Although he only rowed in the second eight at Eton, Leslie Wormwald showed considerable improvement when he went up Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1910 he was in the Magdalen boat which finished the Head of the River and won the Grand at Henley. The following year Magdalen won the Grand for a second time and in 1913, Wormwald was in the winning Oxford crew in the Boat Race. Wormwald won a Military Cross while serving in France in 1918 and died at the Hyde Park Hotel, London while visiting England from his retirement home in Spain.