DEATH DURING GAME
Heart Failure: Not Injuries
By Telegraph—Press Association,
Christchurch, May 20.
'lt now appears that the cause of the death of Thomas Charles Bisphan, aged 19, while playing football at Sheflield on Saturday was heart failure, and not injuries received during the game. The coroner returned a verdict to this effect to-day, after medical evidence had been tendered. He added a rider that the deceased was playing football at the time his death occurred, but that no fault could be found with the way in which the game was played or confeoUed,
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 200, 21 May 1931, Page 6
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