Death By Foot-ball

In twenlty yeauis oí footbadil there hiave been so f ar as I have been abie authentiwadily to (race, six. deaths, fu o oi thiem in tWs l'ast year, directly Sñti to football. Permanent injuries a,re of very lnfrequent occurrence, and I have noit learned oí enough even to start a list. Yet another fact. Every one of these fatal injuries luis been recelved In a gaine between etther teams oí immature pTiaj-er.; or teams at colleges or ectoools where football was of very recent inti-oduction. Cei'tainiy no ome wül deny timt ihe hardest games in. the country have been played by the en stern colleges, particnlarly by Harvard, Ya le, rennsylTania and Princetion. Tliiere haa evei1 been a deatli as the resulit of a football in jury at auy one of these ol'leges, and I luave never heard oí a permanent injury resulting from Uay letween these elevene. The nost serious accident, and the oiïly one oí its kind Ihave ever seen, was a cnisheti breastbotae, and the maa vho suffered that is strong and weJl oi-da'y. Do nol these taots outweigh the ygterltad diatribes contiuuousiy aiwiclied against faotball ? Football is a rough gaine ; of that here is no doulit. ; aml it is suscept.Vte of impnovement ; bat the most irious accidente are brokem collar ornee and twisted anules and knees. Broken coïlar bones are of much less i'equent occurrence bhan tlie twisted nkles and knees, and SïWely none .is o serioTis a.s to avu riant ccmdemna iom oí tne gumie as "degTaded and igoble."' Thi .--eason rrcorded but one roken coSlar bone, I believe, among lic iour loadins univcrsities, and hese fouir allane liad atoout two hunred men trylmg for the 'varsity eams. Tliere were, tao, few twistd ankles and knees, and the majority oï those were alt Harvard, where the rainiDg ha been decidedly detective or a couple of yeaTS. "Wihen accidenta do occur, they are nffimost invarlably magnified by the enBaticii-mon'gers o'f the "new journafllam.'' On the rare occasions of a eath, no termts are too dramatic to lescribe the "horriblfe brutality" of