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Woodrow Wilson ’79 ’s Role in Football

Wilson had more to do with football than just about any other American President, before or since. Unlike Jerry Ford, he never played on an organized team, but he coached on, and participated in two of the most significant sets of rules changes to shape the game.
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Woodrow Wilson ’79 Amid the “Demure Damsels”

Lucy Maynard Salmon, one of Wilson’s graduate students and later one of Vassar’s most distinguished professors, wrote scathingly of his narrow-minded attitude toward women. Before Salmon arrived at Bryn Mawr, Cornell President Charles Kendall Adams had warned her not to expect much of Wilson: “Indeed I shall be very much surprised if you find he knows nearly so much history as you do; but if you remember that it is more blessed to give than to receive you will have no reason to be unhappy.”

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