Quarterback Kid Huff saved a touchdown in the Vanderbilt game when he tackled the large Wallace Crutchfield.
More notices to the story read, "HUMAN BLOOD STAINS GRIDIRON" and "Horrors of the Foot Ball Field Have Given Rise to an Agitation in Favor of Abolishing the Game" and "BEEN FORBIDDON IN SOME COLLEGES."
Just as the desire for the superseding, of war by arbitration to straightening out international complications had its birth in the grief and tears of the widow and the fatherless, so does the above question owe its origin to those who have been seen promising young men cut off in the prime or their youth, or maimed for life by the disparate struggle for football honors.
Year after year the list of victims grow, until the matter has at last attracted national attention and in the absence of laws, declaring that young men may not risk life and limb in the gridiron contests some college authorities are forbidding the students to play football, and thus it comes about that institutions that have been prominent in this branch of sport will not be heard of during the present season.
"A study of the casualties of the football fields proves that those who oppose the game on account of its brutality and danger are justified in their views.
"The list could have been extended halfway down the column, and a perusal of the news pages of the daily journals will show that deaths or injuries, broken bones, dislocated shoulders, smashed noses and sprained ankles are of daily occurrence among football players.
"Were it not for the fact that football men of the colleges are young giants who have hardened their muscles and rendered themselves proof against lighter injuries by reason of the fact that they are trained athletes, and have practiced falling and tackling so as to reduce the possibility of accident to a minimum, the list would be much larger.
The most anticipated game in the South was the matchup between last season's two southern champions, Virginia and Vanderbilt, in Louisville.
During the Theodore Roosevelt administration (1905) a meeting was held at the White House with various college athletic officials in attendance to discuss the violence in football.
Roosevelt urged them to curb excessive violence and set an example of fair play for the rest of the country.