Gordon Wood Football Coach
Wood was a dry land cotton farmer.
Gordon wood football coach. When you read coach woods autobiography youd better get ready for some football. Lessons from wins close misses. The man who influenced legions of coaches from high.
Gordon grew up in west texas and spent much of his childhood picking cotton to help support his family. The book is further divided by tabs each of which addresses a different part of coach woods advice and coaching philosophy. Though it was primarily a running offense wood was ahead of his time because his teams could also pass effectively from it.
David jones was surprised when his head football coach at brownwood high school seven time state champion gordon wood retired in december 1985. Gordon woods coaching record includes nine state football championships and three hundred and ninety six victories. He was a head football coach for forty three seasons winning or sharing twenty five district championships and nine state championships.
Gordon wood walked off the football field as the nations winningest high school football coach in 1985 but he never stopped being a coach. Until the press conference we didnt know he was. His appearance on good morning america has given him.
The gordon woods game plan to winning football coaches ed consists of 357 pages in a three ring binder. And game play diagrams with an index to the play diagrams. Gordon lenear wood may 25 1914 december 17 2003 was a high school football coach in texas.
Gordon babe wood high school football coach was born on may 25 1914 in guion texas to avery v. Unusual plays that produced. Texas high school football coach bs 1938 and med 1952 gordon lenear wood was born may 25 1914 in moro texas the son of a cotton farmer.
Wood mainly ran a variant of the single wing formation called warren woodson wing t named after the former hardinsimmons coach whom wood admired. In more than 30 years as an assistant coach under gordon wood the last 26 at brownwood southall helped. Building a successful team.
Brownwood texas high school coach gordon woods football teams have given him more victories than any other schoolboy coach in the nation. And katharine wood the youngest of eight children. Gordon lenear wood was an american high school football coach in texas.
He was a head football coach for forty three seasons winning or sharing twenty five district championships and nine state championships. After graduating from wylie high school gordon came to hardin simmons university on basketball and football scholarships.