[3] Nicknamed during his "yearling" (sophomore) year at West Point "Babe" by his teammate Dwight David Eisenhower, he was described in The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation (Jenkins, S., Random House 2007) as a "tireless, one-man wrecking crew."

After graduating from West Point, Weyand served with distinction in World War I, where he earned a Silver Star (gallantry), Purple Heart (wounded in action) and battlefield promotion to major and battalion commander.

In retirement, Col. Weyand wrote a series of acclaimed sports histories, including the seminal Saga of American Football (New York: MacMillan, 1955), foreword by Grantland Rice who described him as probably the then foremost living authority on the sport, winner of the 1955 Helms Athletic Foundation Award, and "Football Immortals" winner of the 1962 Helms Award.

Sports historian John Sayle Watterson in his book College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) described the "Saga" as follows "[s]uccinct and fast-paced, Weyand's history masterfully depicts the game's origins, its early stars and teams, the geographic expansion of football, and the changes in its rules."

[6] His son, Lieutenant General Alexander Mulqueen Weyand (1928-2011), graduated from West Point in 1952 and was a member of the 1951 National Championship Lacrosse team.