William Wallace Wade was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator.
19 Facts About Wallace Wade
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Wallace Wade won a total of ten Southern Conference football titles, four with Alabama and six with the Duke Blue Devils.
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Wallace Wade coached in five Rose Bowls including the 1942 game, which was relocated from Pasadena, California to Durham, North Carolina after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Wallace Wade was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1955.
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Wallace Wade first played football under Tuck Faucett at Peabody High School in Trenton.
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Wallace Wade went on in 1913 to play football at Brown University.
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Wallace Wade played guard on the Brown football team, which went to the 1916 Rose Bowl.
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In 1921 Wallace Wade was hired as an assistant and line coach at Vanderbilt University under Dan McGugin.
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Wallace Wade made the extra point as well and the game ended a tie.
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Wallace Wade comes to us with the highest recommendation not only from Vanderbilt and Brown authorities, but from many of the leading football experts of the South and indeed the entire country.
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Wallace Wade was under fire after lackluster seasons in 1928 and 1929, which included narrow losses to Robert Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers.
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Wallace Wade was like a blood-thirsty drill sergeant anyway, and those critics made him more fiery.
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Wallace Wade challenged us to help him shut up the loudmouths that were making his life miserable.
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Wallace Wade brought assistants Ellis Hagler and Herschel Caldwell with him to Duke.
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Wallace Wade entered military service after the 1942 Rose Bowl loss and the Eddie Cameron filled in for him as head football coach from 1942 to 1945.
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Wallace Wade returned to coach the Blue Devils in 1946 and continued until his retirement in 1950.
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From 1951 to 1960 Wallace Wade was the commissioner of the Southern Conference.
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Wallace Wade was inducted College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.
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Wallace Wade died in 1986 in Durham at the age of 94 and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham.