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was | American football player | |
Work field | Sports | |
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Birth | 1894 | |
Death | 1980 (aged 86 years) |
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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).
Wood began his coaching career at Shurtleff College in Illinois. He followed that up with tenures as the head football coach (1923–1924), head men's basketball coach (1924–1925), and head baseball coach (1924–1925) at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He returned to his hometown of Alton, Illinois to serve as a coach at the local high school.