[5] For example, after an Army college football coach attributed his team's loss to its center's snapping technique Woodward joked it was "like blaming the Johnstown flood on a leaky toilet in Altoona.

"[4] Another of Woodward's lines related to a group of nine football-playing colleges in the eastern U.S., including Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

After rumors began that these schools would form their own athletic conference, Woodward wrote a column on October 14, 1933, about college football.

"[6] Sportswriter Al Laney later wrote that Woodward's intention in using the "ivy" wording "was joyfully needling some of the group, especially Harvard, for their snootiness".

[2] Although Woodward was credited by some sources with pioneering the full term "Ivy League", that distinction goes to Associated Press editor Alan J. Gould, who first used the name two years later.

Woodward did not require prospective hires to have sports knowledge, recommending they do general journalism work for multiple years before moving on to a more specific writing job.

[5] Early in his tenure as the Herald Tribune's sports editor, Woodward continued to write in-season columns on college football.

Among the military operations he covered during World War II were the invasion of Arnhem in the Netherlands by the 101st Airborne Division and the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theatre.

[19] After Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color line in 1947, Woodward wrote a story in the May 9, 1947, edition of the Herald Tribune that unidentified St. Louis Cardinals players had been rallying support for a strike by National League teams, in which they would attempt to put pressure on Robinson by not playing against him.

Woodward wrote a follow-up story on May 10, contradicting his original claim that Frick had talked to Cardinals players.

The initial story, however, was responsible for increasing the sports media's support for Robinson, and the Frick quote was repeated by writers in future years.

Regarding his workplace relationships, Palmer said that Woodward was frequently "contemptuous of superiors," while showing kindness to lower-level employees.

According to Smith, Helen Rogers Reid ordered his firing because he refused to send a writer to a women's golf tournament.

[22] After leaving the Herald Tribune, Woodward successfully pitched the idea of a monthly sports magazine to Dell Publications, which he edited.

[3][5] The Daily Compass hired Woodward as a columnist in 1949; he stayed at that position into 1950, before leaving to become the editor of the sports section at The Miami News.

[14] Woodward was later asked for his thoughts about the Herald Tribune management figures who had previously fired him, and he gave the four-word answer, "Time wounds all heels.

..."[3] Woodward considered the sports department to be "in frightful shape" at the time he came back, but he quickly moved to replace members of the Herald Tribune's staff, with some hires from the Star-Ledger.

[1] In addition, he was a sports commentator for a Connecticut radio station,[3] and in 1964 wrote the book Paper Tiger, a career retrospective.

[24] Early in his time working in New York City, Woodward resided in Port Washington and took up yachting as a hobby.