Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1905 — A BAD FOOTBALL ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

A BAD FOOTBALL ACCIDENT

One of the very worst football accidents that ever occured in a game here happened last Saturday afternood. The victim was Ed.Schoen, left half-back of the Shortridge team. He tackled his opponent Dobbins, while the latter was running with the ball and was struck in the right side by the latter’s knee. The blow injured the liver and kidney, and was exceedingly painful and from the severity of the shock, was also very dangerous and not only the boy himself but several of the nearer spectators thought he would die, right there. He was given prompt medical attention and finally rallied from the sboek. He was taken to the Nowels House and on the night train sent to Indianapolis. His father was with him and was acting as one of the time keepers when the accident occnred. The injury will be sure to lay the young man up for several weeks, bnt the physicians who attended him here think he will recover all right, in,time. By all accounts, Schoen was the roughest player in the game, and the instigator of the rough and “dirty” play which both sides gave way to, to a very regrettable extent: but in this particular case all those who were in position to see the accident clearly seem to agree that the injury was purely an accident, and the playing which caused it entirely “straight.” This morning’s later edition of the Star, says the boy’s condition had been very critical, bnt at latest reports showed signs of improveThe Star is very unfavorable in its comments on the rough play here, laying all blame on our team, and saying that all athletic relations between the two schools will be severed. According to the best accounts we can get, however, Shortridge began*the slugging, and persisted in it as long as onr boys and even longer. There were a lot of yelpers in the audience, however, who ought to have been kicked off the ground.