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tween Harvard, Yale and Pennsylvania. He had sole training of McCracken another Kansas man who won first against Harvard in the shot put at forty feet and six inches, and second in hammer throw at 127 feet. Under Dr. Woodruff's training he was able to throw the hammer 134 feet four inches, and put shot forty feet eight inches.
But while Dr. Woodruff has made this enviable record in athletics he has not done it at the expense of his studies. This spring he graduated from the Medical department of Pennsylvania University above the middle of his class. During his course he has never been known to fail in any work he undertook. He has now come back to the state with which he was for a long time identified in order to practice the profession for which he has fitted himself. He will open an office in Lawrence this fall expecting to reside there permanently, and owing to his interest in scientific work will undoubtedly be as great a success as a physician as he has been as an athletic.
DR. WOODRUFF ON FOOT BALL.
Foot ball is the one most manly sport of modern times; a sport that brings out all that is most noble and intellectual in a young man's nature. It takes a keen intellect to grasp all the many changes in resourceful maneuvers of a company of bright, determined men, headed by an older and more experienced coach, whose every effort is bent upon outwitting them at any moment by some sudden change of tactics after a prolonged and crushing onslaught at
some one place. I would not have you think I would expect a team to win by trick play, but when a game is close and by an opportune deception you are able to turn the tide and win, it is well to possess the ability.
This sport also brings out all the noble nature of a man. It causes him to give up all those habitual luxuries (which makes the young American so strange a subject to most foreigners) of which I will speak more in full later. It causes him to endure fatigue and sometimes pain with a smile. It makes him control all that resentful fire which makes a man strike another when he has first been struck; but he must put from him the thought, for while he is giving his full attention to an adversary to fight him in a pugilistic manner some one may be making a touch-down where it is his duty to be, and a man who will be drawn from his duty at any time by any act of an opponent is an inferior man and outplayed by that opponent if twice his size, and if he has given him a black eye; and in the meantime the failure to perform duty has beaten his side. Which is the more profitable, black eye or victory?
He is compelled to think quickly and act promptly, if not he will always be just a little too late. If at any time his judgment is wrong that gives experience, and by long and careful practice such a fault will be overcome; but it is far better to be over active occasionally than to be so careful as to become a drone on the field. To attain the maximum of usefulness a man must educate himself to have perfect confidence in his judgment and the ability to act
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE,
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