Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-02
BYRNE'S FUNERAL
Will Be Held at II A. M.
Today at West Point,
Condition Of Midshipnnan VIII
son Shows Little Change.
The West Point-AnnapoIis Football
Schedule to Be Cancelled.

West Point, n. Y, Nov. 1.-The Mil
itary Academy is mourning today the
loss of Cadet Eugene A. Byrne, who
died yesterday as > result OF injuries
received Saturday in the football game
Wilh Harvard.
Many tclcgIan:s expressing sorrow
Wt", received today by Colonel Hugh
l.. Scott, superintendent Of ne acaG-
envy. and James A. Byrne, the dead
| cadets father who, with the young
mans mother, viii remain with the
body until it is buried tomorrow with
fun military honors in the West Point
Academy cemetery The funeral scr
wees Will be held at II A. Nj.
Cadet Blrrc's L"dy was taken to-
day ;indrr escort Of his classmates, as
q guard of honor, from the hospital to
the CathClc chapel on the post
grounds, where it VIII lie in state I'M
til the military funeral tomorrow
The ceremony will be an imposing
one. The church services will be at
tended by the members Of Cadet
Byrnc's class. From the church the
body in hag draped, flower banked cof-
fin on an artillery caisson drawn by
Point cemetery by the entire Cadet
corD.. headeG ny the Academy Band
and followed by the family and mourn
ers and all Of the officers of TIE post
The Cadet Corps will fire three volleyS
over The grave and the final tribute
VIII be the sounding of taps by the
trumpeter.
Members oi the graduating class will
serve as the active pail bearers. All eX-
erCises except those Of necessity are
suspended for the day, the half-mastcd
lag proclaimin9 the reason for the
cessation OF the academic activities.
The suspension Of duties and recita-
tons viii continue until after the flu
neral.
Cupt. Scott said today that he had
received no official communications re-
garding Cadet Byrnc's accidental
death, or upon the football situation
and scarcely expected any during the
day. He was emphatic in declaring thar
he considered football too valuable a
sport TO bc dropped from the academy's
list. Louis Byrne, borther of the deac
cadet, arrived here from Buffalo to-
day and joined his parents in their
tllotl illlS. lllt StNpI III ttlti w est HOlnr
cemetery Where Cadet Hyrne's body
Will lie was selected by them this
morning.
1t was officially announced today at
the Academy that West FONT viii plan
no more football games this season
II is not thought. however. from what
Colonel Scott said today, that he would
advocate the complete abandonment of
the sport. Speaking Of Young Byrne'4
death, Colonel Scott said
''Th" accident was 50 sudden and
we are in so much SORROW that moth
ing else has been considered but tIls.
arrangements for the funeral. IL was
just such an accident as might have.
occurred in a game between tWo teams
Of oHr own men.
This is the first serious accident
that has occurred az West FONT dur
ing the many years thlt football has
hrcn played. Football fosters the MANLY
virtues that are especially necessary In
war. ana we know of no manly game
thai is free from aCcidcnt.'
post Wortem examination showed
hat tn" second and third ccrlical YER
tcDre had been fractured and the res
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