Lorenzo Ferguson "Fuzzy" Woodruff was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known throughout most of the southeast for his vivid writing. He was also a music and drama critic. He began his newspaper career as a member of the Montgomery Advertiser in 1907. Among the newspapers he served were the Birmingham News, the Birmingham Age-Herald, the New Orleans States, the Mobile Register, the New York Evening World, the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Chicago Examiner, the St. Louis Dispatch, the Atlanta Constitution, the Atlanta Georgian, and the Atlanta Journal.
Sewanee's "Iron Men" of 1899.
Woodruff wrote Dan McGugin "stood out in the South like Gulliver among the native sons of Lilliput."
1899 Sewanee Tigers football team
The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team represented Sewanee: The University of the South in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Sewanee was one of the first college football powers of the South and the 1899 team was one of its best. The 1899 Tigers won 12 games and lost none, outscored opponents 322–10, and won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) title.
1899 Sewanee Tigers football team
Program from the Texas game.
Captain Seibels
Commemorative plaque on the base of the flagpole at McGee Field.