Alfred E. Woodward was named to the “All-Oberlin” football team at the guard position by C.W. Savage, Oberlin’s first director of athletics upon Savage’s retirement in 1935. A economics major at Oberlin, Woodward went on to receive a law degree from Northwestern University in 1938. He has served as an attorney, circuit judge, and appellate judge in Illinois and was a communications officer in the United States Navy in the Gilbert and Marianas Islands during World War II. He has four children and three step children and his son Bob, won the Pulitzer Prize for “All the President’s Men.”