Gordon Wood Coach
Winning attitudes relationships.
Gordon wood coach. The gordon woods game plan to winning football coaches ed consists of 357 pages in a three ring binder. Wood mainly ran a variant of the single wing formation called warren woodson wing t named after the former hardinsimmons coach whom wood admired. He was a head football coach for forty three seasons winning or sharing twenty five district championships and nine state championships.
Gordon grew up in west texas and spent much of his childhood picking cotton to help support his family. Gordon woods coaching record includes nine state football championships and three hundred and ninety six victories. Wood was a dry land cotton farmer.
David jones was surprised when his head football coach at brownwood high school seven time state champion gordon wood retired in december 1985. When you read coach woods autobiography youd better get ready for some football. And katharine wood the youngest of eight children.
Gordon lenear wood may 25 1914 december 17 2003 was a high school football coach in texas. Until the press conference we didnt know he was. This is the life story of the winningest football coach in history an exhilarating read full of humor love and perseverance.
The book is further divided by tabs each of which addresses a different part of coach woods advice and coaching philosophy. When you read coach woods autobiography youd better get ready for some football. Gordon babe wood high school football coach was born on may 25 1914 in guion texas to avery v.
Gordon lenear wood was an american high school football coach in texas. Unusual plays that produced. Gordon wood walked off the football field as the nations winningest high school football coach in 1985 but he never stopped being a coach.
This is the life story of the winningest football coach in history an exhilarating read full of humor love and perseverance. Lessons from wins close misses. And game play diagrams with an index to the play diagrams.
Gordon woods coaching record includes nine state football championships and three hundred and ninety six victories. Wood who has the highest winning record of any high school coach in the country had been asked to appear on the show to defend schoolboy football and was unware the film was to be shown. The man who influenced legions of coaches from high.