Walter_W._Wood

Walter W. Wood

Walter W. Wood

American football player and sports coach (1894–1980)

Walter W. "Punk" Wood (1894 – 1980) was an American football player and a football, basketball, and baseball coach. He lettered three times as a quarterback and center at the University of Kansas (1914–1915, 1919).[1]

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Wood began his coaching career at Shurtleff College in Illinois.[2] He followed that up with tenures as the head football coach (1923–1924),[3] head men's basketball coach (1924–1925), and head baseball coach (1924–1925)[citation needed] at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He returned to his hometown of Alton, Illinois to serve as a coach at the local high school.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "2018 Football Media Guide". Kansas Jayhawks football. 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  2. [2]
    "1912 Team as Class Talks Reunion". Alton Evening Telegraph. September 27, 1962. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  3. [3]
    "The Muhlenberg Weekly (1959-1960)". Muhlenberg College. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Walter Wood". Alton Evening Telegraph. February 21, 1934. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
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