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Show VICTIM OF FOOTBALL. West Point Player Dead and Gams Will be Abandoned for Season. West Point, N. Y. Cadet Eugene A. Dyrno, who was injured in Saturday's Satur-day's football game between the Army team and Harvard, died early Sunday. Ills father, former Chief ol Poltco Byrne of Buffalo, was with him when ho died. Brave as was tho young soldler'j light against death, It was hopeless from tho start. Buried beneath a mass of struggling players in tho Harvard-Army Harvard-Army game, his neck was twisted and broken by the weight of the crushing pile above him. A statement has been made by Colonel Col-onel Hugh L. Scott, superintendent ol tho United States military academy that no more football will bo played by tho West Point eleven this year. |