Editing Byron White (section)

=== Law school ===
Upon enrolling at Yale, White continued his previous routine of studying fourteen hours a day, taking breaks only to exercise in the [[Payne Whitney Gymnasium|gymnasium]] where he would frequent the basketball courts, often clashing against Yale halfback [[Clint Frank]] in [[pick-up game]]s. Despite attempts by the [[New York Giants]] and other NFL teams to get him to sign back into football, White publicly repudiated his football career, telling a local newspaper that "my football playing days are over. I'm started on a law career."{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=147–148}}

At the time, Yale was home to a number of [[Legal realism|legal realists]] who rebuked [[Lochner v. New York|''Lochner'']] and [[substantive due process]], and were generally scholars with an expertise in legal fields outside of [[constitutional law]].{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=152–153}} Two of such realists—[[Myres S. McDougal]] and [[Arthur Corbin]]—had a significant influence on White early in law school.{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=154–155}} Future justice [[Potter Stewart]], one year ahead of him at the university, remembered White as "a serious-minded, scholarly, and rather taciturn (except when he found himself engaged in lively colloquy with J. W. Moore in his class on Procedure), and extremely likable young man with steel-rimmed eyeglasses."{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=157}}

White earned the highest grades in his first-year class and was subsequently awarded the Edgar M. Cullen Prize, an award given to the highest-achieving first-year student.{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=157}} During the summer, he returned to Colorado and attended summer school at the [[University of Colorado Law School]], got an [[appendectomy]], and became a [[waiter]] at his old fraternity.{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=156–157}} White would turn down an offer to join the editorship of the ''[[Yale Law Journal]]'',{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=160}} instead taking a leave of absence to promptly return to professional football as a member of the [[Detroit Lions]].{{Sfn|Hutchinson|1998|p=158–159}}<ref name="dswwstp">{{cite news |date=August 20, 1940 |title=Detroit signs "Whizzer" White |page=10 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |agency=INS |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GU8wAAAAIBAJ&pg=2116%2C4008675 |url-status=live |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831053759/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GU8wAAAAIBAJ&pg=2116%2C4008675 |archive-date=August 31, 2021}}</ref><ref name="stlastdt">{{cite news |last=French |first=Bob |date=August 27, 1941 |title=Whizzer White still a student |page=22 |newspaper=Toledo Blade |location=Ohio |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MfEjAAAAIBAJ&pg=2132%2C3776085 |url-status=live |access-date=October 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829221146/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MfEjAAAAIBAJ&pg=2132%2C3776085 |archive-date=August 29, 2021}}</ref>