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Post by Clemensbuff on Jun 8, 2022 9:54:37 GMT -6
Sinton gave the Baseball team sendoff this morning with fans lining the street. Sinton going to state and not Calallen is the problem. Problem? Problem for who. Good for Sinton. Hell, I was pulling for them because I think they are the best team and have the best chance to bring another title home to R4. Wake up Sybil
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Post by Clemensbuff on Jun 8, 2022 9:58:40 GMT -6
Coach Gordon Wood would tell his players to get out there and have fun. He had a player that seemed to be always be unhappy. He called him into his office and told the kid if your not having fun in High school , your not going to have fun the rest of your life. I will ask him when I see him next. I'm not sure if I can get back in touch with you. So all those pages and pages about him putting the raising good citizens displaying good sportsmanship as most important was bull ****. Yes Because it doesn't fit his argument here. Duh
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Post by gp37 on Jun 9, 2022 16:55:47 GMT -6
Everything you stalkers post is Bull. Clementine whines he is a over worked and underpaid Moderator but still has time to stalk and post useless drivel. Flubberfan is a former moderator that could not cut it. CCVomits just stalks. WE have had a few moderator's before that are like politicians that get a little power. It goes to their head and I guess they keep score of how many posters leave this blog because of their arrogance. I run into one every now and then at his grand kids ball games. I keep getting hit over the head with 9 time state champ in Football and 2 time state champ in Track, Coach Gordon Wood. Bring it on. Bye.
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Post by Hounhound on Jun 9, 2022 17:02:22 GMT -6
Everything you stalkers post is Bull. Clementine whines he is a over worked and underpaid Moderator but still has time to stalk and post useless drivel. Flubberfan is a former moderator that could not cut it. CCVomits just stalks. WE have had a few moderator's before that are like politicians that get a little power. It goes to their head and I guess they keep score of how many posters leave this blog because of their arrogance. I run into one every now and then at his grand kids ball games. I keep getting hit over the head with 9 time state champ in Football and 2 time state champ in Track, Coach Gordon Wood. Bring it on. Bye. Bye.
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Post by Clemensbuff on Jun 9, 2022 20:40:07 GMT -6
Everything you stalkers post is Bull. Clementine whines he is a over worked and underpaid Moderator but still has time to stalk and post useless drivel. Flubberfan is a former moderator that could not cut it. CCVomits just stalks. WE have had a few moderator's before that are like politicians that get a little power. It goes to their head and I guess they keep score of how many posters leave this blog because of their arrogance. I run into one every now and then at his grand kids ball games. I keep getting hit over the head with 9 time state champ in Football and 2 time state champ in Track, Coach Gordon Wood. Bring it on. Bye. Man that hurts coming out of you. Go research some more Gordon Wood and tell us how he was the greatest ever some more!
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Post by gp37 on Jun 10, 2022 16:55:07 GMT -6
GORDON WOOD (1914-03) 44 years; 394-93-15; 24-21-9 1940 Rule 2-8-0 1941 Rule 4-3-2 1942 Haskell 1-0-0 —military, WW II— (did not coach first 2 games in 1945 1945 Roscoe 8-1-0* 1946 Roscoe 6-1-2 1947 Seminole 9-2-0* 1948 Seminole 6-3-1 1949 Seminole 4-4-2 1950 Winters 6-4-0 1951 Stamford 9-1-0 1952 Stamford 13-1-0* 1953 Stamford 11-1-0* 1954 Stamford 9-1-0 1955 Stamford 15-0-0* 1956 Stamford 15-0-0* 1957 Stamford 8-2-0 1958 Victoria 6-4-0 1959 Victoria 6-3-1 1960 Brownwood 13-1-0* 1961 Brownwood 8-1-1 1962 Brownwood 11-1-0* 1963 Brownwood 8-2-0 1964 Brownwood 7-2-1 1965 Brownwood 14-0-0* 1966 Brownwood 8-2-0 1967 Brownwood 12-1-1* 1968 Brownwood 9-3-0* 1969 Brownwood 11-3-0* 1970 Brownwood 12-1-1* 1971 Brownwood 10-3-0* 1972 Brownwood 6-4-0 1973 Brownwood 9-1-0 1974 Brownwood 11-1-1* 1975 Brownwood 8-2-0 1976 Brownwood 10-2-0* 1977 Brownwood 13-1-0* 1978 Brownwood 14-1-0* 1979 Brownwood 10-3-0* 1980 Brownwood 8-3-1* 1981 Brownwood 13-1-0* 1982 Brownwood 9-3-0 R 1983 Brownwood 8-4-0 R 1984 Brownwood 6-3-1 1985 Brownwood 8-4-0 R
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Post by gp37 on Jun 10, 2022 17:02:16 GMT -6
Former football coach Gordon Wood dies KRISTIE RIEKEN Dec. 17, 2003 Comments Associated Press Writer
Gordon Wood walked off the football field as the nation's winningest high school football coach in 1985, but he never stopped being a coach.
