Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Haven Hospital, where Sheridan was taken in an ambulance, he was attended by three doctors, one of whom was Dr. Harvey Cushing, famed brain and nerve specialist. The great Yaleman and disciple of the late great Sir William Osler was in New Haven for a surgeons' conference on the day of the game. Dr. Cushing found that Sheridan had a broken neck, said he might live, under artificial respiration, for minutes, hours or days. After 48 hours he died. He was buried with full military honors due a soldier fallen in the Service of his country...
...Whose ancestors were no relatives of Playwright Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1810), nor of Union General Philip Henry Sheridan...
...SHERIDAN - Joseph Hergesheimer - Houghton Mifflin...
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...