David Phipps Parker, Yale Senior, Killed When Auto Overturns Near New Haven

The New York Times
November 20, 1922

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 19.—David Phipps Parker, a senior at Yale University, of 676 Riverside Drive, New York City, was killed on the Milford Turnpike tonight when his automobile struck a rough spot in the road and overturned. Parker was hurled from the machine and was crushed so badly that he died while being rushed to the New Haven Hospital.

Charles Edgar Stokes Jr., also a senior at Yale, of Trenton, N. J., who was in the machine, was hurled to the road, but escaped injury.

The two students were returning from Princeton, where they had seen the Yale-Princeton game, and had stopped off in New York to visit Loomis H. Parker, the father of the dead student. They were about a mile outside of Milford when the accident occurred. Mr. Parker, who is in the insurance business, was notified and immediately started for New Haven.

Parker, who was 22 years old, was prepared at Lawrenceville and entered the Academic College at Yale three years ago. He would have been graduated next June. He was a member of the Yale Quartet, the Yale Glee Club and the Alpha Delta Phi.