Charles Winter Wood Explained

Charles Winter Wood
Birth Date:	17 December 1869
Birth Place:	Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Death Place:	Queens, New York, U.S.
Coach Years1:	1897–1901
Coach Team1:	Tuskegee
Overall Record:	1–3

Charles Winter Wood (December 17, 1869 – June 9, 1953) was an American educator and actor^[1] who graduated from Beloit College in Beloit, WI. He was the second head football coach at Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama and he held that position for four seasons, from 1897 until 1901. His coaching record at Tuskegee was 1–3.^[2] Wood spent 30 years at the Tuskegee Institute in the English and Drama departments. He was also an actor.^[3]

Wood died in 1953 at a hospital Queens, New York of an illness.^{[3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Who's who in the South and Southwest: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the Southern and Southwestern States. August 14, 1947. Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin. Google Books.
2. Web site: Tuskegee Coaching Records. https://web.archive.org/web/20080516050912/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ii/siac/tuskegee/coaching_records.php. May 16, 2008. College Football Data Warehouse.
3. Web site: Archives: Charles Winter Wood . Beloit College Archvies . https://web.archive.org/web/20160307234417/http://www.beloit.edu/archives/documents/archival_collections/alumni/charles_wood/ . 2016-03-07.
4. Web site: The New York Age from New York, New York on June 20, 1953 · Page 16. Newspapers.com.