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Show -FAMOUS GOAGH IS ' TUffl DEATH WALTER CAVP, FOU'.DER OF PRESENT GAME CF FOOTBALL FOOT-BALL IS FOUNO DEAD Was In New York To Af.erd Se-joior of Rules Committee: Was Friend To All Kinds cf Manly Sports N.-w York. Walter Can:'', found.-:-..f modern ii:l i-nnllegia ; e fooibail. died while sleeping in b.s room ii. Hi,. Jii,i:-1 Belmont. lie was in hi-- hi-- i:.'y-.- i.vtii .-ar. ('miiis '-' New York on .V.irrh i i: a in an- lid t!,- rohtei'-:.'-.. of the iiii.-ri idlegi.i'e fo-.-li.ill r-il s co:::mi; lee. of which be was secretary, th-former th-former Yale player, coach and ,-Htl-suci-iinibed to angina p'-ctoris. whi'-ii overtook him in his bed after he had .returned from Ihe commil i s lirsi B.-.-slon at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The body was found by William W. Roper, Princeton's bead gridiron coach, and W. S. Laiigrord of Trinity v. !ii) were sent to Ihe Belmont by t'.o-1 t'.o-1 committee after Mr. Camp had failed lo appear for the morning's nn-c-cing. (ietiiug no response to repeated knockings at the room door, tney .summoned hotel otiicials, who forced till entrance. Mr. Camp, in his pajamas, pa-jamas, was in bed. apparently asleep. An examination, however, showed I hat 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 ouce a Yale halfback, and Mr. Roller 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 fKuO 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. Al'ler a brief delay, the meeting opened open-ed without him. An hour later 10. K. Hall, Dartmouth, chairman of the- committee, com-mittee, decided to investigate and, all 'v a telephone call to the Belmont bro.i'-.lit the report. "Mr. Camp's room docs niil answer," Mr. Roller and Mr. (.ne-.'.ford were sent, in search cT the secretary. Getting no response from Mr. Camp's room. Roper and Langford hurried to ihe ofi'ice of J. R. Clar'.t. assistant manager of the hotel. Together To-gether the three men forced the door and found the body on the bed. Dr. I. R. A. Lang, house physician, said Mr. Cam) hed died in his sleep of a heart a I tack. This was confirmed later by Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, assistant as-sistant medical examiner. Mrs. Camp was notified by telephone tele-phone at New Haven, but it was decided de-cided that she would not attempt the journey to New York then. Her son, a New Y"ork business man. together with Roper and other members of the rules committee, took charge of the arrangements. When the news reached me 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. |
