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Show me play.' I am going to play the game of my life.' Then, to put him out of. business, six men fell upon him. and when v the twilight fall the boy waa dead, and a broken-hearted father waa Bobbing over his body. ' t : "The morning atories tell us that the Union college faculty decided not to tell the visiting team that the youth waa dead lest the knowledge that they had killed him disturb the 'smoker.' But a little episode, like another collegian col-legian or two killed in these v days, would not disturb in the slightest degree de-gree those who do not. play football as gentlemen play, or as scholars who hate unfairness and foul play." ANOTHER ROAST K" FOR FOOTBALL Player's Death Kept Quiet in Order Mot to Spoil : a "SmoSer. - - NEW TORK, Nov. 27. Football brutality bru-tality and disregard of . the .Christian Sunday by-owners and drivers of automobiles auto-mobiles were themes touched upon by Rev. Dr. N. D. Hlllis In Plymouth church. Brooklyn, yesterday. His subject sub-ject was the "Ten Commandments." - "Strange, passing strange," said Dr. Hlllis, "in this era of philanthropy and sympathy for the poor and weak, that men should have to reread the words, thou shalt not kill.' Terrible the need to remember the sanctity of life by reason rea-son of the killing of our young men In college; slain to make a Roman boll-day. boll-day. ' "Yesterday morning the papers eaia that thirty-four young collegians had been killed in football thus far this autumn. au-tumn. ( . "Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, the youth in Union college said to. his companions, Mv father is here. He has never seen |