Talk:Otto Carpell

A fact from Otto Carpell appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 January 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that halfback Otto Carpell and ends Efton James and Curtis Redden were the three Michigan Wolverines football players killed while serving in the military during World War I?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/January.

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Killed?[edit]

'In October 1918, he died of a cause variously reported as heart failure or pneumonia following an outbreak of Spanish influenza...'

I don't see how this can be classified as 'killed' in a war context. Valetude (talk) 18:20, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]