Oct. 11.—George Vrandenburg, right half back on the Oberlin football team, woh was knocked out by a kick on the jaw in the Cornell game yesterday, was so far recovered this afternoon that the Cornell physician in charge of him said he would be able to return home to-morrow. Vrandenburgh was tackling Full-Back Walden when the accident occurred. Gardner, quarter back at Cornell, crashed into the two men and his knee hit the Oberlin man on the jaw, sending him to oblivion which lasted until 9 o’clock last night.