Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1918 — FIRST FOOTBALL STAR FALLS [ARTICLE]

FIRST FOOTBALL STAR FALLS

Malcolm Gifford of Williams, Victim of Unfortunate Circumstances, Is War Victim. Malcolm Gifford of Williams college, is the first American football star to fall in the great game “over there.” Williams joined a Canadian regiment last spring and said that he would never return to America alive. He flung himself into the war game with tue same spirit that he displayed in football. He did this largely to help him forget the unfortunate train of circumstances that had caused him to be accused and tried for the murder of a taxicab driver in Albany, N. Y. This incident saddened the life of the football star and he cared little what happened to him in Europe.