Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-16
GRADUATES OF THE FOOTBALL FIELD
Scores of Heroes of Grdron Their Mark the
World Utilizing Qualities That Helped Them Score Touch
downs-President Wilson Coached Wesleyan Eleven
By EDWARD R. BUSHNELL

CUCCESSFUL football stars possess many
~ of the qualities required for success in
business and professional life, and it is not
surprising that numbers of the famous grid
iron heroes have made their mark in law,
medicine, the ministry, education. business
and politics. who's Who contains the
names of scores of men who continued to
make good after showing their fellows what
they could do in the way of scoring touch
downs The showing they have made fur
nishes one more human document" in the
case for football as developer of character,
courage and "get-there."
Yale men have contributed most to the de-
velopment of football strategcs. The keen
analytical mind of Walter Camp kept him in
the forefront of football history through
period Of 35 years. He was a great player
himself back in 1881, when he was Yales
captain and one of the finest open-field rum
ners of the time. But he has acquired just
as great success in other fields.
He has written extensively on subjects not
connected with college sports, and for a good
many years has been president and man
ager of the New Haven Clock Company He
is also a member of the Yale University
Council. II was his far-sighted business
sense that enabled Yale to build that inn
mense bowl" where 10000 people can look
down on football game, the most remark
able athletic field in the world.
Inventor of Guards Back"
Another Yale football genius, more versa
tile than Camp, was George Woodruff, who
played guard for four years, from 1885 to
1889. But it wasn't at Yale that Woodruff
electrified the football world. 1t was at
Pennsylvania, where he was installed
coach shortly after his graduation. Wood
ruff had his ideas at Yale, though as an
undergraduate he had no chance to demon
strate them. But when he took charge at
Pennsylvania he proceeded to startle the
college world with his irresistible guards
back" on which all the later mass forma-
tions were built. He put Pennsylvania on
the football map and gave the Quakers all
their championship teams up to 1901 when
he was deposed. He was the originator of
the present system of sending in the ends TO
break up interference. He also invented the
quarterback kick.
Although Woodruff gave the best part of
his life to football his interests and activities
were various. While coaching the Pennsyl-
vania team he was a student In the law
school. Since 1908. when he abandoned foot
ball, his legal talents have been sought out
by the United States Government. He has
served in the Forestry Department and as
United States District Judge of Hawaii.
To the Middle West the Yale football
school has given many notable men There
is A. A. Stagg, who for five years was a.
thorn in the flesh TO Harvard men in both
football and baseball. In those days there
was no four-year limit to a mans participa-
tion in college athletics, and Harvard men
feared stagg never would graduate. Not only
was he one OF Yale's greatest ends, but he
nVuIa 40 hox
greatest college pitcher who ever lived. He
was prominent in athletics, but was also a
leader in undergraduate religious work. He
has grown up out In the West as the ath-
letic director OF the University OF Chicago
and his genius in coaching football baseball
and track teams has enabled these depart
ments to keep pace with the money the
Rockefellers have spent to equip the plant
Another Yalo genius was H. L. williams
OF the 90 team. Williams came from Yale
to the Penn Charter School. OF this city, as
athletic director. but from here he was
called TO the University OF Minnesota, where
he invented the Minnesota Shift IN 1910
Then there was Vance Mccormick. captain
and quarterback OF the Yale eleven in 1892
Mccormick was known as one OF the brain
lest men in Yale football. and that year his
team won the intercollegiate Championship.
for II beat Harvard so and Princeton 100
Mccormick IL now the owner and editor of
the Harrisburg Patriot. and last year was
the Democratic candidate for the governor
ship Of this State.
Joined Athletics and Religion
Lee McClung, who was captain OF the Yale
team In 1891. had so much ability as a finan-
cier that he was made Treasurer OF the
United States in 1909 a position he later re-
signed 10 be treasurer OF his Alma Mater.
He died last year after attack OF pneu-
monia.
Princeton. too, can point 20 group OF
famous Americans who were stars on the
gridiron during their undergraduate days