Sports People

Milt Woodard, a former sportswriter, who later became president of the American Football League, died of congestive heart failure Sunday at San Jose, Calif. He was 84… . Following a nine-month search, American University named Cal State-Sacramento athletic director Lee McElroy Jr. as its new director of athletics, effective May 1… . At Washington, D.C., former NBA and North Carolina State star Charles Whitney was ordered to remain jailed on charges he kidnapped and robbed a White House aide at gunpoint.