Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — DEATH NOT DUE TO FOOTBALL [ARTICLE]

DEATH NOT DUE TO FOOTBALL

Autopsy Reveals Real Cause of Freshman’s Demise at Cornell—- — Died of Heart Disease. That Lauren B. Paine of Duluth, the freshman who died at Cornell Infirmary the other night, did not die from injuries sustained in football practise was made known after an autopsy upon the body by Dr. Charles A. Bentz, the Buffalo pathologist. The findings confirmed the opinion of the football coaches and others connected with tjier game and removes all doubts as ,Jo the playing of the balance of the scheduled year. The findings are contained in the following telegram sent by President J. O. Scburman to Franklin Paine, the boy’s father: “Dr. Bentz of Buffalo made a postmortem examination and has just submitted to me the following signed report: From the it is my opinion that the patient died of unavoidable acute dilatation of the heart, associated with arterial disease and a gastro entero colitis. There was no evidence of anything due to football injury. The gastro entero colitis was the most important cause of the dilatation.’ I should add that Dr. Bentz Is a member of the department of pathology of the University of Buffalo and has made thousands of autopsies."