Southern Arkansas University Athletics

Dennis Woodberry enrolled at Southern Arkansas University in 1979 as a 5-10, 186-pound defensive back, after playing high school football and participating in track and field at Arkansas High School in Texarkana.
                
While playing at Southern Arkansas, Woodberry was named Second Team National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-America defensive back in 1983, and was NAIA All-District 17 and All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) in football.  He set a school record that still stands for career interceptions with 27, and tied a school record for passes intercepted in a season, with eight in 1981.
           
Woodberry was also an outstanding sprinter on the Mulerider track and field team.  In 1983, he set a new AIC record in the 200-meter dash with a time of 20.88.  The Muleriders won three consecutive conference championships in 1983, ‘84, and ‘85. Woodberry was All-AIC and NAIA All-America in track and field.
           
After All-America honors in two different sports while at SAU, he played two years with the Birmingham Stallions of the now defunct United States Football League (USFL).  A sixth-round pick, he started as a rookie with the Stallions.  From there, he was selected in the third round of a supplemental draft by the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL), where he played in seven games in which he intercepted two passes and returned them 14 yards.

Woodberry went on to play for the Washington Redskins in 1987 and ‘88.  He played in Super Bowl XXII in 1988 against the Denver Broncos.  Denver took a 10-0 first quarter lead, only for Washington to roar back with 35 unanswered second quarter points, en route to a convincing 42-10 rout of John Elway and company.  The Redskins reached the Super Bowl with a 21-17 win over the Chicago Bears.