Andy Woods Elementary School
Smith County
Tyler, TX
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We have the following years:
1989
1993
2003
History of Andy Woods Elementary School
The Thomas Andrew Woods Elementary School is located in Southwest Tyler, 809 Clyde Drive on a ten acre site. The school first opened its doors to students in September, 1956.
The school was named in honor of Thomas Andrew Woods, who was a physical education teacher and a popular head coach at Hogg Junior High School during the years that Hogg-Roberts Junior High School athletic rivalry reached its peak. Attendance at these junior high school games exceeded 5,000 on several occasions. His teams always received strong support from parents, students and community people, for they knew that Woods inspired his players to do their best at all time and the he judged those boys fairly on the basis of their performance, with no outside interference.
He sometimes pointed out to teachers that the lines from the poem “It matters games not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game. . .” might apply to the game of life but that in sport it did matter; you must win if possible. This affable young coach enjoyed nothing better than playing a practical joke on some friend or teacher.
Woods, a great lover of boys, operated The Tyler Little League Summer Baseball program for eight consecutive years after the Korean War. In the midst of his busy schedule, he always found time to work with his church, where he was both a deacon and a trustee. This successful coach died at the age of 42 and was buried at Waldrop Cemetery near Beckville.[1]
Rites Tomorrow for Andy Woods