The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-11-04
FOOTBALL PLAYER
DIES OF INJURIES
CADET BYRNE OF WEST PolNI
TEAM HAS NECK BROKEN IN
SATURDAYS GAME.
WAR ON GRlDIRON IS BEGUN.
Enemies of Pigskin Have Been Aroused
to Activity, but Sport Also Finds
Its Defenders.
COL. SCOTT TALKS OF TRAGEDY.


| WEST POINT, y. y, Nov. l.-Cadet
/ Eugene A. Byrne Of Buffalo. \. J.. a
! fourth-year man at the United States
! Military academy dlcu III lhe caue' ms
pital at $50 Sunday morning, sacrlhce
/ TO football. The army is accustomed to
( daath hnt NOT in This deplorable form,
,1 ~ .,. 8 .bo gr;diron has
ana TINS Tragedy Oh tne ~,
brought such poignant sriei ~ -
and cadets alike that the end OF loot l;t
/ at West Point and Annapolis Is pfeulct-
ed by many. ~. ,o,,,,,oa
The fatal accident 70 byIle, WIZ W.,
with the fact that Midshiplnan " llsGll
OF the Naval academy Is eAPetaeu , ~
OF similar injury received 1"o ,, "eGns
ago, mas once more aroused 'nt Inc
% I9otpuiI 10 A't'nl'S S,,, an" cnIIege OH
FOUND many defenders auioh7 'o'''eo
CHS , ;,,.+ -. ,bo sun
was rising over The hills along the Hud-
son, with his griei-strickeh father' JONI jon
Byrne, civil war veteran at LIS p''
side 40
Byrnes iather N"re ihe slioch w - ~
fatality with forttude' out ne H"s -,
~ laborlng under great mental "n5 u 49,,
sunday Afternoon "Aen ne of en- of the
NIUE fallroad stal'2n ~ 'ne ot i Of The
NH 10 meet Mrs, bSt D"noio carly
eiclli,l. MIs. bGl' 80 ot 2.90 o'clock
sunday ana reacheu mere 1T "''0
III the AFTERNOON
Parents Sad Meeting.
Tho meeting between the bereaved pa
rents was offecting. but each endeavored
to console the other in their grief, as
with bowed heads they ascended the hill
to the bier of Their boy.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday
with fuII military honors. Mgr. &. q.
O'I[eefe. in charge of the Catholic chap
dis in This vicinity. will ofiiciate.
col Scott, discussing the tragedy last
n;ght said.
'"rhis is the first serious accident West
Point has had during the many years
fnmthoIi hos bapn nioyed here. 1t is
aonS;darad tbat football bestirs those
many virtues especially needed in war,
and we know Of no manly game in
which accidents do not occur"
~ ~. :. p,o,,
p..r, n'sN 80 49, ~ mss r,ov on
tortIa niay tTgr is common enough in
football and which had been used sew
oral times in tLe zane previous to the
accident. Ryrne Standing valiantly as
left tackle for the Army. was forced I'M
der tbe rush of crimson players and the
strong Iignments of the yertebral column
snapned with the pressure and almost
comrlete PARALYSIS ensued.
His injury. Witnessed as it was by the
fother and the hundreds who gathered
here to see the ARMY struggle against
Harvard was dramatic in The extreme.
Whom the snectaturs realized TINT the
sbncl was serious the cheering stands
We're hushed as if by magic. A few min
ntes later Ryrne was carried unconscious
from the field and the spectators filed 81
leutlv down to the station, leaving a de-
serted football field. where laughter and
waving college pennants had made a gay
picture before, the accident. 80 !,
o,,na nmum ,ror I'll. NTH reIaus of cnno.
FL se o,tonaonts aharad over Rvrna
uto ,,ho,,t tLn n;gbt conso;ors ~
t .hrousIout roa oi ~ soronsneso of he
eiiiig? ne 4e'N th niI..ioiaps a,5J
,o,,t ~ TT aId viii a Sr,iin and
hupt a. ti'I "Iaoring word enno,Iroaad
an VtG "a t,; 80,
lheph III li''ii 'a"o's
Knew Death Was Near.
,rho s,,r,,,.ons raoIizei oe the hours