Then again Charlie
George Lyon died age 34 of Tuberculosis
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL6621031.pdf
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar...16/bbm165x.pdf
E.D. Fulford, winner of the 1898 GAH, died at age 41 of pneumonia.
Fred Gilbert was sidelined with Inflammatory Rheumatism (Adult Poststreptococcal Arthritis) in 1906 (age 40) and again in 1910
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...iW-cpc/preview
While touring with the 1904 U.M.C. Southern squad, Rolla Heikes acquired Typhoid Fever and his son Horace, Malaria.
Rolla had Malaria in 1901 and 1911, and Erysipelas in 1907.
Rolla however lived to 78!
Chan Powers almost didn’t make it home from the 1901 Anglo-American match after getting Typhoid Fever
https://docs.google.com/document/pub...jEdR4j_E9l4HLw
William Heer had malaria in the Spring of 1904
http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL4308022.pdf
October 29, 1901, a show train carrying Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show was hit head-on by a southbound train near Lexington, N.C. Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler were on the train, and Annie was temporarily paralyzed, eventually requiring 5 surgeries.