Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-10-25 | Page 10 | College Football is Made Safer by 1932 Regulations

College Football Is Made Safer by 1932 Regulations Only One OUe Fatality in iii University Ranks This Season Sandlot and Prep Casualties Display No Improvement NEW V YORK Oct 25 AP So AP-So So far as the colleges are concerned the new football code apparently has pUshed Its primary purpose of making the game for forthe forthe the he players but high school and sandlot football seems Just about as hazardous as before Of ot the eleven fatalities so far reported reported re reo re- re ported attributable directly or indirectly indi to football only one has occurred occurred oc oc- oc in college ranks where the new rules are strictly effective The others all came in high school or sandlot games where proper supervision supervision super super- vision and training is much more difficult dif- dif and in the case of sandlot contests con- con tests at least virtually impossible DRASTIC CHANGES The fifty tifty fatalities charged to football football foot foot- ball last year led to a series of drastic changes in the rules during the win win- ter cr eliminating the flying wedge on kickoffs flying blocks and tackles punches on th the necks of linemen linemen linemen line line- men and an overhauling of the sped specie for tor equipment to make it safer With the season now at the half hal halfway halfway way mark these rules seem to have eliminated many of the hazards of the game as it is played in the colleges under strict supervision The only fatality in college ranks was that of Hugh Martin 1 Williams 18 a freshman at Loyola of the South who died of Internal injuries after being kicked in the abdomen during a practice drill against the varsity varity Five high school players two sandlot sand sand- lot ot competitors two lads competing In n neighborhood games and an academy academy acad acad- emy player in Honolulu also have been fatally injured since the season opened Head injuries caused most of these th deaths while several others I were caused by the failure of the Inured injured In in- player to receive treatment after minor hurts The complete list of fatalities so soar far ar reported with the reported cause follows Hugh Martin Williams IB 18 Loyola university of ot New Orleans internal in injuries juries Bob Houtz 17 Alhambra Cal Cat high school senior broken neck Thomas Bagwell 16 St. St Louis high school fractured vertebra Fred 18 academy academy academy acad acad- emy Honolulu cerebral hemorrhage George C. C Dunham 17 Minneapolis olis oils high school internal injuries Foster Stewart 18 Ga high school heart trouble ONE NEBRASKA YOUTH Leland 16 Scotts Scott's Bluff Neb high school general infection after bruise Theodore Temple 26 a 1 t Zygmunt g k 19 9 Detroit sandlot brain concussion James Dunn 12 Chicago neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood game meningitis after blow between between be be- tween eyes Raymond Gwozdz 14 Clinton Mass neighborhood game blood poisoning poisoning poisoning poi poi- after aUer game