In Memory

Charles R (Bob) Osgood (Teacher)

Charles R (Bob) Osgood (Teacher)



 
go to bottom 
  Post Comment

01/22/13 08:45 PM #1    

Jay Spaulding

Coach Osgood was a tough marine who gave me the chance to play football for Sammamish. I was only a 145lb. nothing when he moved me up to varisity in my Sophomore year. I think everyone was nervous around him. It seemed he knew what we were thinking and what we would say before we ever spoke a word. He was on one of the first waves of infantrymen on the attack of Guadalcanal. His blue piercing eyes could look right through you! I think about him occasionally and hope that he would consider me to have become the kind of man worthy of his association.


08/10/13 12:57 PM #2    

Sandra Wittmeier (Taylor)

Charles Robert Osgood (Ozzie, Uncle Bob, Coach) was born October 28, 1923, to Charles O. and Winifred Osgood (Thompson) in Hoquiam, WA.  He passed away after a brief illness on October 19, 2010, in Olympia, WA.

Ozzie graduated from Elma High School in 1942 where he ws an outstanding athlete earning several awards playing football.  He went on to a distinguished college football career at Central WA University where he was starting guard on both offense and defense.  His college education was interrupted by his enlistment in the Marine Corps.  He served during WWII from July 1943 to January 1946...  He graduated from Central in 1949.  In 1948 he was presented with the Williamson Award as the most valuable small college football player in the country...  In 1983 Ozzie was inducted into the CWU Athletic Hall of Fame as "perhaps the greatest football player in the history of Central and certainly the recipient of more individual awards and honors in a single season than any other Central athlete".

He started his coaching career in 1949 and after several coaching assignments... was hired as head football coach at Sammamish High in 1959.  He retired from coaching in 1966 and teaching in 1979.  In retirement he moved to Greenwater, WA & his cabin along the river...

He was an expert craftsman building cabinets, tables, rocking horses and anything out of wood that friends or family wanted or needed...  He is preceded in death by his parents and brothers Claude and Leo.  Uncle Bob is survived by eleven nieces and nephews and hundreds of friends.

 

Note from Bob Naff:  There is a  big connection between Bob Osgood and Corky Bridges.  Corky is a CWU grad also and was a  highly touted football player when Osgood was coach there; thus the connection in Corky joining Sammamish. 


go to top 
  Post Comment

 




agape