More than
a century ago, Wilkie Osgood Moody, who attended what today is Linfield
never competed as a Wildcat football player -- Linfield didn't have football at
the time -- but, played in the first National Football League game.
See this story from the Newark, Ohio, Advocate Sept
18, 2020 here:
Also, see posting from Wildcatville July 12, 2018,
here:
https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2018/07/wilkie-moody-former-mcminnville-college.html
In the summer of 2020 Linfield College became Linfield University.
Wilike Osgood Moody attended Linfield before it was Linfield. He was a
McMinnville College student 1914-1915. It became Linfield College in 1922.
McMinnville College did not have football teams in the 1906 through 1921 seasons.
