Show THOMAS SHE SHEVLIN YALE COACH IS DEAD Contracted Cold While I Training Y ICY T Team earn for I Games Last Fall MINNEAPOLIS Dec 29 Thomas Thomas L. L Shevlin of Minneapolis millionaire lumberman and Yale football c ach died at his home here hero of pneumonia this morning Mr Shevlin contracted a cold while training the Yale football football foot ball squad last fall Since the days when he wore a Vat Y V Yat at Yale Vale Shevlin had always stood ready to come to the aid of his tiis alma mater mater as as' as football adviser and coach Last Las fall he struggled hard to whip the Yale aggregation into shape to meet Harvard and the subsequent overwhelming d defeat feat preyed on hi his his- mind During Durin training he lost twelve pounds The rest in California did him good but because of business matters at home he cut short his vacation and came home still in in-a in a somewhat weakened condition Probably no more sensational athlete athlete athlete ath ath- lete ever played on Yale teams than Thomas Lee Shevlin He was all round star In athletics being Identified Identified fied fled while white at Yale with virtually every branch of sport However his greatest fame came from prowess on the gridiron For four years he was accorded the honor of being picked d for all American end Shevlin played on the Yale team for four seasons beginning with 1902 As a senior he captained the eleven During his career Yale defeated Harvard Harvard Haryard Har Har- vard yard four times and Princeton three times U One the Yale track team and crew Shevlin also shone as a star earning earning earn earn- ing a Y in each He played on on the baseball team in his freshman year After his graduation Shevlin was held responsible for several victories for the school on the gridiron Twice he came out of the Northwest to pull the Ells Elis Ells Ells' out of the mire His work last fall falI In leading Yale to victory over Princeton is of recent memory nemory Mr Shevlin was 32 years old and andis is survived by a widow and two and two chil chil- dren His Illness assumed serious assumed serious proportions last Thursday and si since ce then he had been gradually declining Yesterday he suffered a relapse and a Chicago specialist hurried to this city by special train I After leaving Yale at the close of the football season Mr Shevlin went to California to rest Last Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day he returned to his home here and the following day was taken sick with pneumonia A number of of physIcians physicians clans were summoned to attend him but the patient gradually sank until death came ame today U U Shevlin played football at Ya Yale e four years being captain during his last year in 1905 when Yale had one of the greatest teams in Its history |