At approximately 3 p.m., following the Amherst-Williams Homecoming game, Head Athletic Trainer Stan Zieja found Crane in the bathroom of DeBevoise Field House having trouble breathing, according to the College's Assistant Police Chief Ed Zaniewski. He said that eventually the man went into full cardiac arrest.
Campus Police and Town Police arrived on the scene first because they were already at the game, according to Michael Zlogar, the assistant fire chief of the Amherst Fire Department.
Zlogar said that it was important that police cruisers had equipment to properly handle a patient in cardiac arrest.
"They were on the scene," Zlogar said. "They arrived a short time before the ambulance did. They hooked up the defibrillator and it worked the way it's supposed to work."
Physicians on the scene for the game also responded immediately. "They were there to help both the first responding officers and offer assistance to our crews," said Zlogar.