Career
He was best known for his "Wonder Teams" at New Jersey"s Passaic High School, which lost only one game in the span of a decade and set an American high school record for most consecutive victories. As a basketball innovator who focused on team play and a clean lifestyle in which players were prohibited from drinking or smoking, Blood emphasized the fast break, well-controlled passing and the full-court press over individual performance. Known as the "Professor", he was also a showman who would wrestle the team"s bear cub mascot at halftime and could toss a 16-pound shot put into the air and catch it on the back of his neck.
Passaic High"s 1921-1922 basketball team finished the season with a record of 33–0 and outscored its opponents by a margin of 2,293–612, scoring almost four times as many points as their foes did in each game.
The streak ended on February 6, 1925, after Blood had already left Passaic High, in a game the Hilltoppers lost 39–35 to the Hackensack High School Comets. The game, played at the Hackensack Armory, was said to have been designed to slow down the Passaic High fast break through the placement of sawdust on the playing surface.
Blood coached Saint Benedict"s Preparatory from 1925 to 1950 to a 421-128 record, winning five prep-school state championships during his quarter century at the school. He briefly coached at United States Military Academy (West Point) and Potsdam Normal School (predecessor of State University of New York Potsdam as well as at Clarkson Universityl.