Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-07 | Page 15 | Fatal Accident at University of Idaho

FATAL ACCIDENT AT UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO C. I. Lyman, In Football Scrimmage Against Orders, Receives Injuries From Which He Dies. Special to Th Trlbun. MOSCOW. Idaho, Oct. I. C. I. Lyman, aajed K. of Idaho Falls. sophomoT at th Idaho unlvaralty. dld at SrSO o'clock thta aTfralng aa th result ot an BMUaat on the football field at the Taratty 'n a acrimmaije between tbs flrat and second tdroi in practice. Ha had been put oat of the j frame by ' Coach Blshold and senL to th ' side lines. Lrmen waa refugei perrnlaalon to jro into the trame. but In hia eDthualaam he slipped to the op-poalte op-poalte " : of the field and, unnoticcil, took hia plac In the line. Stanley 13rowQ of the regulars ha4 the bell for an end run. Lyman dutved toward to-ward him. hi head atrlkinic Brown on the knee. He wait kno'-kd uncoaacloua and. though physl-clana physl-clana worked on him for more than an hour and a half, he never regained cons'-louaneeB. He was taken to the university gym, where be died. Physl-rlarjs Physl-rlarjs think be suffered a fracture at tho boat of the skull. He played on the acruo team laet year here. Prtrvioualy be was alar player on the Idaho Falla team four years. It la feared here that Idaho football for thltt Tear fa doomod a a re-reeult re-reeult of the accident, though the school baa the strongest team in years.