Family
Wood's uncle Watson Washburn was a Davis Cup team member. He credited his uncle with introducing him to tennis.
Wood was the father of David, Colin, Sidney III and W. Godfrey Wood. Sidney Wood III, a Yale tennis player, died at the age of 22 in an early morning car accident in a car driven by a tennis teammate on a North Carolina highway in 1961;
Wood is survived by his other three sons. Colin Wood is the subject in Diane Arbus' famous 1962 photograph Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park.
David Wood lives in New York and works for a law firm.
W. Godfrey Wood lives in Maine and still holds the collegiate season record for lowest goals against average (1.21 GAA, in 1962), as a goalie for Harvard's hockey team. His save percentage of .945 ranks second in all time NCAA standings (only .001 behind .946). He also started the Hartford Whalers and the Portland Pirates.
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