"Robert D. Kilmarx heard the noises and came out of his room across the hall. He told the men to get out, and they did, not knowing that Cirrotta might have been severely injured. Kilmarx spoke to Cirrotta, who was washing his face, and returned to his room to study.

"About midnight Cirrotta's roommate, Richard A. Wolff, came back from the library and found Cirrotta on his bed complaining that he couldn't sleep. He asked Wolff for a couple of sleeping pills.

"Wolff, however," Tesreau said, "decided to call Theodore Gaudreau, captain of the campus police. Gaudreau ordered Cirrotta removed to the infirmary from which he was later taken to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, where he died at about 4 a.m. Saturday during an emergency operation on his head.

Tesreau's account of the struggle tallied with medical referee Dr. William C. Putnam's report that death was caused by a hemorrhage on the outside of Cirrotta's brain and that there were only two outward marks of injury: a small cut in the left corner of his mouth and a bruise on his left temple.

Rumors about the origins of the fatal scuffle were still circulating here late tonight. If, as some claim, the incident started as a student prank, the question remains: why did the men involved single out Cirrotta?

In addition to claims that Cirrotta's personality was not pleasing and that he were a sports letter he didn't deserve acquaintances offered as a reason for his unpopularity his "leftist leanings," including support of Henry A. Wallace for President and singing of "labor songs."

Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning in Linden, N. J., Cirrotta's hometown. His roommates, Wolff and Morris W. Weintraub, will represent the student body and his fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa. Dean Neidlinger will represent the college