Douglas Clyde "Peahead" Walker was an American football and baseball player, and coach of American football, Canadian football, basketball, and baseball.
19 Facts About Peahead Walker
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At Elon, Peahead Walker was the head basketball coach and the head baseball coach.
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In 1952 Peahead Walker moved to the Canadian Football League to become the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes.
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Peahead Walker played minor league baseball with a number of clubs between 1921 and 1932.
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Peahead Walker managed the Snow Hill Billies of the Coastal Plain League from 1937 to 1939.
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Peahead Walker was born on February 17,1899, in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Peahead Walker was the second of nine children born to Zachary T and Miriam Walker.
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Peahead Walker changed his first name to Douglas while in college, but was known for most his life by his colorful nickname, which he acquired by the time he was a teenager.
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Peahead Walker briefly attended Birmingham College then enrolled at Howard College in Birmingham.
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Peahead Walker did complete college work and received a degree from Elon College while he was working there as a coach, graduating with the class of 1931.
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Peahead Walker wed his first wife, Carolyn, at about this time.
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Peahead Walker played minor league baseball in parts of eleven seasons spanning 1921 to 1932.
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Peahead Walker's coaching career began in 1926 at Atlantic Christian College, today known as Barton College, in Wilson, North Carolina, where he played professional baseball for the Wilson Bugs of the Virginia League.
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Peahead Walker had success with the Atlantic Christian basketball and baseball teams.
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Peahead Walker coached at Wake Forest University from 1937 to 1950.
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Peahead Walker is tied with Jim Grobe as the program's winningest head coach.
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Peahead Walker left Wake in the spring of 1951 over a salary dispute with the college's new president, Harold Tribble.
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Peahead Walker was elected into the Wake Forest Athletics Hall of Fame after his death in 1970.
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Peahead Walker died of a stroke on July 16,1970, in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the age of 71.