Jim Wood (American football)

Jim Wood
Oklahoma State Cowboys
Position End
Class Graduate
Career history
College Oklahoma State University (1956–1958)
Personal information
Born: (1936-07-27) July 27, 1936
Career highlights and awards

Jim Wood (born c. 1936) is a former American football player. He played college football at the end position at Oklahoma State University from 1956 to 1958. He was selected by the American Football Coaches Association as a first-team end on its 1958 College Football All-America Team,[1] and as a third-team player by the Associated Press.[2][3] At the end of the 1958 season, an experiment was conducted in which data from 145 football coaches was input into a Univac computer to determine who was the best college football player in the country. The computer ranked Wood as the nation's second best player behind George Deiderich of Vanderbilt.[4] Wood capped his collegiate career by leading Oklahoma State to a 15–6 victory over Florida State in the 1958 Bluegrass Bowl.

Wood later coached at the collegiate and professional levels, including a five-year stint as the head coach at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico from 1968 to 1972.[5]

Head coaching record

College

Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
New Mexico State Aggies (NCAA University Division independent) (1968–1971)
1968 New Mexico State 5–5
1969 New Mexico State 5–5
1970 New Mexico State 4–6
1971 New Mexico State 5–5–1
New Mexico State Aggies (Missouri Valley Conference) (1972)
1972 New Mexico State 2–91–37th
New Mexico State: 21–30–11–3
Total:21–30–1

References

  1. ↑ "Grid Coaches Select Team". Eugene Register-Guard. December 7, 1958.
  2. ↑ "Iowa's Randy Duncan Heads AP's All-American Team". Salisbury Times. Salisbury, Maryland.
  3. ↑ "Randy Hawkins Heads A.P. All-America Team". Reading Eagle. December 4, 1958. p. 34.
  4. ↑ "Oklahoma State Says Wood Is Nation's "Best" Gridder". The Spokesman-Review (AP story). December 11, 1958. p. 18.
  5. ↑ Gove, Chris (December 19, 1998). "Quanah's Wood ends distinguished coaching career". Amarillo Globe-News. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
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