Wallace Wade

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William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and mentor of football, basketball, and baseball.

He was the head football coach at the University of Alabama from 1923 to 1940, and then again from 1948 to 1950, compiling a career college football record of 171–49–10.

During World War II, Duke's tenure was interrupted by military service.

Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of 1925, 1926, and 1930 have been named national champions, whereas his 1938 Duke team went unmanned on regular season, giving up only points in the 1939 Rose Bowl's final minute.

Wade has won ten Southern Conference football titles, four with Alabama and six with the Duke Blue Devils, as well as six with Alabama.

He coached in five Rose Bowls, including the 1942 game, which was moved from Pasadena, California, to Durham, North Carolina, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Wade served as the head basketball and baseball coach at Vanderbilt University for two seasons (1921–1923), tying a record of 24–16 while he was an assistant football coach.

He was also the head baseball coach at Vanderbilt from 1922 to 1923 and 1927 to 1927, while at Alabama, amassing a record of 87–482.

Wade played football at Brown University.

Wade spent time as the Southern Conference commissioner from 1951 to 1960 after retiring from coaching.

In 1955, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach.

In 1967, Duke's football stadium was renamed in his honor as Wallace Wade Stadium.

Later life and honors

Wade, from 1951 to 1960, was the Southern Conference commissioner. In 1955, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. In 1967, Duke's football stadium was renamed Wallace Wade Stadium in honor of his nickname. Wade died in 1986 in Durham at the age of 94 and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham.

Wade's bronze statue of Wade was unveiled outside the University of Alabama's Bryant–Denny Stadium, alongside Frank Thomas, Bear Bryant, Gene Stallings, and now Nick Saban, the other head coaches who led Alabama to national championships.

Wade's coaching tree includes:

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Early life and playing career

Wade was born in Trenton, Tennessee, and he was born there. He first played football at Peabody High School in Trenton under Tuck Faucett. Wade was a student at the Morgan Park Academy in Chicago. In 1913, he began playing football at Brown University. Wade was a guard on the Brown football team, which was to the 1916 Rose Bowl. Fritz Pollard, one of Brown's teammates, went on to become the first African American coach in the National Football League.

Coaching career

W. S. Fitzgerald recruited him as head coach at Tullahoma, Tennessee, after spending time in the Army and rising to the rank of cavalry captain. He went 15-2 in football, winning a state prep-school championship in 1920. Lynn Bomar and "Hek" Wakefield, two young consensus All-Americans, were among his players. He has worked with Fitzgerald-Clarke's basketball teams.'

Wade was hired as an assistant and line coach at Vanderbilt University in 1921 by Dan McGugin. He also coached basketball. Vanderbilt won the conference for the first time while he was there, with Wade winning 15–0-2.

Georgia, the defending Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), was undefeated, not allowing a score through its robust line all year. Vanderbilt was undefeated, and so the game was expected to determine the conference champion. According to The New York Times, it was described as a "significant clash." "Stegeman has a strong crew, and with all of the regulars in the game, the team has a chance to go undefeated, unless it be Vanderbilt." In part, the Bulldogs were expected to win this meeting of the two universities, the first since 1912, because the Bulldogs may have outplayed Harvard and defeated Auburn earlier this season.

Lynn Bomar starred in the linebacker role. "Georgia would have smuggled Vanderbilt to ashes, but for Lynn Bomar," a Nashville Tennessean sportswriter Blinkey Horn wrote. "Lynn Bomar was the outstanding performer of the game," his performance was reiterated. He made two-thirds of the tackles in the first half. It was also stated that he stopped five Georgia touchdowns on the day. Rupert Smith scored on an onside punt, and the Commodores remained down 7–0 until late in the fourth quarter. He made the extra point as well, and the game ended in a tie. Both teams won the remainder of their games as predicted and became co-champions.

Vanderbilt's defense stood undefeated in 1922, with the country's best defense measured by points against per game. In the inaugural game at Dudley Field featuring a goal line stand, Vanderbilt held Michigan to a scoreless tie. According to one account, "Thousands of cheering Vanderbilt supporters fuelled center Alf Sharpe's ascension, tackle Tex Morrow, and finally end Lynn Bomar, who stopped Michigan cold in four attempts."

