15 Facts About Blondy Wallace

Charles Edgar "Blondy" Wallace was an early professional football player and later convicted criminal during the Prohibition Era.

Blondy Wallace was a 240-pound, former Walter Camp second-team All-American tackle from the University of Pennsylvania.

Blondy Wallace played two years at Peddie Institute, in New Jersey, winning state championships in 1896 and 1897.

Blondy Wallace played on a team that consisted of former players from the football Athletics and the football Philadelphia Phillies of the NFL.

However Blondy would get a second chance winning the series after Glenn "Pop" Warner of the Syracuse Athletic Club suffered a head injury and was replaced by Wallace.

In 1905, Blondy Wallace became the second coach of the Canton Athletic Club.

That year Blondy Wallace, signed an agreement with the Latrobe Athletic Association, led by quarterback John Brallier, to play against Canton in Latrobe.

Blondy Wallace added four former Massillon players to his team in 1906.

Shortly afterward that second game, a Massillon newspaper charged Blondy Wallace with fixing the 1906 championship game.

The Bulldogs and Blondy Wallace denied the charges, maintaining that Massillon only wanted to ruin the club's reputation before their final game against Latrobe.

Blondy Wallace later filed a libel lawsuit against the Massillon paper.

However, Blondy Wallace was in need of money, and the case was reportedly settled out of court.

Blondy Wallace was formally accused of evading payment to the government of $4,196.72 in 1929 and $1,953.52 in 1930.

Blondy Wallace was indicted when books and records from the Egg Harbor Brewery which disclosed, according to the government, income tax evasions in 1929 and 1930.

Blondy Wallace died on March 5,1937, while he was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Atlantic City.