Fewer Football Fatalities Marred This Year's Games

Although many more teams have been playing football this year than a year ago, only nine football players were killed in the entire country this fall, as against 15 last season. The nine who met death as the result of gridiron injuries ranged from 11 to 21 years of age and with two or three exceptions the deaths came as the result of poor conditions. A lack of training for serious football competition is, according to experts, responsible for nearly 90 per cent. of all deaths from football.

None of the deaths in 1915 occurred to members of big, well-trained college elevens. In most cases the players were on high school, amateur, or independent teams where there is little or no system of physical development.