Wade was hired as the head coach at the University of Alabama in 1923 after serving as an assistant for Vanderbilt. Wade's team has won three national championships in the Rose Bowl's history over the next seven years since appearing in the Rose Bowl in 1925, 1926, and 1930. The Athletic Council ruled on the selection: the following information was released:

Alabama was undefeated in Southern Conference play until the Florida Gators' 16–6 rain on Thanksgiving Day. All of Florida's points were scored by Edgar C. Jones. Wade's former school Vanderbilt will miss the conference despite the loss. The 1924 team captured the Southern Conference's first title, but only to Center.

The 1925 squad was undefeated and became the first Southern team to win a Rose Bowl. Alabama defeated Washington 20 to 19, 1926 Rose Bowl, which has also been referred to as "the game that changed the south." The 1926 squad went undefeated, tying with Pop Warner's Stanford team in the 1927 Rose Bowl.

Alabama's 13–0 loss to Georgia Tech snapped a 24-game streak. Alabama defeated Tech 188–144 in the game, but Tech scored a touchdown in the second quarter and scored another after recovering a fumble at the Alabama 1 with two minutes remaining. It was the first time Georgia Tech had scored points on Alabama since 1922. Alabama came from behind in the fourth to beat Mississippi State 13-7, but limped home with three consecutive losses to end the year at 5–4–1.

Wade was playing poorly in 1928 and 1929, with just a few points to Robert Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers. Wade resigned on April 30, with the caveat that he will coach next season. Before the Tennessee game, which Alabama won 18–6, John Suther recalled the sensation. "Coach Wade was boiling mad." Well, he was like a blood-thirsty drill sergeant, and those who criticized him made him more ardent. We begged him to put an end to the yelps who were ruining his life.'

Wade's last Alabama squad defeated Washington State in the Rose Bowl in a 22–0 win over the season and finished a undefeated (10-0) season. During the pre-AP poll period, many groups had voted the team as the best in the country, and the University of Alabama has officially claimed the 1930 national championship.

Wade stunned college football by heading to Duke University, which had less of a football tradition than Alabama, after his third national championship. Although Wade refused to answer questions about his decision to leave Alabama for Duke until later in his life, he eventually told a sports scholar that his sports and athletics beliefs aligned with Duke's school philosophy, and that being in a private university would give him more autonomy. Ellis Hagler and Herschel Caldwell were with him to Duke, along with his assistants. Wade's Duke teams won 110 games; 36 losses; and 7 tied.

The 1932 team beat Tennessee and welcomed Fred Crawford, North Carolina's first All-American. The 1933 team captured the school's first Southern Conference title, defeating Neyland's Volunteers 10–2. "He gave the best display of tackle play I've ever seen," Neyland said of Crawford.

Both Clyde Berryman and James Howell named Duke as a retroactive national champion for 1936.

Wade's most memorable season at Duke came in 1938, when his "Iron Dukes" went uncored until winning the 1939 Rose Bowl. The "Iron Dukes" lost 7-3 to the USC Trojans in Duke's first Rose Bowl appearance. The 1939 team added Dutch Stanley to the coaching staff, replacing Carl Voyles as head coach, and took home another SoCon championship.

The 1942 Rose Bowl was lost to Oregon State by Wade's Blue Devils. The game was held at Duke Stadium, the Blue Devils' home stadium in Durham, North Carolina, because the event's officials were hesitant to hold the game in California following the recent attack on Pearl Harbor.

After the 1942 Rose Bowl loss, Wade served as head football coach from 1942 to 1945, and the legendary Eddie Cameron was on his staff.

Wade was hired as a United States Army instructor to direct a Western All-Army football team that competed against National Football League teams before the 1942 NFL season to raise money for the Army Emergency Relief Fund. Wade's crew won the Chicago Cardinals and Detroit Lions, but lost to the Washington Redskins, Green Bay Packers, and New York Giants, all playing in five games.

The fund was raised $241,392.29 by the games, as well as Neyland's Eastern All-Army team.

Wade joined the Blue Devils in 1946 and continued as a coach until his retirement in 1950.

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