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Show FAMOUS COACH 15 TAKENBY DEATH WALTER CAMP, FOUNDER OF PRESENT GAME OF FOOTBALL FOOT-BALL IS FOUND DEAD Was In New York To Attend Session of Rules Committee; Was Friend To All Kinds of Manly Sports New York. Walter Camp, founder of modern Intercollegiate football, died while sleeping in his room In the Hotel Belmont. He was in his sixty-sixth year. Coming to New York on March sixtn to attend the conference of the intercollegiate football rules committee, commit-tee, of which he was secretary, tha former Yale player, coach and critio succumbed to angina pectoris, whicn overtook him in his bed after he had returned from the committee's first session at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The body was found by William W. Roper, Princeton's head gridiron coach, and W. S. Langford of Trinity, who were sent to the Belmont by the committee after Mr. Camp had failed to appear for the morning's meeting. Getting no response to repeated knockings at the room door, they summoned hotel officials, who forced an entrance. Mr. Camp, in his pa-Jamas, pa-Jamas, was In bed, apparently asleep. An examination, however, showed that he was dead. The body was taken to Mr. Camp's home at New Haven, Conn., the seat of the university he served so illustriously illus-triously for many years. Walter Camp, Jr., of New York, the great coach's only son, and himself once a Yale halfback, and Mr. Roper accompanied accom-panied the body. Members of the rules committee said that Mr. Camp was in the best of health and spirits at Friday's session. At midnight the meeting adjourned ad-journed until 9:30 o'clock Saturday and Mr. Camp went to his hotel. . When the time arrived for session, which was to approve changes in the Intercollegiate playing regulations, the secretary was not in his place. After a brief delay, the meeting opened open-ed without him. An hour later E. K. Hall, Dartmouth, chairman of the committee, com-mittee, decided to investigate aud, after a telephone call to the Belmont brought the report, "Mr. Camp's room does not answer," Mr. Roper and Mr. Langford were sent in search of the secretary. Getting no response from Mr. Camp's room, Roper and Langford hurried to the office of J. R. Clark, assistant manager of the hotel. Together To-gether the three men forced the door and found the body on the bed. Dr. J. R. A. Lang, house physician, said Mr. Camp had died in his sleep of a heart attack. This was confirmed later by Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, assistant-medical examiner. Mrs. Camp was notified by telephone tele-phone at New Haven, but it was decided de-cided that she would not attempt th6 journey to New York then. Her son, a New York business man, together with Roper and other members of the rules committee, took charge of the arrangements. When the news reached tne coaches coach-es in session at the Pennsylvania, the meeting was immediately adjourned and members of the committee offered of-fered their services to assist in the funeral preparations. |
