1. Elwood Snow "Woody" Romney was an American basketball player and coach.
10 Facts About Elwood Romney
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Elwood Romney was an All-American at Brigham Young University and later played semi-professionally.
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Elwood Romney led the Cougars to a pair of Rocky Mountain Conference titles.
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Elwood Romney was named a consensus All-American in 1931 and again made the Helms Athletic Foundation All-America team in 1932.
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Elwood Romney was hired at Mines to work in multiple sports, and during his tenure at Mines Elwood Romney coached freshman football and was credited with creating a great deal of interest in intramural sports to where 300 students were taking part by the time he departed in 1939.
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Elwood Romney owned and ran it successfully until selling it in October 1941.
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Elwood Romney was a key figure in founding the Western League, a minor-league baseball circuit, and served as league president.
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In personal life, Elwood Romney was married to Ruth Hafen on June 26,1928.
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Elwood Romney was the son of Erastus Snow Romney and Roxie Maria Stowell and grandson of Miles Park Romney and Annie Marie Woodbury.
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Elwood Romney was inducted into the BYU Athletics Hall of Fame, the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame and the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.