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Football Fatalities.Football statistics gatnerpd during the past season by the American Medical Association show that there occurred thirty-five deaths during last year, and over five hundred severe accidents to players. Besides these deaths, there were eleven cases of spinal injuries, followed by paralysis, which in most cases seems to have proved permanent, and, consequently, worse than death. There were 313 fractures, most of them of the bones of the leg and forearm. There were ninety-one cases of the fracture of the clavicle, nineteen fractures of the femur and four of the skull. It is, of course, impossible to estimate accurately the number of permanent injuries received in these accidents, but when it is considered that many of the fractures were compound, and nineteen of them of the femur, it must be that in this class alone the percentage of permanent injuries could not be very low. It can be said, without exaggeration, that at least fifty deaths or permanent total disabilities resulted from the football games of 1903 inthis country. That’s paying dear for what is called “sport.”
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Warren Mail
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1904
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