Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1915 — Thomas F. Shevlin, Former Yale Football Coach, Dies. [ARTICLE]

Thomas F. Shevlin, Former Yale Football Coach, Dies.

Thomas F. Shevlin, millionaire lumberman and Yale football coach, died at his home in Minneapolis Wednesday morning of pneumonia. Mr. Shevlin, who was 32 years old, contracted a cold while training the Yale football squad last fall. Shevlin was a great athlete. He had played football and baseball and shown well on the track. He played end for four years at Yale and was captain of the team his last year at school. For all four years Shevlin was picked as end on the all-Ameri-can team. In the four years that he played, Yale defeated Harvard four times and Princeton three times. The funeral will be held Friday.