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Show FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS x DUE TO INEXPERIENCE ' Inexperience Is the cause .of more . fatalities In football than any. other thjng." said Edward Van Duzen, formerly for-merly the heavy guard" at Northwestern Northwest-ern university, this morning-. "Football Is a good game If played fair and the men Are well trained.. Care-' Care-' less players, there are a few. meet - Vith accidents that are their own fault, "kr.t have found that the most of the ecldents are due to Inexperience. "Irt the last game the famous Pat O'Dea, the -Wisconsin kicker, played with Chicago a few years ago, the Chicago Chi-cago team tried in every way to put him out of business.' His experience of four years . on a 'Varsity team stood him well and he emerged from the game unscathed. , "The accident that happened at Oak Park. 111., last Saturday, in which Vernon Ver-non Wise, a high school student, was killed, was plainly a case of inexperience. inexpe-rience. The Hyde Park team, which was opposing Wise's team, might have Splayed fierce ball, but the young man did not have the, experience of his opponents. op-ponents. "It is a setback for football In Chicago Chi-cago that will require years to recover from. This is the second accident in the Chicago high" schools in three years. A fatal accident occurred in a practice game at the EnglewOod high school three years ago. Chicago was Just recovering re-covering from this accident when the last event happened. "This high school has produced such men as Walter MacCornack, the famous fa-mous coach and football authority; Graves of Ann Arbor, and Coach Albert Wadfiworth of Champaign. "Utah has one of the old Englewood stars, who afterward won honors at the University of Michigan. Ha Is Clayton Letzell of Provo, He has been the athletic ath-letic director of the B. Y. academy." |