Sam Wood

Stockport’s Sam Wood was equally at home either in goal or in defence. Originally a goalkeeper, he switched to defence before reverting back to tending the goals towards the latter part of his career.

Along with H. H. Crofts, Wood was one of two late selections for the 1928 Great Britain Olympic squad but, unlike Crofts, he did not play in Amsterdam. Wood played for The North and also won county honours with Cheshire and was their skipper when they won the 1933 County Championship. With Stockport he won the Iroquois Cup in 1926 when they beat Buckhurst Hill 24-2, in 1928 when they beat Oxford University 7-6, and in 1934 with a record 25-5 win over Cambridge University.