Sport: Football Meetings

Holding their annual meetings concurrently in New York, members of the American Football Coaches Association, Sportsmanship Brotherhood, National Collegiate Athletic Association and Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football spent three days last week talking about football.

Casualties. To the coaches, Professor Floyd R. Eastwood of New York University, who has been compiling statistics on the subject for five years, read the results of his investigation of football deaths and injuries. In the 1935 season, 30 players were killed, five more than in 1934. There were 55,440 injuries to players on 66,000 high school teams, 9,900 injuries to players on 829 college teams. Injuries caused footballers to lose a total of 1,000,000 days of education.

Drunkenness at football games, President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette, speaking to the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, blamed on nonalumni visitors.

Professionalism in college football was scrupulously denounced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which appointed a special committee of three to study "influences . . . inimical to the best interests of collegiate sport," and report to the next convention.