Wylie G. Woodruff
Woodruff in 1898 as the head football coach at Kansas
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 4, 1866 Tecumseh, Nebraska |
| Died | June 21, 1930 (aged 64) Portland, Oregon |
| Playing career | |
| 1888–1891 | Kansas City YMCA |
| 1893–1896 | Penn |
| Position(s) | Guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1897–1898 | Kansas |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 15–3 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| All-American, 1896 | |
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.
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 was a dry goods dealer. His mother died at Tecumseh in 1866. Sometime after February 1868 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. The 1880 Census has him living with Dr. Henry P. and Sarah E. née Glidden Hasting (his mother's sister) at Culver Township, Ottawa County, Kansas. 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. In 1889 he married Cora E. Bragdon, 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.
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