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Willie Wood
Sign in to saveAlso known as William Vernell Wood Sr.
American football safety (1936-2020)
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Willie Wood is indexed among the 315 entries in Vinony's Pro Football Hall of Fame collection.
Within Vinony's link graph, Willie Wood is referenced by 851 other articles, and connects out to Washington, D.C., African Americans and American football.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It sits within the topics 1936 births, 2020 deaths and 20th-century African-American sportsmen.
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Known for
- Run To Daylight1964
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Wood
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C.
- Educated at
- University of Southern California
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- American football
- Position played
- safety
- Mass
- 86
- Height
- 1.78
Show 7 more facts
- cause of death
- dementia
- name in native language
- Willie Wood
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- William Vernell Wood Sr.
- date of birth
- 1936-12-23
- date of death
- 2020-02-03
- place of burial
- Rock Creek Cemetery
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Washington, D.C.
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African Americans
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American football
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dementia
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National Football League
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University of Southern California
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Super Bowl
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O. J. Simpson
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Jim Thorpe
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Green Bay Packers
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Southern California
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Jim Brown
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Peyton Manning
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quarterback
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Vince Lombardi
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Jerry Rice
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chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Disease
Brett Favre
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Johnny Unitas
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Categories
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