Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-01
CALL OFF ALL GAMES
West Point Through With Foot
Ball for Season.
DEATH OF CADET BYRNE
Military Academy in Mourning for
Saturdays Victim.
MAY PUT AN END TO SPORT
Possibility That Games Between the
Army and Navy Academies May
Be Prohibited in Future.

WEST POINT y. Y. November l.
The Military Academy is mourning to-
day the loss OF Cadet Eugene A. Byrne,
who died yesterday of injuries received
Saturday in the foot ball game with
Harvard.
Many kilograms expressing sympathy
and sorrow were received today by Col.
Hugh L. Scott, superintendent OF the
academy, and James A. Byrne. the dead
cadets father. who. with the young mans
mother, will remain with the body until
1t is buried tomorrow with full military
honors in the West Point Academy ceme-
terry.
1t was officially announced today at
the academy that West Point will play
no more foot ball games this season. 1t
is not thought, however, that Col Scott
will advocate the complete abandonment
Of the sport.
Telegram to Annapolis.
1t was announced that Col. Scott had
sent the following telegram to Capt.
Bowyer. at Annapolis last night:
WEST POINT, October 81. 1909.
superintendent. Naval Academy, Anna
polls, Md:
''On account Of the sorrow over the loss
out of respect to his memory, West Point
desires to cease playing foot ball for the
remainder of this season.
III. /. SCOTT. Colonel. U. 8. A.
Superintendent United States Military
Academy
Cadet Byrne died at 6:35a.m. yester-
day morning in the post hospital, where
he was taken from the field. He had
been kept alive from the time he was
| injured by artificial respiration and was
c,io <nr chnr nd haf
he died. A post-mortem examination
| showed that the second and third cervical
vertebra had been fractured and the res
piratory nerves completely par9lyzed.
Military Funeral Tomorrow.
Cadet Byrne's body was taken today
under escort Of his classmates from the
cadet hospital to the Catholic chapel on
the post grounds, where 1t will lie in
state until the military funeral tomor-
row.
The church service will be attended by
the cadets of Byrne's class. The body
will be carried on an artillery caiSSon
and will be secorted to the West Point
cemetery by the entire cadet corps, head
ed by the academy band and followed
by the family and mOurners, and all oi
the officers of the post The cadet corps
will fire three volleys over the grave and
taps will be sounded.
Members OF the gra0uatlng class VIII
serve as the active pallbearers. All ex-
ercises except those of necessity are sus-
pended for the day.
The suspension of duties and recitations
will continue until after the funeral
Neither the Navy Department nor the
War Department had been called upon
late this afternoon to consider the pro-
posed cancellation of the foot ball game
between the Naval Academy and the
Military Academy. High ofhcials In both
departments said that the present mat
ter was for the superintehde of the
respective academies to determine, al
| though their action might Ibe referred to
Washington for approval.
At the Navy Department it was said
that inasmuch as West Point desired to
cancel its game with Annapolis nothing
remained to be done but td grant the re-
quest 1t was added that the rest of the
| schedule arranged by Annapolis would
L doubtless he Ifla Ned