coach Amos Alonzo Stagg published an article in the Saturday Evening Post claiming that Clark had immediately withdrawn from school after the loss because "conditions at the university became intolerable." Clark reportedly resented Stagg's article as he believed it had impugned both him and the University of Michigan. Clark stated that he went to his home in Detroit after the game, but he returned to the university after the Thanksgiving holiday and remained there until the school year ended in 1906. He then studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Later years In November 1908, Clark was appointed manager of Bell Telephone Company in Saginaw, Michigan He had previously been the company's manager at Hillsdale, Michigan. During World War I, Clark served as a captain in the United States Army Air Service. Clark married and had three children, Elizabeth, William Dennison, Jr., and Barbara. Suicide in 1932 In 1932, Clark committed suicide, shooting himself in a hotel room in Salem, Oregon. He had reportedly been despondent for a period, and hotel attendants reported that Clark "had been drinking considerably before he ended his life." He left an unsent airmail letter to his wife with instructions on his life insurance. Clark also wrote that his decision to end his life was "not cowardice, but the very hardest thing I ever did." He added, "Also I have tried everything else desperately and without success." His suicide note also reportedly expressed hope that his "final play" would atone for his error at Marshall Field in 1905. Clark was age 46 at the time of his suicide. In the year prior to his death, Clark had been living in Los Angeles, California. References External links 1885 births 1932 suicides Michigan Wolverines football players Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni United States Army officers Players of American football from Detroit Suicides by firearm in Oregon Deaths by firearm in Oregon American football incidents United States Army personnel of World War I