frldly. December 5. "63 --—-—- . SCARLET AND ILACK Page Iiuven By Len Calodney In examining the possibility of putting face masks on the IM football helmets, we may now consider the problem from three aspects: 1) how other schools have solved the problem, 2) what illie coaches. medical personnel and insurance agents for the college think about the suggestion, and a) how much it would cost. The simplest way to prevent intramural football injuries is to not play the sport. This may have been the reason why Knox never started football, but began their volleyball season in the fall. The school may also have felt that in this way they woud be more likely to get all those of varsity caliber out for football. Princeton, on the other hand, has gone one step farther and out~ fitted lM players with shoulder pads as well as helmets. This much equipment, besides being expensive, might make the game a bit too rough for Grinnell's bloodo Football coach Edd Bowers is against the suggestion. He fears that the addition of a face guard will give the IM player more confidence for a head on charge, and Uhereby making the helmet more of a weapon. He feels (shat if the problem is not with broken noses or knocked-out teeth, the face guard probably won’t help too much, even though it would ward off a direct blow. John Pfitsch (Athletic Director) suggests that we should con- centrate on injuries over all rather than in one specific area, and would rather see teaching and coaching used as a means to pre- vent iniury, Noting that football is the best part of the IM pro- gram, Pfitsch says it teaches many boys who never played a Contact sport in high school what it means. Pfitsch added that he would like to see the IM chairmen come to the athletic staff for help in running their teams, or for a clinic to be held for 1M coaches. As the one who is the first to treat those fallen in battle, Mrs. Irma Hall (Head Nurse) favors the move, She said she would support anything to help ieduce the number or injuries. John C. Truesdale (Physical Education) has quoted the cost of a single bar guard at $2. 25 Therefore the total cost for the 75 to 90 helmets would be about $150 200 Since the helmets now used are varsity castoffs, they have holes for face guard instal- lation already drilled, so that additional work would not be necessary. Obviously the athletic department would not be able to budget this much in one year for the purchase of a sulricient number of face guards. However, the Insurance Company of North Amer- ica, which handles Grinnell’s insurance business might be Willing to help conduct an experiment here to see if face guards would have some effect on injury rate, Fred P. Ramsey (Ramsey Insurance Agency) mentioned that the North American company had donated to Grinnell’s Ford Foundation matching fund, but didn‘t know whether the company would be Willing to sponsor this proposed experiment, Since this company is paying $100 a year for head injuries at Grinneii, and even though this figure means virtually nothing to the organiza- tion in comparison to its total volume of business, could we iri-~ terest the company in donating the equally miniscuie sum or $50, enough for face guards on two strings of helmets? (NEXT WEEK: How shall the experiment he conducted? The scientif' m thod in tll t'cs. DON'T LET THE COLD CATCH YOU NAPPING Have Your Winter Wardrobe Cleaned Now of CLAIRE'S CLEANERS College Pick-up and Delivery ,7 Matmen By Ken Clymer The Pioneer grapplers opened their IBGIHM season by copping fourth place in the Knox In- vitational Wrestling Tourna- ment l8 5 t weekend behind champion Augustana, Cornell, and MacMurray. Sixteen teams were invited. Coach Edd Bowers said later that he was not unhappy with the team’s performance and expected it would enough to give Cornell a battle for the conference champione ship. Last year Grinnell fine ished second behind Cornell. Grinnell’s only individual champion was 167 lb. Larry Miller. Miller defeated four opponents on his way to the crown. sophomore Ken Strubler lost to the 1311 iii. di- vision winner iiut went on to capture third place. will Van Horn (147 11).), Jeff Lewis (167 lb.) and Morgan Michel (Hwt.) all were awarded fourth places. Grinnell was forced to forfeit the 157 in. division when both Ken Cly- mer and Keith Zolla were in- jiired in practice. 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