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willingly forego these pleasures for a few months to become a champion. Drinking unfits any man to be as good an athlete as he could be; tobacco poisons him about as badly, and loss of sleep is very weakening. I know how hard it is for men to forego these things; not from personal experience, but from four years of almost constant training with other men who had to do it. The effect is electrical; the eyes which have been dull soon light, and a heart which but shortly before could not endure violent action knows not fatigue. The fatty become hard, the thin become heavier and larger of limb and chest, and at last when the season is over, as I have heard so many say: "I would not take a good deal for the good I have received by this training. I am going to keep it up." They seldom do it but are ready at any time to condemn themselves for their delinquency.
Then comes the pleasure of it all; the meeting on the gridiron, the hope and dispair of obtaining a place on the team-for no man in my way of thinking has a "dead sure thing" on his place-for any man who shows himself more useful may displace him, and the only way is always to be the best man. We play our practice each day, and the action so free from fatigue, the ever present desire for victory, all urge each man to his best until at last when our opening game comes the men who have shown best so far for each place make up the team They should go into the game with such a dash and force as to paralize the opponent if possible, and never for one moment let up, and if they train properly they will be able to do it. I have been on such a team, whose first and every game was one wild stampeed, when in a schedule of twelve games we made a total of 480 points and most of the games were only twenty-minute halves and had only twenty-two points against us, an average of 40 points each game. And our men were hnman! Why not make up your minds, you sons of Old Kansas, to come to me this fall with the one thought "I will do all in my power to make this season one of glorious memory." I will be with you on and off the field and will always be ready to help you.
This article is for all the readers of the KANSAS UNIVERSITY WEEKLY, but directly to all students who will be eligible to play football next fall. To those parents who will be at home in fear and trembling, I want to say football and other college sports are not to make cripples and to slay the young men of the land, but if you have carefully followed me, to make them stronger, more manly, nobler, more self-reliant, braver and men of brains, who may know how to properly honor their fathers and mothers and respect and defend the state at whose institution they are imbibing that knowledge for which mankind has so long been in search.
DR. WYLIE G. WOODRUFF.
KANSAS MEN IN THE EAST.
McCrackin and Outland, both of whom Dr. Woodruff influenced in going to Pennsylvania last year, will make the Pennsylvania team.
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