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...Stanley Woodward, football was never just a game. It was one of life's major pastimes, worthy of his undivided attention, whether he was playing it or writing about it. As a sportswriter and editor for 40 years, Woodward, who died of bronchitis last week at 71, made athletics as important to his readers as they were to him. Quoting liberally from Latin and French, Milton and Shakespeare, he ranged over the entire world of sports, from its gambling to its psychology to its Jim Crowism. When a lady reporter once told him that it was her ambition...
Sardonic Humor. At first, Woodward wanted to be a participant sportsman, not a spectator. But a series of operations for cataracts cost him his peripheral vision and closed athletics to him as a career. After graduating from Amherst, he went to work for local newspapers; in 1930 he moved to the New York Herald Tribune as sportswriter...
Then as now, most sportswriters took themselves so seriously that they wrote about a baserunner stealing home as earnestly as if they were covering the theft of the Mono. Lisa. Woodward kept his subject in perspective, cutting everyone down to size with his sardonic sense of humor. When Dan Ferris retired as executive secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union in 1962, Woodward expressed unabashed pleasure. "As a tour conductor of American athletes abroad, Ferris ranked with Mike Quill's newest subway guard...
Midst Laurels stood: Harvard University's Dr. Robert Burns Woodward, 48, named to receive the 1965 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his "contributions to the art of organic synthesis," notably his synthesis of chlorophyll in 1961; Dr. Julian Schwinger, 47, also of Harvard, Dr. Richard P. Feynman, 47, of the California Institute of Technology, and Dr. Shin-ichirō Tomonaga, 59, of the Tokyo University of Education, who will share the Nobel Prize for physics for their work, independent of one another, in defining the basic theories of quantum electrodynamics 20 years...
...Woodward Avenue Presbyterian Church Detroit, Mich...