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WE'LL PLAY LIKE PENNSYLVANIA.
With Doctor Woodruff for Coach and Good Kansas Raw Material, Football Prospects Could Not Be Brighter—The Outlook-Biography of Woodruff-Dr. Woodruff on Football.
THE OUTLOOK.
There has never been a brighter prospect for a foot ball team at Kansas University than there is for this fall. Kansas University has always had good material for a team and this year it will have better material than ever. In addition to having good material there will be the advantage of having Dr. Woodruff as coach fresh from Pennsylvania where he has played guard so brilliantly for the past four years, and from whom much may be expected in the organization and training of the team. He will be far more than merely coach for one season as he is a thorough Kansan and will have the success of the University at heart, not only for this season but also for the future. Then too Prof. Cowan as director of physical culture will be in a position to get out material which might otherwise be lost sight of besides giving his usual assistance to the team. The team will be a strictly non-professional one and will be composed of men who earn the right to their positions by ability and training.
Nearly all of the old players will be back and many new ones who are anxious to get into the game will be here. Voights, Sanderson, Hamill, Moss, Fitzpatrick, Kennedy, Hess and Williams are certain to be at the University and there is a possibility that Walker, Hester, and Nate Foster may conclude not to quit McCook field for another season. Walker who left the University last winter in order to accept a position in Kansas City is ambitious to return to complete his work with the class of 98 and after catching the enthusiasm during his visit last commencement remarked that he should certainly cherish his auburn locks during the summer in order to be in shape should he decide to come back. Hester has always been
desirous of going east to study and in the spring announced in his determined way that that should be his last year at K. U. However, even he is beginning to weaken and his friends may not be surprised to see him in his old position. Many men like Buzzi who are athletically built but have never donned foot ball clothes will be out and ought to make a good showing. Speaks and Jewett with one year's training ought to do well this year. And then there is no better foot ball material than that which is graduated from a Kansas hay field.
In addition to the old players there are many new men who have assured Dr. Woodruff that they would like to play this fall. Among these there is some excellent material. Both Abbott and Davidson who played with Mattison's Abilene team last fall want Pennsylvania coaching and as they are ambitious to secure a University education they will be at K.U. this year. Both will be remembered by all foot ball players as fine men mentally as well as physically and are fully equal to any players who have ever played on McCook field. Day who has also played some foot ball will try for the team and probably Games will come back. Manager Reed and Captain Kennedy are both working hard to make the team a success and both are feeling jubilant.
Dr. Woodruff is especially well pleased with the outlook.. In conversation with a WEEKLY reporter he said:
"I think with hard work and systematic training we will be able to show our superiority over any team in the world not by a slight margin but by a good big score which will gain us recognition both North and West. When we have done this we will try to arrange a game