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Show Yale Football Squad Attends the Funeral of Theodore W. York By International News Service. ! NEW HAVICN, Nov. 1. Omitting all football work again today, the Yale foot-bull foot-bull squad and the. entire sophonioro class crowded Battel chapel this afternoon to attend the funeral of Theodore York, the football guard who died Wednesday night! The .services were conducted bv President Presi-dent Hadley and Secretary Stokes of the university. The body was taken to Maine for Interment Telegrams of condolence have, been received re-ceived from t lie Football association of Harvard and other universities. The Yalo Daily News today bitterly attacked tho report that football even remotelv caused York's death. Editorially It said: "A somewhat general rumor has spread abroad concerning the sad death of Theodore Theo-dore "Woodbury York. The phvalclans who attended Ihe case agree that what ff-ct football had was ra'tb,er to prolong York's life. Wo would have thla rumor among u stopped. It tends only to inflame in-flame the sorrow that we all feel "keenly." A statement was. made, today by one of the. physicians in charge of Yor'k'o case asserting that the football training alone enabled him to make the bravo fight for life he continued for ten days. lie. said; "Only for York's splendid physical condition, duo to football, he could not havo withstood pneumonia so long." The team learned tonight that. It would be impossible for "Doc" Cornish to plav again this season. Tho entire coaching zrjua1. McDevltt, Scully. Yaugran and IJpifleflngcr. left here this evening to attend tho Harvard-Princeton Harvard-Princeton game. Most of the regular team will eo the battle in Camhrid: tomorrow. |