Bill Wood (American football), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American football player and coach
Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1894
Place of Birth: Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 20-Aug-1966
Profession: head coach
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Bill Wood (American football)
- William Wallace Wood (November 15, 1894 – August 20, 1966) was an American football player and coach.
- He served as the head football coach at Gettysburg College from 1919 to 1926 and at Wesleyan University from 1927 to 1929, compiling a career college football record of 51–36–7.
- Wood played football at Pennsylvania State College from 1913 to 1915.
- While coaching at Wesleyan, Wood earned a degree from the Yale Divinity School.Wood was born on November 15, 1894 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
- He was ordained a Presbyterian minister and was appointed chaplain at Sailors' Snug Harbor in Staten Island, New York in 1939.
- He remained there until 1957, when he retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- Wood died of a blood disorder on August 20, 1966, at a hospital in York, Pennsylvania.
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