George Robert Woodruff (March 14, 1916 – November 1, 2001) was an American college football player, coach, and sports administrator.

Woodruff stayed in Knoxville after he graduated from the University of Tennessee, working as an assistant coach under Neyland during the 1939, 1940 and 1941 football seasons.

[1] During World War II, he was an officer in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and served as an assistant football coach under Earl Blaik at West Point in 1944 and 1945.

[3] He was discharged from the Army as a major in 1946, and accepted an assistant coaching position under Bobby Dodd at Georgia Tech.

[14] Florida managed to upset the thirteenth-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores in Nashville, Tennessee,[14] propelling the Gators into the top twenty teams of the Associated Press (AP) Poll for the first time.

[17] Woodruff's unconventional replacement, defensive back Doug Dickey, turned out to be exactly what the Gators needed at quarterback—a talented athlete and savvy game manager.

[17] At the conclusion of the 1952 season, senior defensive tackle Charlie LaPradd became the Gators' third first-team All-American.

In the competitive SEC of the 1950s,[21] Woodruff's Gators would not win more than six games again in a season,[4] but they were ranked in the top twenty teams of the final AP Poll in each of 1957, 1958 and 1959.

[18] Woodruff coached the Florida Gators football team for ten seasons from 1950 through 1959, finishing with a 53–42–6 record.

[24] Woodruff was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as an "honorary letter winner" in 1983.