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Kansas University Weekly.
'96 FOOTBALL TEAM.
with the champion team of the Northwest to be played in the Chicago pavillion during the Christmas holidays. We will thus be able to make a showing which will give us standing in the East, especially if we are able to win it, which I think we will be, though of course, there must not be over confidence. And what is the matter" he continued with a knowing look after a thoughtful silence of a few moments, "with our playing a game with Pennsylvania on Pennsy's home grounds next year. I think I can get them to give us a game. It would bring K. U. into prominence in the East. But then next year is a long distance away. We have this season to take care of first. I shall expect hard systematic training. All bad habits must be eschewed until the season is over, as the use of tobacco for instance. No man," he said in a decisive tone, "can hope for a position on the team who does not observe strict training rules. No matter what his ability may otherwise be. There is as good material at K. U. as at Pennsylvania but we must train." Dr. Woodruff does not believe in foot ball for foot ball's sake alone. He believes that there should be a constant effort to raise the tone of athletics and that athletics should be for manly development
and not to show mere brute strength.
"No player" he said, "has time to slug nor do I believe in that kind of work. And remember, whatever you say in the WEEKLY, that I want foot ball players to be good students. Athletics should raise and not lower the standard of scholarship. Any man who plays foot ball can be as good and in fact a better student than the majority of those who do not play if he has the desire to be a student." Dr. Woodruff himself graduated above the center of his class.
With harmonious and united action on the part of the student body and those who are interested in athletics there will be nothing to mar the success of the season. The schedule of league games is as follows: October 30 Kansas vs.Iowa, at Lawrence; October 30 Missouri vs.Nebraska at Lincoln; November 13-Kansas vs.Nebraska at Lincoln; Thanksgiving day—Kansas vs.Missouri at Kansas City.
In addition to the above games Manager Reed expects to arrange games with Ann Arbor, Chicago University, Northwestern University, St. Mary's etc., etc., besides a trip for the team during the Christmas holidays.