Jim Wood (American football)
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 27, 1936 Tonkawa, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Playing career | |
| 1956–1958 | Oklahoma State |
| 1959 | Calgary Stampeders |
| 1959 | BC Lions |
| Position(s) | Hancock (assistant) |
| 1964–1967 | New Mexico State (assistant) |
| 1968–1972 | New Mexico State |
| 1973 | Calgary Stampeders (assistant) |
| 1973–1975 | Calgary Stampeders |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 21–30–1 (college) 10–19 (CFL) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| First-team All-American (1958) | |
Jim Wood (born July 27, 1936) is an American former
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] He was the head coach for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1973 to 1975.
Head coaching record
College
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico State Aggies (NCAA University Division independent) (1968–1970) | |||||||||
| 1968 | New Mexico State | 5–5 | |||||||
| 1969 | New Mexico State | 5–5 | |||||||
| 1970 | New Mexico State | 4–6 | |||||||
| New Mexico State Aggies (Missouri Valley Conference) (1971–1972) | |||||||||
| 1971 | New Mexico State | 5–5–1 | 0–0 | NA | |||||
| 1972 | New Mexico State | 2–9 | 1–4 | 7th | |||||
| New Mexico State: | 21–30–1 | 1–4 | |||||||
| Total: | 21–30–1 | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Grid Coaches Select Team". Eugene Register-Guard. December 7, 1958.
- ^ "Iowa's Randy Duncan Heads AP's All-American Team". Salisbury Times. Salisbury, Maryland.
- ^ "Randy Hawkins Heads A.P. All-America Team". Reading Eagle. December 4, 1958. p. 34.
- ^ "Oklahoma State Says Wood Is Nation's "Best" Gridder". The Spokesman-Review (AP story). December 11, 1958. p. 18.
- ^ Gove, Chris (December 19, 1998). "Quanah's Wood ends distinguished coaching career". Amarillo Globe-News. Retrieved January 26, 2018.