Wylie G . Woodruff Wylie Glidden Woodruff ( March 4 , 1866 – June 21 , 1930 ) was an American football player and coach . He played guard at the University of Pennsylvania under his older brother , George Washington Woodruff . He was selected to the 1896 College Football All - America Team during his senior year . After graduation , he served as the head coach at the University of Kansas from 1897 to 1898 , compiling a record of 15 – 4 . Early life and playing career . Woodruff was born on March 4 , 1866 in Tecumseh , Nebraska to Lewis Harlow Woodruff ( June 9 , 1836 – December 27 , 1871 ) and Melissa Cormella Woodruff ( née Glidden ; December 16 , 1841 – December 17 , 1866 ) . His family moved to Tecumseh , Nebraska from Friendsville , Pennsylvania in 1865 where his father opened up a trading post . Sometime before 1870 his family moved back east briefly to Binghamton , New York and then to his mother ' s hometown of Friendsville , Pennsylvania where Woodruff spent most of his childhood . After attending and graduating from public schools in Friendsville , Pennsylvania he moved on to the Mansfield State Normal School in Mansfield , Pennsylvania . Later he attended Wyoming Seminary in Kingston , Pennsylvania , from which he graduated in 1883 . Woodruff then began working in the oil business with his brother George Washington Woodruff first in Cincinnati , Ohio in 1883 , then Chicago , Illinois in 1886 , and eventually ending up in Kansas City , Missouri in 1887 . While in Kansas City , Woodruff played football for the Kansas City YMCA . He married Cora B . Woodruff , originally of Beloit , Kansas , in Kansas City . As a result of the 1890 – 91 recession he lost his business in the oil industry . Later he was hired as a traveling pickle salesman , a job he held until the fall of 1893 . In the fall of 1893 he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study medicine . Kansas City YMCA . Woodruff played football for the Kansas City YMCA from 1888 to 1891 . During his time playing for the Kansas City YMCA , he played against the school he later became the head football coach of , the University of Kansas , on November 27 , 1890 in Kansas City , Missouri . It was only the second game ever played by the Kansas football team . Woodruff and his YMCA team prevailed by a score of 18 – 10 . Penn . Woodruff played football for the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 through 1896 while studying to receive his medical degree . He helped Penn to two consecutive undefeated seasons and national championships in 1894 and 1895 . His coach at Penn was his older brother , George Washington Woodruff , who remained the head football coach until 1901 . During his last year at Penn he was teammates with former KU player and future College Football Hall of Fame r and fellow future head football coach at KU , John H . Outland in 1896 . Woodruff was also on the Penn crew team coached by his brother , George , lettering in both 1894 and 1895 , and the Penn track and field team lettering in 1896 and 1897 in addition to being a wrestler on the Penn gymnasium team . While on the track and field team he broke the world record in the hammer throw in 1897 . He also set the American college record in the shot put while at Penn . Woodruff graduated from Pennsylvania with a degree in medicine in 1897 . Coaching career . Kansas . After graduating from Penn , Woodruff received an appointment to the United States Army as a surgeon , but within two months he had received a leave of absence to become the new head football coach for the University of Kansas Jayhawks located in Lawrence , Kansas . When he first arrived at Kansas , he moved in with the players in their training quarters and enforced strict codes of conduct . He was the fourth head football coach for the University of Kansas and he held that position for two seasons , from 1897 until 1898 . His coaching record at Kansas was 15 – 3 . During the summers while in Lawrence , Kansas he was assigned to Fort Riley , Kansas as the post ' s assistant acting surgeon and he was active in trying to raise troops amongst KU students for the Spanish – American War in 1898 . Upon his departure as head football coach at Kansas , Woodruff set up practice as a physician in Lawrence , opening an office at 709 Massachusetts Street in January 1898 . He specialized in skin diseases and the removal of moles and other skin blemishes . He remained in Lawrence , practicing medicine until May 1901 . Controversy . In the Fall of 1900 Woodruff filed for divorce from his wife , Cora , but then retracted the filing soon afterwards . Despite the retraction of his divorce filing , he moved out of his home at this time . It was alleged he had been carrying on an affair with another man ' s wife who had been a patient of his when Woodruff abruptly left Lawrence , Kansas to visit his mistress , Mrs . Edith Moyer , in Kansas City , Missouri . He soon returned to Lawrence , Kansas and announced he had consumption , known today as Tuberculosis , which required him to move west to a drier climate . He quickly closed his medical practice in Lawrence , Kansas and left town for good in May 1901 . He then met up with his mistress and her daughter in Chicago , Illinois where they departed for his new home in Portland , Oregon . Mr . Ray Moyer , the husband of his mistress realizing that both his wife and daughter had fled town filed a police report claiming his daughter had been kidnapped by Woodruff and his wife . The Lawrence Chief of Police , chief Hayes , then made out a warrant for Woodruff ' s arrest which was sent by telegraph to the Chief of Police in Portland , Oregon . Woodruff and his mistress were arrested in Portland , Oregon on May 31 , 1901 making national news . The charges were dropped six days later upon the return of Mrs . Moyer ' s daughter to her soon to be ex - husband , Mr . Ray Moyer , back in Lawrence , Kansas under his permanent custody . Woodruff and Mrs . Edith Moyer later married . Later life and death . Woodruff and his new wife made Portland , Oregon their home for the rest of their lives . Upon arrival in Portland , he again set up his medical practice , this time specializing in gynecology , obstetrics , and abdominal surgery . With his zest for athletic competition still not squelched , he competed on occasion in local wrestling matches , including a well known match against local professional wrestler , Joe Action . Woodruff famously won the match . Later he traveled the country as a professional wrestler , under the name of " Dr . Roller " , including a match in Kansas City , Kansas in April 1909 . Woodruff also played football for seven years for the Multnomah Athletic Club . He founded and operated the Oregon Sanitorium , a private in - patient treatment center . He was active in several clubs and associations in Portland , including the Loyal Order of Moose and the Knights of Pythias , both of which he was a lifetime member , and was an active member of the Alderwood Country Club . Woodruff died in Portland on June 21 , 1930 . He was survived by his wife , Edith I . Woodruff ( née Johnson ) , daughter Mrs . Cormella Glidden Yenney ( 1904 – April 30 , 1950 ) , son George Walter Woodruff ( November 8 , 1906 – October 6 , 1987 ) , and grandson George Wylie Yenney ( May 23 , 1926 – November 16 , 1994 ) .