Since the announcement on Saturday of the death of Walter Camp, eminent sportsman and critic, tributes have been made from followers of sport throughout the country to the memory of the "Father of Football". Several members of the University who were connected with Mr. Camp, either through athletics or personal acquaintance, have expressed their appreciation of his character and the knowledge of the loss to the world of sport through his death.

Henry Pennypacker '88, Chairman of the Athletic Committee, was among the first at Harvard to hear of Mr. Camp's death. He has known Mr. Camp for many years as a Yale coach and in his later advisory capacity. "The passing of Walter Camp", he said, "is a great loss to athletics both in schools and in colleges. He retained in middle life the vigor and the enthusiasms of youth to a remarkable degree. His influence was wide and significant and was always exercised in the best directions."

Hard Place To Fill

Head Coach R. T. Fisher '12, of the University football team, was perhaps in a better position to know Mr. Camp than any other man at the University. On hearing the news of his death he made the following statement: "The death of Walter Camp comes as a great shock to all lovers of clean sport. His place in football will be hard to fill for he, above all others, has been the guarding influence which has kept the game up to its present high standards of sportsmanship. His methods and principles are ideals which every football man strives to follow."

Major Fred W. Moore '93, who is a member of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee, was in New York attending the meeting of that committee, at which Mr. Camp died. "Mr. Camp's death", he said, when he returned to Cambridge yesterday, "was a great blow to the members of the Committee, of which he is the secretary. I have known him personally for 30 years and consider him the truest sportsman with whom I have ever been acquainted."