The man who influenced legions of coaches from high school to the professional ranks and was drawing plays as late as last week died Wednesday. He was 89.
"Football was always on his mind," said Eddie Joseph, executive director of the Texas High School Coaches Association and Wood's friend of 47 years. "It was his life."
Wood developed a bronchial infection that developed into pneumonia last week, then had a heart attack Saturday night, said longtime assistant coach Kenneth West.
Wood, who won nine state championships back when there were fewer classes and only one title per class, coached at eight schools and compiled a 396-91-15 record from 1940-85. He's mostly identified with Brownwood, where he won seven titles in 26 years.
A private funeral service has been scheduled for Sunday in Brownwood. A public service will follow at 3 p.m. at Mims Auditorium on the campus of Howard Payne University in Brownwood.
Throughout retirement, Wood often could be found traveling the state to watch games. He also maintained a small, cluttered office in downtown Brownwood. A nameplate on the outside of Wood's office building, where he never paid rent, simply reads "Coach Wood." He was always greeted as "Coach" throughout the West Texas city of about 19,000.
"Football has lost a real treasure," said former University of Texas coach Darrell Royal, who knew Wood for 47 years. "He had the magic, there's no question about that."
Wood's football mind _ so keen that Royal often sought his advice _ remained sharp, especially when talking about details of the run-based Wing T formation.
"It's amazing how long he continued to drive to different football functions, to coaching clinics," Royal said. "He stayed interested in football long after he quit coaching."
One coach influenced by Wood is Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells. Wood used to drive to Lubbock to watch Texas Tech football practice when Parcells was defensive coordinator.
"He was very much an inspiration to me when I was a young coach, only because of something he was doing that I couldn't fathom," Parcells said recently. "Why some guy would be driving five hours a day to watch me coach linebackers for spring practice?"
G.A. Moore, the Pilot Point coach who last year passed Wood as the state's winningest coach, considered Wood his idol.
"We lost the greatest coach that we ever had," Moore said.
This fall, Brownwood's newly renovated sports complex was named in Wood's honor. At the entrance to the school's stadium, which has long carried his name, a bronze statue depicts Wood on the sideline, in his oft-seen crouch, surrounded by seven helmets _ one for each of his titles with the Lions.
A member of both the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame and the National High School Hall of Fame, Wood was named as the National High School Football Coach of the Year in 1979.
He was named as runner-up to Royal as "Coach of the Century" in the December 1999 issue of Texas Monthly.
Wood lost his status as the nation's winningest coach about a decade ago. He maintained his grip on the state list until Moore caught up in 2002.
"You've got people who break Babe Ruth's record every time you turn around, but that doesn't make them better than him," Wood told The Associated Press last year. "That might sound silly, but that's the way I feel about it."
Wood was thought to have surpassed 400 career victories during his final season, 1985. He even received a letter from former President Ronald Reagan congratulating him on the milestone.
In 2001, researchers working on a Texas high school football book found Wood's career coaching record actually was 396 _ nine fewer victories than the mark which he was credited.
The mix-up stemmed from his very first season in 1940 at Rule. He was credited with going 8-2, but UIL and other unofficial records show 2-8.
"I didn't hardly win any games at Rule," he said.
