Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-01
INA" NEWELL KILLED.
Hurvard's Most Famous Football
PLAYER Crushed by Engine.

Player Crushed by Engine.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Dee. 30-Marshall
Newell, the famous Harvard football player
in years gone by and graduate Of the class
of 81. has just been killed in the West
Springfield yard. near the bridge across
division superintendent OF the Bos-
ton & Albany road. a position
which he mad held for year. He had been
killed by the "Scoot' train from Wrstiield.
it was shown, several of his toes being found
on the tracks OF the train. just how ne met
his death is not known. His body was found
on the north track OF the railroad, about 30
feet west of the switching tower.
He was killed about $50 p. IN. The
left leg was crushed below the knee and the
toes of the right foot were ground to pulp,
The face was dsligured beyond recognition,
but the skull was not crushed. Inc cloth
ing was torn to shreds. The shoes and
stockings were literally ground from the feet.
Mr. Newel's father, Samuel Newell, was
New York lawyer but about II years ago
moved from his home in Chiffon, \.
j., to Great Darlington, where he bought
farm about two miles outside ofthe vii age.
Mr.. Newell, senior, died ii years ago.
Marshall Newell was born in Clifton, \. D.,
q years ago. He worked on his fathers
farm during his college vacations. He was
called the finest tackle the gridiron has ever
seen and also rOwed in the winning varsity
crew. Perhaps no young man has gone out
from the Cambridge university in the
last ten years more widely known than
Marshall Newell Over there. where he
spent the four years that brought him into
such prominence, he was almost idolized,
and from the day when he was graduated at
Harvard in 1894, he made friends wherever
his lot threw him. All who knew him. even
very little, admired and respected him.
Those whose privilege it was to know him
4 han
about ''Ma' Newell. He was square, fear
less and honest every day il the year. ana
as you found him today, You were sure to
find him tomorrow and the next day, and
the next day and so on every day.
His character correspondent exactly
with his magnificent physique and was
shown always in his football playing. Had
there been the slightest grain OF meanness
in his makeup it would have crept out at
some time in his football career, where his
great ability and phenomenal strength would
have aided any disposition leaning towards
unfarness, But never was there II suspicion
Of his football playing, which was model
that has ever since been held up TO MS sue.
cessors at Cambridge. When in the fall OF
1890, Captain Cumnock's victorious football
eleven came back from Springfield after
defeating Yale, enough praise WAS showered
upon MA" Newell to have turned the head
of most boys, but he showed even then the
good, solid common sense which was ever
one of his strong characteristics. HOnOrs
rested lightly on his broad shoulders, which
carried many throughout his college course,
even to his class day, when he was one OF
| the three marshalS chosen by his classmates
as the three most popular men among them.
! When Mr.. Newell first graduated he went to
work for Loren +. Deland in the latter : AL
yertising agency. but the work was not con
genial to one OF his breezy, out door habits,
Ia ,upht npti i've pmDlDymtnt.