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Cerebral Hemorrhage Causes Death of.C. Football Play erA Memorial Service for Brian Truhn, Ithaca College senior who died Monday as the result of an injury sustained in the Ithaca-Bridgeport football game last Saturday, will be held today from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in Walter Ford Hall. Brian Truhn wa cremated at St. Matthew’s Cemetery, following Thursday’s funeral services held at 2 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in his home town, Unadilla, N.Y.“We don’t know exactly what happened,” said Head Coach Jin Butterfield. “We have reviewed the film on the game over and over again but we found nothing indicating an injury to him.”Brian Truhn, a 21 year old physical education major, “left the game in the third quarter,” according to Butterfield, “mumbling something about not feeling well.” He was told to “get off his feet and to sit on the bench a while. It must have been 15 minutes that he was sitting on the bench and talking to doctors before they finally decided to take him to the hospital.”I.C.’s November 5 news release states that Brian apparently collapsed on the bench. The reason was later determined to be a cerebral hemorrhage. He was rushed to the Tompkins County Hospital in Ithaca and then to theArnot-Ogden Hospital in Elmira, but he never regained consciousness.Truhn, a graduate of Unatego Central High School in Unadilla, earned four letters in football and baseball there and three in basketball. At Ithaca, he played basketball as a freshman and sophomore. In baseball, he was a starter as a freshman, as well as in his two years of varsity competition. Last year at third base, he hit .333. Brian decided to go out for football this year since he felt that it would help his coaching career in high school. His aim was to teach math and to coach one or all of the sports he hadexcelled in.Said Butterfield, “He was an outstanding athlete and proved it by becoming probably our top running back in so short a period of time. More than being an athlete, he was a special young man — a quality person who put his heart into everything he did. He was also a leader. It was apparent that when he was not in the line-up, we were hurting. He accepted his responsibility. When he went in as a starter in our third game, we began to be a better club almost immediately.“Brian was the type of boy whom every father dreams of as a son.”
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Ithaca Ithacan
Ithaca, New York, US
Fri, Nov 08, 1968
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