Fuzzy Woodruff

Lorenzo Ferguson "Fuzzy" Woodruff (May 27, 1884 – December 7, 1929)[1] was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known throughout most of the southeast for his vivid writing.

Recalling the only game in which the 'Iron Men' of the undefeated 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team, who won five road games in six days, were scored upon–by John Heisman's Auburn team in a close 11 to 10 win, Woodruff wrote:[5]Under Heisman's tutelage, Auburn played with a marvelous speed and dash that couldn't be gainsaid and which fairly swept Sewanee off its feet.

They began this early in the game, when their athletes appeared tired and worn whereas Auburn men were full of fight and fire.

He told me afterwards that he had never felt so sorry for a man on a football field as he had for Suter at that moment.A Sewanee legend of just a few years after, Henry D. Phillips, was called by Woodruff "the greatest football player who ever sank cleated shoes into a chalk line south of the Mason-Dixon line."

Three rifle volleys were fired over the grave and taps played on an army bugle as his casket was lowered into Crestlawn Cemetery, Atlanta.

The blood on the uniform was not his own but that of a foreign youth who died in his arms as "Fuzzy" led his men over the top at the Battle of Soissons.