Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine.
John Stuart Mill · en
Football claimed thirteen victims in the season which is now practically
over. Two of the players killed were on college teams. The others were
either members of high-school, preparatory, or “free-lance” elevens.
Tackling was responsible for more deaths than anything else. The list of
fatalities is as follows:
Floyd McGinnis, only son of James McGinnis, a merchant of Ada, Ohio.
Young McGinnis was tackled in a practice game September 21st, and was
thrown hard. He rose from the ground, ran a few steps, and then fell
dead.
Ray Allen, nineteen years old, of the Stanley High School, Sapulpa,
Okla. He was tackled in a game played against the Tahlequah Indians
October 3d, and died thirty-five minutes after being thrown.
Albert Wiseman, Sac City, Iowa, High School, suffered concussion of the
brain when thrown in a game played October 9th. He died on October 10th.
Charles C. Hays, eighteen years old, a student in Fordham University, N.
Y., preparatory school. Hays played in a game against St. Peter’s
College eleven October 12th. He tackled the runner, and others fell on
top of him. A kick in the stomach caused injuries from which he died
October 14th.
Carroll Olson, twenty years old, a player in the Milwaukee, Wis.,
Amateur Football League. Olson sustained a fractured skull in a
scrimmage in a game at Lane Park October 11th, and died the following
day.
William S. English, of Troy, N. Y., and member of the senior class of
Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Md., was injured in a class game
on the campus of the college October 12th, and died an hour after he had
been hurt. He was not a member of the regular team.
Michael Kennedy, twenty years old, Pittsburgh, Pa., died October 20th
after an injury sustained in a practice game in Lawrence Park, October
17th. Kennedy, when he was hurt, was running with the ball and made a
line plunge. In doing so, his head was bent against his body, and
paralyzation set in.
Lester Koehler, seventeen years old, and quarter back of a Detroit,
Mich., high school, died October 29th, after sustaining injuries in a
game a week previous. He received a blow on the head which developed
into paralysis.
Dudley Gothrup, McAllen, Texas, eighteen years old, died almost
immediately after having been tackled and thrown in a game November 1st.
James Levery, nineteen years old, of Ambridge, Pa., died in a hospital
at Pittsburgh, November 2, having been injured in a football game at his
home October 31st. He was jumped on in a scrimmage and his back was
broken.
Fred Treece, seventeen years old, and quarter back of New Brighton, Pa.,
High School football team, died November 15th in a New Brighton
hospital. Treece collided head on with a player from the New Wilmington
High School in a game November 14th, sustaining a concussion of the
brain.