AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 14 (AP) — The former All-Pro football player Dewitt Coulter, who played left tackle for the Giants, died here Oct. 2. He was 83.
His son Jeff Coulter, of Kamloops, British Columbia, announced the death.
Coulter, known as Tex, was an all-American on Army’s 1945 national championship team. He played left tackle for the Giants from 1946 to 1952 and made the All-Pro team in 1948 and 1949.
Coulter also played four seasons with Montreal in the Canadian Football League.
A high school star at Masonic Home in Fort Worth during the 1940s, he was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.
His wife, Ruth, died in 1997. In addition to his son Jeff, he is survived by his son David Coulter of Vancouver, British Columbia; his daughters, Ann McKinlay and Dena Coulter-Brown, both of Austin; and eight grandchildren.
This obituary of Dewitt Coulter is arranged in an inverted pyramid, and follows the same type of structure and order that we discussed in class. It uses short paragraphs, made up of one or two sentences each, to summarize Mr. Coulter's life and family and mention his accomplishments. It's concise, covering all the facts needed without adding excess information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/sports/football/15coulter.html
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3 comments:
I agree with you in that this is a concisely-written obituary, but I feel that the piece focuses too much on the deceased's accomplishments outside of football. I feel that this fixation detracts from a sense of overall understanding of who this person really was.
I agree that this obit is nicely concise and that the inverted pyramid really works for it.
Good use of words and I think that the focus is good. Sometimes a person is overlooked for their other accomplishments when they are famous for another thing. This article shines on positive images
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