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...High School team, cuffed to death by Garfield Jennings, 20, vexed linesman of the Taylorsville, N C. High School, which was playing Statesville High. Almost all the other deaths followed bashings on the football field. Most discussed of the deaths from violence were those of Army's Richard Brinsley Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 2) and Fordham's Cornelius Murphy. Murphy, 22, died fortnight ago from a ruptured brain blood vessel. Eleven days prior he had been buffeted into unconsciousness. He was hospitalized for concussion of the brain, released prematurely...
Since the season started, nine football players have died of injuries received in play. When Cadet Richard Brinsley Sheridan died of a broken neck received in the Army-Yale game last fortnight a movement began to eliminate the kickoff, admittedly the most dangerous play in football. Five of the nine members of the football rules committee last week said that they oppose any such change...
Lassiter caught the Army kick-off and was downed on the Yale 22-yd. line. Lassiter got up but an Army end who had tried to tackle him did not. He, Richard Brinsley Sheridan,* of Augusta, Ga., lay motionless, sprawled on his back. The Army trainer ran out from the sidelines, knelt beside Sheridan. Then two cadets lifted Sheridan onto a stretcher and carried him off the field. The game continued and ended...
...Whose ancestors were no relatives of Playwright Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1810), nor of Union General Philip Henry Sheridan...
...Richard Brinsley Sheridan will be buried with full military rights today. No one deserves these honors more than he. Through its athletic director Harvard will pay its official homage in person. He will communicate Harvard's sorrow to West Point; sorrow over astragic event which halted a courageous young man's life...