Wood lived most of his life in West Texas, growing up near Abilene and attending Hardin-Simmons University on a basketball and football scholarship. He spent two years at Rule, then joined the Navy during World War II.
He then coached at Roscoe (1945-46), Seminole (1947-49) and Winters (1950). His career took off at Stamford, where he went 80-6 with two state championships from 1951-57.
After two years at Victoria, Moore was so interested in returning to West Texas that he took a pay cut from $10,000 to $7,500.
He wanted to go to San 5ngelo, but lost out to Emory Bellard, who later made his mark by creating the Wishbone. Wood ended up in Brownwood, where he produced one of the most powerful dynasties in Texas history. He went 257-52-7, reaching the playoffs 19 times and never having a losing season.
Among Wood's innovations were kicking off out of a huddle and using a lineman-eligible formation called the "Crazy 8s" that was so unusual that Wood briefed the referees beforehand so they wouldn't throw a flag on sight.
Wood often threw on first down, which at the time was unheard of in Texas. Last year, he said he liked the new, wide-open attacks _ but he'd still use the Wing T.
"And it would work," Wood said last year.
"It would," Royal said Wednesday night, "if you were Gordon Wood."
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Post by gp37 on Jun 10, 2022 17:11:48 GMT -6
The third line of the above post has comment by Coach Eddie Joseph who was assistant to Coach Gordon Wood at Victoria. He continued coaching with the Philosophy he learned under Coach Gordon Wood. I think you may have heard of Coach Eddie Joseph www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRclyL9Ls7U
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Post by gp37 on Jun 10, 2022 17:17:59 GMT -6
WOOD, GORDON (1914–2003).Gordon "Babe" Wood, high school football coach, was born on May 25, 1914, in Guion, Texas, to Avery V. and Katharine Wood, the youngest of eight children. A. V. Wood was a dry-land cotton farmer. Gordon grew up in West Texas and spent much of his childhood picking cotton to help support his family.
In the seventh grade Wood played in his first football game. He misinterpreted the "fight" chants at the pep rally, and during the game he spent most of his time beating up the opponent he was supposed to block. He graduated from Wylie High School where he was an athlete and a starter in both basketball and track. In 1934 Gordon Wood was recruited by Coach Leslie "Fats" Cranfill who offered Wood an athletic scholarship to Hardin-Simmons University. He played football and basketball, ran track, and boxed in order to maintain his scholarship.
In 1938 Wood received his first coaching job at Spur High School as assistant coach for football and head coach for track and basketball under Blackie Wadzik. Wood found his first head coaching position at Rule High School in 1940. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Navy. In 1942 while he was waiting to be called up for duty, the Abilene school district hired Coach Wood on a day-to-day basis to coach spring training for seventh and eighth graders. The following fall while on furlough for a few weeks, Wood filled in as head football coach at Haskell High School where he is credited with one win. Wood also coached basketball in the Navy using new recruits to form teams. Gordon Wood met his wife, Katharine, in San Diego; they married in January 1945; they had one daughter and one son.
The Navy discharged Gordon Wood early when he was hired as the principal at Roscoe High School. He taught three math courses and coached football, basketball, and track. At Roscoe Coach Wood started using his legendary winged-T offensive formation for the football team. In his first year Wood took his team through an undefeated season and won the district championship.
After two years at Roscoe, Wood moved to Seminole High School in 1947 and first hired assistant coach Morris Southall; they would coach together for more than thirty years. In three seasons Seminole had nineteen wins, nine losses, and three ties, including the 1947 district championship. Coach Southall became head coach at Seminole when Coach Wood moved to Winters High School for one year in 1950. In 1951 Coach Wood's Stamford Bulldogs won nine games. They made it to the state semifinals in 1952 and state quarterfinals in 1953. In 1955 and 1956 the Stamford Bulldogs earned back-to-back state championships and extended a winning streak to 32 games which finally ended at 35 wins during the 1957 season. Wood ended his seven-year career at Stamford with eighty wins and six losses, a 93 percent winning record. In 1958 Coach Wood moved to Victoria where he reunited with Morris Southall and first hired a former Stamford player, Kenneth West, as an assistant coach; they would coach together for twenty years. In two seasons Victoria had twelve wins, seven losses, and one tie. Coach Wood then moved to Brownwood High School in West Texas. Morris Southall followed Wood, and a few years later Kenneth West would join them.
