[9] Wood was recruited to the Melbourne Football Club from Old Melburnians in 1928;[10] he appeared in five senior games.

He moved to Western Australia in 1928 for business reasons,[11] where he played 20 matches for the Perth Football Club in 1929.

[4] He toured New Zealand with a Melbourne Cricket Club team in 1927; and, in a match against Taranaki, he top-scored with 75 runs.

[16] In February 1932, when batting for the West Perth Cricket Club, he scored 132 runs.

[19] Wood was also the joint holder of several Transcontinental Motoring records, established with Dr. Alan MacKay, in 1927, in an Essex Super Six.