Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

To many familiar with IUP sports through much of their history, the name Marshall Woodring and the word legend are one and the same.

Football coach George P. Miller, an inaugural-year Hall of Fame inductee and himself a legend, once described "Mish'' Woodring as “head and shoulders above anyone else."

To earn these accolades, Woodring excelled as a triplethreat, single-wing quarterback who led his four Indiana State Teachers College teams (in 1932-35) to four winning campaigns. 1934's team, as the Indians outscored their opponents 128-17, remains the only one in history to finish undefeated and untied.

In 1949 the campus newspaper The Penn named Woodring captain of its all-time "Dream Team.'' His passing, running, field generalship, punting and defensive play were all described as brilliant. 

Woodring, whose "competitive spirit was unequalled”, again according to Miller, was the mainstay not only of the grid team but in basketball and baseball too.  On the hardwood, he was the team's top scorer all four years; this has never been done by anyone else. Woodring's career total of 621 points was a big factor in IUP winning the state championship in 1933-34 and division titles the following two years.  In baseball, he batted .558 as a freshman.

After graduating in 1936, he first became a teacher and football and basketball coach at Sandy Township and Reynoldsville High Schools, until serving as a U. S. Army in the South Pacific Theatre in World War II (1942-46).

Later, he went to work for 27 years representing Blue Cross at a district level that comprised some 360 affiliates, until retiring in 1977.  Woodring was also regarded for nearly 20 years as one of the region's top football and basketball officials. 

President of the Reynoldsville Recreation Commission for 14 years and an American Legion and Teener League baseball coach, Woodring was inducted into the DuBois Area Hall of Fame in 1966. He was a Reynoldsville school board member as well.

Married to the former Norma Schettino from 1943 until she passed away in 1965, Woodring was the father of Jim, who now resides in Roanoke, Virginia, where since 1969 he has been with General Electric, now a quality leader in postsales service.

He married the former Ethel Crispin, who now resides in Clarion, in 1967.