Jim Woodruff


James Lee Woodruff was an American football player.
Woodruff was born in 1903 in Johnson County, Nebraska. He grew up and attended high school in Hillsboro, Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois.
Woodruff played professional football in the National Football League as an end and tackle for the Chicago Cardinals in 1926 and the Buffalo Bisons in 1929. He appeared in seven NFL games, five as a starter. He scored one touchdown during the 1929 season.
Woodruff served as the President of the Illinois Funeral Directors Association. He died in 2007 in Tucson, Arizona. He is said to have been the longest lived NFL player in history.