Show 0 u FIGU FIGURES RES ON 1910 FOOTBALL From the Kansas City Star In a review of the football season of 1910 prepared for a New York medical society Dr M. M J. J Clurman of New York declares that th the family tree of college athletics would be greatly benefited by the lopping off of one distorted and unhealthy branch football He finds that d de despite despite de- de spite the much vaunted new rules there were nineteen deaths and four hundred injuries during the past year while almost every man man who wh played is physically weaker for the severe stress s of the game I Doctor Clurman advocates the adoption of cf sports which have less of violent exercise in in them for a few picked men en but abundant eien eie exer n 1 students students' of a college or university else cise for r all continues lIe le been deaths from tn there ro jid have v o oI 1905 ri f I Since S1 hundred serious injuries What and nd nine football could be a advanced in favor of arguments i ie possible p these figures to offset football the attraction for football is exactlY exi ex- ex After all as as- as that as-that that which ancients had for fora forlie same sanle i the a cUy contests and which the Spa Spa-i- gladiatorial iA lie le for the bull fight A football game is have Cely fight multiplied by eleven a prize S merelY tremendous fatigue connected with There is a I playing of the game and the severe physical the less various for forms s of heart disease stress tress develops season is over the hearts of the players play- play fter the having no longer such a severe stress find ers I j accompanied by undergo changes pon them pon degeneration generation While this criticism might fatty tty d be advanced against several other sports it pree pre- pre e applies to football 0 |