The same ideals that led Wilson to create the preceptorial system inspired his new demands that the eating clubs may way for quads and that graduate students and faculty live among the undergraduates and make them real men.
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.