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Head Coach Woodruff of the University of Pennsylvania football team has handed in his resignation, to take effect today. It is probable, also, that Murphy, who has trained the Yale teams for two years, will now return to Pennsylvania, as the New Haven climate does not agree with him and the only thing which ever induced him to leave Pennsylvania was a disagreement with Woodruff...
Pennsylvania has little expectation of a victory; but it puts some faith in Coach Woodruff's confidence in the new plays which he has introduced in the place of the famous guards-back formation. Both teams are in splendid condition, and the game should be a fair test of their ability...
...Coach Woodruff has made very few changes in the style of football his eleven played last year. He still uses the guards-back formation when playing on the offensive, with one or two changes. This year either-only one guard comes back at a time or else, if both guards come back together, one halfback goes up in the line. Woodruff has greatly minimized the importance of the halfback, and on the Pennsylvania eleven the ends and halfbacks are constantly interchanged. All the line plunging is done by the fullbacks and the guards, while the ends and the half-backs...
Outfield--F. W. Moore '03, W. B. Tyler '03, L. W. Gibbons '02S, G. B. Ward '02, L. B. Pond '02; W. D. Ogelsby '02 S., G. A. Washington '03, J. C. Kimball '02, K. Curtis '03, J. R. Coffey '03, J. F. Gregory '01, J. E. Woodruff '03, W. C. Lewis '01, A. A. Smith '03, J. L. Hammond '02, R. T. Hinton P. G., W. Bailey '02 S., B. M. Smith '03, T. Sturgis '03, A. Y. Wear '02, T. P. Draper '03, J. L. Boyce...
...examination period, of all men who intend to be candidates for the eleven next fall. Pennsylvania will lose this year by graduation an unusually large number of the best football players in college, and great efforts will be necessary to develop the new material. At the meeting Coach Woodruff and Captain Hare discussed with the candidates plans for preliminary football practice in the spring term...