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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...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, left yesterday for West Point, where he will attend the funeral of Cadet Richard Brinsley Sheridan this afternoon. The services will be held in the chapel of the Military Academy and interment will be in the Academy graveyard, where many famous soldiers and generals have been buried...
...Cadet Richard Brinsley Sheridan, whose neck was broken making a tackle in the Yale Bowl last Saturday, died yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in spite of all efforts to save...
...reference to the death of the cadet, who played a brilliant game against Harvard the week before, W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, said, "The passing of Richard Brinsley Sheridan is tragic; West Point has lost a cadet worthy of her finest traditions and an athletic admired by his competitors as an outstanding sportsman...
With but two practice periods remaining before the encounter with a strong West Point eleven, stiffest third game scheduled in several years, Team A yesterday went through an extensive dummy scrimmage aimed at perfecting the defense against Army plays. Coach Knox's seconds represented a Cadet team which has shown 28 different running plays and 26 types of forward passes in its three appearances this season...