Wade Stowell "Red" Woodworth (August 23, 1905 – June 29, 1992) was an

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player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the

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for the final five games of the 1937 season. Woodworth played

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as a

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. On May 9, 1931, he won the fourth annual Albany to New York water marathon, an outboard motor race. Woodworth signed a contract with the

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of the

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(NFL) to play professional football, but withdrew from the agreement to begin his coaching career an assistant coach at Cincinnati in the fall of 1931. Woodworth owned a

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stable and was in the fish transportation business before returning to Cincinnati as line coach in 1937.

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