Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1909 — BIGGEST DEATH LIST IN FOOTBALL HISTORY. [ARTICLE]

BIGGEST DEATH LIST IN FOOTBALL HISTORY.

New York, November I.—Three deaths resulting from last Saturday’s football games have served to call attention to the fact that this seaeon promises to furnish the most gruesome list of death and accidents of any in the history of football. Already there have been fifteen deaths with the most fiercely contested games yet to be played. A summary of other injuries so far reported this year shows six young men to be Buffering from what are believed fatal Injuries, twenty-two broken collar bones, fifteen broken legs, sixteen broken noses, nine broken ankles, eight victims of broken ribs, eleven broken shoulders, six broken fingers, six broken arms, one broken wrist, one broken hand and two broken jaws.