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Show TOLL OF FOOTBALL IN 1918 IS NINE Three Less Than in 1917; Nine Less Than Casualties Casual-ties of 1916 Season. CHICAGO. Dee; 14 Football churned the lives of nine players dtirine the 1!MX season- three . than the 1317 toll, nine i h thvn In HMfi nnd pcv n under the toil of Hla according to futures com- piled by the Associate. I'ress today, 'in llt there were fifteen deaths. Y.rtuully all tf the victims were "free lance" players not part icipat inie 'in L'im's conducted under college and university physk-nl direction. Some of Hum had only lim.tcl knowlcdtje of the parne. "The figures 'will continue to de-. de-. crease until fata lit tea In "America's rouchest outdoor (tame have been entirely en-tirely eliminated." eaid A. A. St. ice. the vil-nn football coach nt t'i-I t'i-I 'niversli y of Chicaero, today. He added that the f-reatt-st menace; to rhe rame is the luck of riroper tralninir an t physical examination. While some of the la rarer hich schools now require re-quire phvKical examination, in most of the smaller citica this ia entirely ignored. |