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Woody was a teacher of life. He taught his players to go all out, to put everything they had into doing everything they could. And not just in football but in life, thus the paying forward which he borrowed from Emerson.
But in teaching his kids he had to be intense himself or they would not have believed him. Just look at the kids that didn't even play for him that he helped. Look at what he did for Rob Lytle who refused Woody and went to Mich. Woody didn't really hate any team or player. He just did things in the way necessary to teach his kids. Sure he was considered by many to be mean but he wasn't , he was hard in teaching football. He taught them to be the best so that they could pay froward.
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Chance meeting in Chicago
I was flying from San Antonio where I was statiioned as a basic Training Officer at Lackland Air Force base to Dayton, Ohio to be in my youngest sister's wedding. I was flying in uniform, for the military rate. (it was February 1962.) I had a stop-over in Chicago to change planes for Dayton, when I went into the Magazine shop for reading material for my next flight. As I turned a corner to enter the shop, I ran head-on into Woody Hayes." Excuse me, Coach,"I stammered. I was almost speechless running into such an icon. He stood lookiing up at me ( I had never realized he was so short!) studying me up and down in my Air Force Blues and my shinny goldbar, trying to recognize who I was! "Did you ever play for me?" he demanded. "NNoo", I stammmer again. Still starring straight into my eyes with the most intense eyes I had ever seen. He barked, "Well. you should have!" ( This chance meeting is still vivid in my mind as if it were yesterday, even after 45 years. I never knew at that time how much regard he had for those in uniform and his love of Military History. THis was just after my hometown, (Troy,OH) hero, Bob Ferguson ,had finished second in the Heisman Trophy and Woody had been denied a Rose Bowl trip. It was after or on his way to a recruiting trip, I suppose. It was a brief meeting but gave me an insight into how intense of a man he was. I was an OU alumnus, but a Buckeye fan non-the less and have been since Wes Fesler was coach. Our OU coach was the great and humble Carroll Widdoes which I had met at OU and knew he had once coached at OSU. The OU Post always mentioned he had been coach of the year while at OHio State.
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Mrs. Hayes
Years ago, when Mrs.Hayes was speaking in Troy, I had tickets but gave them to my (Now) wife. She said Mrs. Hayes told this story: "that when she took a long relaxing bubble bath Woody would bring her a glass of wine and a long stemmed rose for her to enjoy . A side of him many Trojans did not know!
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1977 show about Wayne Woodrow Hayes. PLayers and coaches give their thoughts about Woody.
I loved this; 1977 Woody.mpg.torrent (21.8 KB)
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Great story from a great mans life.
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When woody went to recruit Jack Tatum (the Assassin) for his in house visit he spent five minutes talking to Jack and 2 hours talking to his mom. He later told Jack he knew he had him because he won over his mom and that Jack was a "momma's boy"
![]() Tatum related how his mom said that she liked that man a lot.
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I recently became acqainted with two men who were friends of Woody.
One was a coach of men's gymnastics in the 60's and 70's and a member of the ncaa men's gymanastics hall of fame. The other was a high school coach at Scott high school in Toledo back in the 60's and a friend of Woody. Needless to say I managed to get the "Woody" stories going. so here is one. At one time there was a player named Aurealius Thomas who fell asleep in Woody's football class. Woody's unceremoniusly dumped his chair over and Thomas landed on his face. After Woody's tirade Thomas simply said something to the effect that he was only "visualizing" what Woody had been talking about.
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But in what should not be a surprise, his football abilities apparently didn't warrant special treatment from Woody. ![]() bp.Aurealius Thomas
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Once a high school coach and some of his captains were invited to see the Buckeyes play up in Ann Arbor. They were subsequently invited to enter the tunnel where they were met by .. nobody. After a time Woody happened to come out into the tunnel and asked his friend , the coach to introduce his captains. Upon being introduced to the first a kid named Cole, he remarked Oh the wrestler, I' ve admired watching you wrestle since you were a sophomore. And the second Woody remarked that he knew the boys dad well. A kid named Green, whose dad played for the Browns.
Cole went on to play for TU for Frank Lauterbur during their 35 game win streak and Green played at BG. Woody then invited the kids to come on in and meet his men. Imagine what that would have felt like. I would have peed my pants or something . ![]() This is one of the weapons Woody used in his recruiting. He knew of , or knew every athelete in every sport who excelled in that sport. He knew their parents and as much as he could learn about them if he developed any interest at all in them.
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