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Show CALLS FOR COMPLETE ! REFORM OE FOOTBALL Horrors of the Great Game Lead Chancellor MacCracken to Act. i N'F.W YORK. Nov. K. William Monro, lichl half-hac-k of the T'lilon college football foot-ball team, died tonight from Injuries received re-ceived today In a gamS with Now York university. He was 10 years old and lived Ht Schenectady, N. V. Moure wtt.v knocked uiH-onm-iouM bj i blow on the head while ho wan earyliiR the bull and bucking the lino. He diod about nIx hours after receiving re-ceiving tho Injury, from cerebral hemorrhage. hemor-rhage. Chancellor MaeCracken of the Now York university wus Informed of the- tragedy tonight while Visiting his son-in-law, K. 1 K. Btookwoll. in Mevorlv. N .1. Tho chan- ; orllor Immediately sent tho following tole-Krnm tole-Krnm to President Kliol Of Harvard unl-vcrslt unl-vcrslt . Sends Request to Eliot. "President Charles W. Eliot, Harvard University, Cambrldgo, m.iha May I not request, in view of the tragedy on Ohio Molil today, that you will Invito a moi-t- i ii ac of university and college presidents to undertake the reform or abolition of football. IIKNR Y M A C CRACKBN." The chancollor said If Inexpressibly Shocked. "I am Inexpressibly pnlnoil and Mhockod to In nr of Mi Moore's death I will sav that I have within the last tblrtv days said to members of the university faculty thai I have unlv waited for SOmS nf the older and Uvger universities to lead t.. favor either the abolition or the com- I pietc- reform or football.' t repeated this at the last meeting ot the faculty. I have not felt It to bs the duty of New york university to take the l id In Ihis mat- i tcr. We have discouraged any attempt to play football on a great ycale here and have never allowed the desire to win to affect our requirement of moderation." Rib Driven Through Heart. ROCKFORD, Ind.. Nov 86. Car Osborne, Os-borne, IS years old. was Instantly killed In a foobnll came between Marshall and j Hollmoro high schools at Rellmore today. One rib had been broken and driven through lus heart Still Another Victim. SP.DALIA Mo., Nov. 25. Robert Brown aged 16 years, was fatally Injured In a football game today. Ho Is paralyzed from the neck down and has not spoken since he was hurt. |