Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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George Washington Woodruff
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Career
He served as the head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania (1892–1901), the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1903), and Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1905), compiling a career college football record of 142–25–2. Woodruff"s Penn teams of 1894, 1895, and 1897 have been recognized as national champions. Woodruff was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1963.
His football teammates at Yale included Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pudge Heffelfinger, and Pa Corbin.
In his ten years of coaching at Penn, Woodruff compiled a 124–15–2 record while his teams scored 1777 points and only gave up 88. He also coached one year each at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
After coaching, Woodruff practiced law and was active in politics as a Republican.
Membership
Woodruff graduated from Yale University in 1889, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and the University of Pennsylvania where he earned his Bachelor of Laws law degree in 1895.
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Political Party
Republican party