In MemoriamWilliam Woodward, 70, who chronicled the history of the URI basketball program and its legendary coach Frank Keaney, died July 24 after a brief illness. The son of the late URI President Carl Woodward, he was an adjunct professor of education and assistant editor in the Office of Athletic Media Relations. Previously he was a public school administrator for 32 years in Suffern, N.Y.
Woodward authored the book, Keaney: If You Don’t Love to Play, Pivot and Go Home, and his next book, The Runnin’ Rams: The History of the University of Rhode Island Basketball, is scheduled for release this fall. Upon Woodward’s death, Providence Journal sports columnist Bill Reynolds wrote, he “was one of the all-time great local college basketball fans... [He] seemed a product of a better era, a selfless man who did things because they were right, not for what they could do for him. A selfless man who always seemed to be donating his time for something.”
Woodward was the official historian of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and volunteered at the Institute for International Sport. He served as a trustee of the URI Foundation and the South County Hospital Foundation and as past president of the Kingston Improvement Association.
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