Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1910 — PRES. JORDAN DENOUNCES FOOTBALL. [ARTICLE]

PRES. JORDAN DENOUNCES FOOTBALL.

President Jordan of Leland Stanford University, says of football: “Some day the college presidents and school heads Of this country will perhans be called cowardly and brutal because they did not put a stop to the dangers of football, a sport that destroys the best there is in American youth. ' “No intelligence is required in the game of football. Blacksmiths and boilermakers can play the game as well as men of the finer intellects; in fact, they are considered the best raw material for the game.”