Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contemporaries rated Wood a tennis player of great promise, but he didn't have time to earn more than one letter. Legend has him playing tennis against Yale between innings of baseball games...
Somehow in the press of nine varsity and three freshman seasons, Wood found time to complete a summa cum laude program in biology. In its cover story, November 23, 1931 Time recognized him as a sports figure of national prominence. "Although a mediocre runner and at times an uninspired field general," Time said, Wood has managed to win the hearts of the most ardent South Boston Harvard-haters. Even "the Boston and Cambridge policemen root for him," the Yale-biased magazine said...
...best Horatio-Alger style, Wood broke on the national scene in the first game of the 1929 season. An untried sophomore, he spent the early stages of the game sitting on the bench. But with Army ahead by seven points, he got his chance, and Harvard's most unbelievable sports saga commenced. Wood quickly moved the team downfield, getting a clutch touchdown on a 40-yard pass. He then tied the game with a pressure-filled dropkick for the extra point...
...latter day chronicler has said, "The story of that game has been told hundreds of times and will be told hundreds more. It was a debut which left nothing to be desired from young Mr. Wood's standpoint, and it was only a taste of what was to follow...
...same era--pint-sized scatback Albie Booth. Much like the Kennedy-Johnson struggles of the present day, the annual Harvard-Yale football clashes were billed as head-to-head individual confrontations rather than as the quarrels between the two divergent philosophical approaches they so obviously were. Booth and Wood generally went both ways--offense and defense. They did the place-kicking for their respective teams and dominated the ground-gaining operations...