In 1960, Coach Wood's first year at Brownwood, they claimed their first state championship. Over the next four seasons the Brownwood Lions won a total of thirty-four games, and in 1962 they made it to the state quarterfinals. In 1965 Wood converted his Lions' defense, and Brownwood went undefeated to claim their second state championship. In 1966 the Lions had eight victories. In 1967 Brownwood captured their third state championship. The 1968 Brownwood went undefeated in district play and secured another district title. The Lions won back-to-back state titles in 1969 and 1970.
On May 14, 1971, Gordon Wood was honored at a ceremony where he was accompanied by former players, coaches, senators, representatives, the Texas Lieutenant Governor, University of Texas Head Coach Darrell Royal, and former President Lyndon Johnson, who was the key speaker at the ceremony.
The Lions finished with their fifth straight district title in 1971. In 1972 Brownwood began playing in the newly built Cen-Tex Stadium, renamed Gordon Wood stadium in 1980. From the 1973 to the 1980 season Brownwood won or shared six district championships, and they won state in 1978. In 1981 the Lions claimed their seventh state championship. In 1982 Gordon Wood passed Red Franklin's record of 366 wins set back in 1958 to become the winningest high school football coach in the United States. The Lions lost in the state quarterfinals in 1985, the seventy-one year old coach's last game. Wood's Brownwood record ended with 257 wins, 52 losses, and 7 ties, an 82 percent winning record. He led them to seventeen district or co-district championships and seven state championships.
Gordon Wood set a state and national record with a total of 396–91–15 in forty-three seasons as a Texas high school head football coach, an 80 percent winning record. Wood won or shared twenty-five district championships, and eleven state championships including his 1948 Seminole track team and his 1954 Stamford golf team. Coach Wood's original record had been believed to be 405–88–12 (81 percent). He was believed to be the first and only coach to ever achieve four hundred wins; however in 2001 the Dallas Morning News reported that Wood's record had been corrected. Since his retirement four other high school coaches in the United States, including Coach G. A. Moore from Sherman, Texas, have broken Coach Wood's 396 win record. Gordon Wood also coached four Texas All Star Teams in 1957, 1958, 1977 and 1985 with wins in 1958 and 1977. Coach Wood coached the summer camp for the Canadian League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers professional team in the early 1970s.
Gordon Wood's awards include Texas Sportswriters Association Coach of the Year (1956, 1970, and 1978), the Texas High School Coaches Association Hall of Honor (1967) and Hall of Fame (1983), Hardin-Simmons University's Distinguished Alumni Award (1979) and Hall of Fame (1996), the National High School Athletic Coaches Association's National High School Football Coach of the Year (1979) and their Hall of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall of Fame (1983), the National High School Hall of Fame (1984), the Touchdown Club of Houston's Touchdowner of the Year Award (1986), and Football Coaches of America Lifetime Achievement Award (1999). In 1993 Martin Communications Publications named Wood Co-Coach of the Century along with Coach Paul Tyson in their Tops in Texas. In 1999 the Dallas Morning News named him Coach of the Century. The name became the title of his 2001 autobiography, Coach of the Century: an Autobiography by Gordon Wood.
Coach Wood is remembered as always being a student of football. He was also a strong opponent to the "no-pass, no-play" laws of the early 1980s. After his retirement he stayed very active, traveling across the state to watch high school teams compete and giving many speeches. He was notable for being one of Grant Teaff's Master Coaches in 2002. Coach Gordon Wood developed pneumonia and suffered a heart attack. He died in a hospital in Abilene on December 17, 2003. The Gordon Wood Hall of Champions Museum, located in the Depot Civic and Cultural Center in Brownwood, exhibits memorabilia from his long and storied career.
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Post by gp37 on Jun 10, 2022 17:23:21 GMT -6
Clementine, ask and you shall receive.
