Wallace Wade
Football
Inducted: 1964
- Born in Trenton, TN, 1892
- Most successful college coach in state’s history
- All-American lineman at Brown in 1917
- Head coach at University of Alabama from 1923–1930
- Compiled a record of 61-13-3 with four SC titles and three Rose Bowl appearances
- Won 1925, 1926, and 1930 national championships
- Became Duke University head coach in 1931, taking the school to unprecedented heights.
- Compiled record of 85-19-3 from 1931–1941
- Helped the Blue Devils to six SC titles and two Rose Bowl appearances, including the 1942 game that Duke hosted just weeks after Pearl Harbor
- Produced numerous All-Americans at Alabama and Duke
- Served in the army during World War II; awarded Bronze Star
- Returned to coach from 1946 through 1950, but was unable to duplicate prewar success
- Duke did win 1950 SC title; finished with final record at Duke of 110-36-7
- Overall head coaching record of 171-49-10
- Served as SC commissioner in 1950
- Astute football analyst and demanding taskmaster
- Member of the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame
- Died in 1986
