American Football Is A Dangerous Game

American Football Is a Dangerous Game

By Professor J. F. ATKINSON of the London (England) Footballers' Hospital

The American game of football is a magnificent spectacle, with its color, songs and enthusiasm and American women, who are never more charming than at a football game. ENGLAND HAS NOTHING LIKE IT. But the training necessary for American football players to put up such a strenuous game must be a disadvantage to them in after life.

WE TRAIN OUR ATHLETES WITH A VIEW TO GIVING THEM A FOUNDATION FOR CONTINUED PHYSICAL TRAINING.

I have noticed an overweening desire to win rather than the SPORT FOR THE SPORT'S SAKE. It is dangerous. It induces slugging and rough playing of all sorts. More than once I noticed players slam a man to the ground heavily when he did not have the ball and was not near enough to it to be dangerous. All that armor should not be necessary. THE TRAINING IS TOO SEVERE. After all, it but reflects perhaps the pushing and strenuous, but new and as yet undeveloped, character of the United States as a nation.