MIKE LEE: Brownwood coaches learned from legends Mike LeeSpecial to the Standard-Times
Brownwood head coach Sammy Burnett and assistant coach David Jones both played football at Brownwood for Gordon Wood and Randy Allen, two of the state’s top four all-time winningest coaches. David Jones was surprised when his head football coach at Brownwood High School, seven-time state champion Gordon Wood, retired in December 1985.
“Until the press conference, we didn’t know he was going to retire,” said Jones, who had just completed his junior season. “My dad (Jerry Jones) had played for Coach Wood, and I played for him. It was an impactful time.”
Jerry Jones was on the school board at the time, which meant he was part of Brownwood’s first football head coaching search in a quarter century.
“They were flooded with résumés, and my dad brought some of them home to go through,” David Jones said. “I shuffled through the resumes when dad wasn’t around.
“All of them were paper resumes except for Randy Allen’s. His was a thick package with newspaper clippings going all the way back to high school. He was way ahead of his time. To stand out with that many resumes, you need something more than a white piece of paper, and Coach Allen had it.”
Randy Allen, whose only head-coaching experience was five years at Ballinger, was hired to succeed Wood, who was 71 and the winningest coach in Texas at the time.
Even with the impressive résumé, Jones and Brownwood teammate Sammy Burnett were surprised that the 35-year-old Allen was hired as their new coach.
“I still wonder what his connection was to Brownwood,” Jones said. “He’s at Ballinger and, the next thing you know, he’s following Coach Wood.”
Burnett said, “We were like, ‘Who is this guy?’ ”
Burnett and Jones soon learned that Allen, despite being half Wood’s age, was an innovator. Off the field, Allen taught a class to get to know his new players beyond the playing field. He also led FCA with his guitar, and had football players sing Christmas carols at school.
On the field, Allen was similar to Wood in that both added wrinkles to the Wing-T offense. Allen motioned players out of the backfield and passed more than traditional Wing-T teams.
“We had run/pass options the quarterback called at the line, which most teams were not doing at the time,” Burnett said.
All Jones and Burnett knew in the 1980s was that Allen was a lot different from Wood.
“Coach Wood was at the end of his career and already established,” Burnett said. “He walked around campus and everybody knew him. He would tell you to pick up that piece of trash on the ground, and you did it with a smile because he was Coach Wood.
“Allen jumped into class and FCA with us. He was high energy, I mean all over the place.”
Allen had to grab his new players’ attention and earn their trust and respect. Wood already had all that.
“Coach Wood was like Bobby Bowden. He was more laid back later in his career. He ran the program, but he used his assistant coaches a lot more,” Jones said. “Coach Allen was more involved in every aspect. He even did push-ups with us.
“They were both good coaches. They just did it in different ways.”
Jones was a senior and Burnett a junior in Allen’s first season. They were teenage boys playing high school football. They couldn’t have known at the time that they were fortunate enough to play for two of the state’s winningest coaches – making them members of a small and elite fraternity.
Wood, who died in 2003, still ranks No. 3 on the Texas coaches career wins list with 394. Allen, who coached five years at Brownwood, then went to Abilene Cooper and is now at Dallas Highland Park, has worked his way up to No. 4 with 384 career wins.
“Even when we played here, we knew there was only one Coach Wood, and there never would be another one,” Burnett said. “I’ve thought a lot about what it meant to play for both Coach Wood and Coach Allen. I know I’ve been blessed.”
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Post by sotex on Jun 10, 2022 17:26:03 GMT -6
I like turtles...
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Post by FB fan on Jun 10, 2022 17:35:36 GMT -6
I favor the chocolate ones.
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Post by gpjohn on Jun 10, 2022 18:37:01 GMT -6
How in The heck did a baseball thread wind up talking about the all-time greatest football coach to ever blow a whistle?
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Post by sotex on Jun 10, 2022 18:37:09 GMT -6
I favor the chocolate ones. And pecans. 😋
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Post by gp37 on Jun 10, 2022 19:41:29 GMT -6
gpjohn the question you should ask about is Clem's ethics as a Mod. Moderator and Neutral are kind like non partisan. The Mod (Referee) is not supposed to trash the messenger.
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