[2] His first game for Melbourne was on the half-back flank, against South Melbourne, at the Lake Oval, on 8 May 1897, the first round of the first year of the new VFL competition.
Wood played in the VFL team against Ballarat Football League in 1898.
[3] At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus, Reginald Wilmot ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition: From those he considered to be the three best players — that is, Condon, Hickey, and Pleass — Wilmot selected Pat Hickey as his "champion player" of the season.
[4] He died at a private hospital in East Melbourne, Victoria on 16 November 1945.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1870s is a stub.