Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1910 — FOOTBALL VICTIM. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL VICTIM.

Team On Which Ray Hopkins is Captain has Player Killed At St. Louis. Ralph Wilson, star half-back of the Wabash college football eleven, was kicked in the forehead in the third quarter of the game with St. Louis Saturday afternoon and his skull caved in. As a result one rrtore golden harp is in use, and the Wabash team has decided to play no more

games this season. .Notwithstanding the new rules eliminating serious danger t ?). it is said that more serious and fatal accidents have occurred so far this season than ever before. Ray Hopkins of Rensselaer is captain of the Wabash team, and a dispatch from there states that Hopkins and other members of rite team declare they have played their last game, and that the trustees of the college are dis-r cussing the advisability of abolishing the game altogether. 1