Show FOOTBALL FATALITIES ON RAPID INCREASE Death of West Point Cadet With Many Others Causes General Stir About Game I Special to The New York Nov 2 With the football season Just swinging Ing into the th final big game period the list of injuries and deaths sustained by players is increase increasing ing with appalling rapidity With the au autumns autumns autumns play having turned the halfway mark no rio less leas than eleven live have been sacrificed on the field and tw players pla ers are laid up with se serious serious serious rious injuries Moreover It is feared that several of these injuries may ma develop fa fatalities fatalities In all three score or more have been in injured Injured The unfortunate accident to Eu Eugene Eugene Eugene gene A Byrne the West Point cadet in la last t Saturdays game between Harvard and the Army which caused his death has brought the situation to a crucial point Coming as it did very soon after the almost fatal accident to the quarter quarterback quarterback quarterback back Earl Wilson or of the Navy vy it brings s shome home the fact harder than ever that foot football football football ball is still a dangerous sport aport While ev every evry ry autumn campaign in the lIsts Hats It exacts its death and Injury toll toil the prominent position that Byrne and Wilson ilson held in the pigskin realm has brought gridiron warfare under the public eye ee with startling vividness Indeed Ind many close Iose students of the pastime are prone to think that another hue and cry may ma be raised rals d against the There is no denying that the game as asIt asit asIt It is played pla ed is strenuous in the extreme mo no measures of the rules com corn committee committee can make It otherwise Football Jn tn this country Is distinctly different from the English Eng Ish pastime of the same name It Is III this element clement of danger that thatto to a certain extent gives It its individual ity It and fills the college world with an enthusiasm unknown to other sports |