The Georgia legislature to ban the “brutal” sport of football

From The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins.  Page 169.

As the courthouse emptied out, Journal pigeon posts fluttered past the windows—the first four pages of tonight’s issue would be devoted to the case, shoving aside every other national and international story, including a Spanish overture to President McKinley, a nearly unanimous vote by the Georgia legislature to ban the “brutal” sport of football, and word that infamous outlaw “Dynamite Dick” had been gunned down by lawmen in the wilds of the Indian Territory. With tomorrow’s witnesses slated to be a parade of doctors and professors, the capital circumstantial case was turning historic.