From Hall of Honor press release dated Sept. 8, 1988:

Elwood Pitzer lettered three years in basketball and two years in baseball and also participated in track while in a Wittenberg uniform. He played on Wittenberg's 1933 Buckeye Conference co-championship basketball team. In a 37-34 upset of previously unbeaten Princeton in 1934 Pitzer had high scoring honors with 17 points. Signed by the Cincinnati Reds during his junior year, Pitzer played minor league ball for two years before being traded to the New York Yankees. He also played professional basketball with Columbus in the National Basketball Conference, a forerunner of the NBA. Pitzer retired in 1976 after a 40-year coaching career in the Springfield Public Schools where he coached state champions in basketball and tennis. Among Woody's players at Springfield High School were Bill Goettman and Jack Hawken. Pitzer and his wife, Betty, a 1933 Wittenberg graduate, remain active in senior citizens organizations in the Springfield area. They have two sons.

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