Jim Wood (American football)

Jim Wood (born July 27, 1936) is an American former gridiron football player and coach.

He played college football at the end position at Oklahoma State University from 1956 to 1958.

The computer ranked Wood as the nation's second best player behind George Deiderich of Vanderbilt.

Wood later coached at the collegiate and professional levels, including a five-year stint as the head coach at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico from 1968 to 1972.

[5] He was the head coach for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1973 to 1975.