Willie Wood (American football)
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| Position: | Safety | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | December 23, 1936 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Washington, D.C. | ||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Armstrong (DC) | ||||||||
| College: | Southern California | ||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1960 | ||||||||
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| Interceptions: | 48 |
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| Interception yards: | 699 |
| Touchdowns: | 2 |
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William Vernell Wood Sr. (born December 23, 1936) is a former American football safety for the Green Bay Packers in the National Football League (NFL), and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
After graduating from Armstrong High School in Washington, D.C. in 1956, Wood went west and played college football in southern California, playing his freshman year at Coalinga Junior College and was a junior college All-American.
He transferred to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1957 and played for the Trojans under first-year head coach Don Clark. the USC Trojans, where he was the first African American quarterback in the history of the Pacific Coast Conference and its successor AAWU, now the Pac-12 Conference.
As a junior in 1958, he was sidelined with an injured shoulder, and as a senior in 1959, he separated his right shoulder and missed several games.
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