Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1910 — FOOTBALL FATALITIES. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL FATALITIES.

The 1910 Season Breaks all Previous Records. Sunday’s papers stated that all records for casualties are broken under the new “safety” football rules for 1910. Up to Sunday there have been 22 killed and 499 injured this season, and it is expected that the Thanksgiving games will raise the number of fatalities considerably. These fatalities are 8 less than last year’s record, but there are still more games and many injured are hovering between life and death in college hospitals. In the number of players seriously injured all records have been broken in 1910. The total of accidents, which did not. result fatally, is more than twice the record of last year and nearly 200 more than in 1908, which until now was the .most disastrous year. All the deaths and accidents of 1910 have 6ccured under the new rules which football experts promised would largely eliminate the perils of the game.