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Show PLAY GAME IN DREAMS. Football Players Are Afflicted With a New Disease. CHICAGO. Nov. in. Football players, according to Jcrc Delancy. trainer of the Northwestern university cloven, aro subject to an ailment similar to softening of the brain, which loads not only to the making of pccullnr statements, but causes strange actions which sometimes arc amusing. Tho exact cause of the trouble. Trainer Dclanov said, he Is nimble to fathom. He declared, however, that It results moro from tho long continued physical and nervous ner-vous strain to which tho mon aro subjected sub-jected during tho three months of rigid training which they aro forced to undergo under-go than from the blows, kicks and bumps thev recolvo on their skulls during games. "It Is known," snld Delancy, "that every player of tho game tights IiIh games over and over again In his dreams, but o'nlv by the mcp who arc In closest touch with tho playera Is It recognized that thoy or - given to constant day dreaming, during dur-ing which they make strango motions an If struggling with an Imaginary oppo- Accordlng to Delancy the athletes aro glvon to almost childish methods of play when at resL An Instance related by tho trainer was of a man who during more than an hour pored over a mup of tho United Slates, drawing lines with his Index In-dex finger and Imagining he was traveling over the country which his finger crossed. |