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DR. WYLIE WOODRUFF.
Dr. Wylie Woodruff who will coach the foot ball team of Kansas University this fall was born in the West thirty-one years ago. He was reared in the east until fourteen years of age when he came to Kansas, spending two
years in the Saline valley where the vigor of the Kansas climate changed him from a boy five feet tall weighing one hundred pounds to a man five feet ten inches in height with a weight of one hundred and sixty-five pounds.
Dr. Woodruff was in Kansas when the state became prohibition and has always been a strong supporter of that principle.In 1882 he entered and spent two years at Mansfield State Normal at Mansfield, Pa., and Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa., preparatory to entering college. While a boy his energy was made manifest in all forms of athletic sports. Compelled to give up his ambition of entering college at once, he came west once more entering active business life to make the wherewith to
first met K. U. helping defeat them in his first game of foot ball by the score of 18 to 10, he playing with the Y. M. C. A. team. Traveling through the state from Kansas City and St. Joe he became a thorough Kansan and decided that this western state should be his home.
go to college. He never gave up his interest in athletics but was confined to gymnasium work such as boxing, wrestling and fencing in all of which he excelled at Cincinnati, Chicago and Kansas City. In the last named place he
DR. WYLIE WOODRUFF.
In September '93 he entered the University of Pennsylvania where he was first thrown into college athletics. As a Freshman he made left guard on 'varsity football team displacing Oliver who held the place but the team was badly captained and did little to recommend itself that year. In January '94 he began rowing and pulled No. 5 for two years and was considered the best oarsman in college when he stopped in '96. Success in foot ball is history and needs no extended comment here. For three years the team knew no defeat except Lafayette last year which amounted to nothing, in fact, except to show how careless a team may become.
In May '96, he began field work and though never having
thrown hammer before came up to one hundred and thirty-three feet and put the shot forty-two feet six inches. Owing to an accident to his wrist he lost the championship that year but won it this year in the meet be-