Walter Rufus East was a minor league baseball player active between 1903 and 1912.
11 Facts About Walter East
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Walter East had a big day and his play was publicly commended.
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Walter East is best known for his role fixing a championship football series in 1906 between the Canton Bulldogs and the Massillon Tigers.
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The scandal began when an allegation was made by a Massillon newspaper charging the Bulldogs coach, Blondy Wallace, and Walter East of conspiring to fix a two-game series between the two clubs.
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Walter East was accused soliciting Tiger players Tiny Maxwell and Bob Shiring to fix the game, but he had been released after the two players told Stewart and Wightman about the attempt.
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Walter East then returned to Akron, Ohio accusing the Tiger's coach Sherburn Wightman, of masterminding the scandal.
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Walter East later went on to add that no member of the Bulldogs or their backers, as far as he knew, were connected with the deal.
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Walter East was retained as manager of the Akron Champs.
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Walter East boasted of fixing a college football game, as well as a baseball game in 1905.
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In 1908 Walter East coached the Erie Sailors and the Mansfield Brownies in 1912.
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Walter East died suddenly at a hospital during a business trip to Philadelphia, of uremic poisoning, in 1930.