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Show FOOTBALL DEATH 1H osijnEii Many School Boys Afe Kill.l ji?' on Gridiron Through " ' t Negligence. t . REFEREE IS ASKKD Tl) : l! TAKB BYHEpjto T' West Point Cadet Was x i, I'?! to Continue (Ja,ne Before liast Down. ft . . i Tribune Special .Sporting Scrvlc ' E WEST POINT, Kov. ull K has brought on more criticL f. two weeks tl,n ever bof!TB ft?e lory of the sport. The death football players iu various jansin Ci country and tho attack oa G55 S in another hi Kaino havo critics of this sport ammunition, J them for an indefinite timo events have resulted in column it column ot advice from r elcrsymcn mid ovory brand of Ill' HiiestiuK changes in tho plaviwS lif "ad infinitum." J All that has been accooplhVi rf& thou-h, has been the canccli i the annual jrame between the Ar. Em and -nvy, which was achcdulcl ft e: played xNoveinbor 27 on rranklio fia S ot the University of PennsVrri B ' iJut oven tliiH was, not acconplg 3 without a serious 'Inference of ortS Wfk as to what action the situation dek3 " cel. When Midshipman Wilson of? iNavy team sustained tlio injury uSlP,,i Villa Nova contest, which pbTj&JP1 say will ultimately result in bis dtjlp' f the Navy athletic nutlioritUs paB! quite explicitly that thev '3 ask for tho cancellation "of lb rJ1" even if Wilson died heforc tho pjrl 1 Call Off Games. I An entirely different attitoitu lit It taken by West Point immcdiaieirg ilk tor the tropic death of Bvrif, ijk tncklo who was killed in the gaae'ri fc'lrr Harvard West Point took th ja ifeiai that it. would be showing onlyttcn W ' respect to thoir dead comrade lo f-eel f-eel I ho remaining games The 5n piill acquiesced in this request, bat Hit & of the athlotie authorities froalj 'lie napolis tpok occasion to sar that Vt would not. havo acted the "fan;? aS fcjtti similar circumstances. Tho middini it m sumo a Spartan attitude on till fa ofclil Linn. To them fnolhall is mKi!tl Seiioi part of thoir hardening cour. uf Hi,' I regard it .just as thev do eunnitzn lice, which they would nol Ibiakda ilitf linquishinp. nor would llicv be iUr4 ??. ' to do so. because it resulldiiQ H death of a midshipman. We ?ni J' however, took an enl irely diffwi Ir'J view of I he situation ' fb The accident so saddened tl? In sJMJ authorities that they con?idw! were morel v payine ordinary Irlji ff. to liumanitarian instincts to ds B" n' thoir team. This. too. is tie toS SfcJJ ecnorul public, viewed the r.Wa If the caino still luid been plajHto Wl would have been nmnv iwsotiUi verely criticise Hie two acader& i a hard hearted uttiludo and J W valuation of human life Cannot Explain Deaths. '. A preat many of the dcfes&W iis, college football have been at a W' fcirsr explain .satisfactorily the vttn probably falal accident to meal !. at tho academies. It i generally JJ W. posed that Ilia students oi l ? f academies arc hardened in a J pfMta the members of ls college clereai 6h( not, and that, they arc able lo jjjj, knocks of every kind. rh w jjKn! onlv in a measure. Bvory ; mt West Point or Annapolis is oWaV 0e pass a verv 'rigid physical ciaci from which Hie impression tuP -ft8 that lhoy am immune to ajn 2t t Anvon'o who has studied W ? nm siques Of the Army and WTJ jKf aud who is acquainted with U h of hard work which these o hrivo to do can understand toff ri0D Ienco of injuries m their tiles marl I v t he average player on A 1 and iS'avy elevens is yonje.4J5 .r than the average on the WV I U elevens. Probably deceived V " Jjja, lief that an amount ot nam irnr. iuiuro them it has become ;tu t at both West Point aud Aog id t! the loams lo do , men' wo.J R iJon, the collegians. Also they nltf Bu ,er schedule than i do most o jo o. of I heir size. Tn tat), A W Nan co.un.on for West Point to Fga Uhek vard, Vale and some olhcrBf- Wonr, the "Big Six" on succcetojg days and before lm 'E"1?1 chance to becomo hardened f-P. h wiiito reather. JJ ;a c On top of this tho rtpjffSlli,, 1 two I cuius arc imloa with W thai thev are showing the ""JA Wtx, or when'thoy leave the gfjg, fef ing injured. It is mi. J thl Oay Ann v tackle, had ",r. ffi knoclccd out inifhe Hnrv3fd ke that Donovan. CS seeing his he.lpless.condil ornj g.y3 the referee to jnsist. J,ggiT 4 !Jf the held. Tl was nnni j eft this that tho yo.niR soM" ; , rf d his fatal injury. ,lP11fAe io Trainer Mike Murphy 01 ." sity of ronusylvania f ffi , ape rninark to the writer w . jj ieeT if football nccigjjj tt sist that he he pherf M a fresh man, even if "f tb skill. It is the WbJ frr caution tliat is rcsponaWf football accident. fft |
