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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...injuries were received in various ways: some in open play, some in the mechanical drill of "tackling the dummy," but a very great proportion occurred in the "bunch" or "pile" which forms after a player running the ball is tackled. The surgeons very quickly got in the way of watching every pile with great interest and apprehension. The exact proportion between the injuries received in the open and in the pile, however, is not controlled by accurate figures. The number of injuries received in the games and in practice were proportionately about the same...
...These bruises were sufficient to keep the player out of the game...
...entire season in which a case of concussion of the brain did not occur. There were several noticeable features in these cases. Frequently, the fact that a man had received a serious head injury was noticed by the surgeon from the side-lines before it was recognized by the players. This was due to the fact that a player might, apparently, automatically run through a considerable series of plays before his mates noticed that he was mentally irresponsible. The mental state of the players who had concussion was variable, some being highly excitable and hysterical, others merely confused...
Dislocation of the outer end of the collar bone.--Partial and complete dislocations of the outer end of the collar bone were extremely numerous and were received in a variety of ways, some while tackling in the open, but the greater number of them were caused by the players having one shoulder caught in the pile with a mass of men fall in upon the unprotected shoulder. In but two cases was the dislocation a complete one, and in one of those cases the player received it very early in the game and finished a twenty-minute half with...
Sprained ankles.--The injuries of this type were not, on the whole, severe, and in no case was a player kept out of the scrimmage for any considerable length of time. The ankles were treated by heat, massage and by strapping, although in one case a special apparatus, somewhat resembling a valgus shoe, was worn by a player throughout the greater portion of the season...