George Washington Woodruff (February 22, 1864 – March 23, 1934) was an American college football player, rower, coach, teacher, lawyer and politician.

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.

His political posts included Finance Clerk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Attorney General, federal judge for the territory of Hawaii, chief law officer of the United States Forest Service under friend and fellow Yale alumni Gifford Pinchot, and acting Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Ralph Kinney completed Carlisle's season, going 3–2 over the five games played after Woodruff's departure.