Wildcard1 Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 Good luck to both teams tonight! Praying for an injury free game! Have fun, stay safe, and represent! Region 7 slobber knockers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackGoldTsunami Posted August 31, 2018 Report Share Posted August 31, 2018 48 minutes ago, UCStrong77 said: I’m curious how long y’all have been using the Alabama slogan (THIS IS HOW LONG) Wallace Wade From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the American college football coach. For the football stadium at Duke University, see Wallace Wade Stadium. Wallace Wade Sport(s) Football, basketball, baseball Biographical details Born June 15, 1892Trenton, Tennessee Died October 7, 1986 (aged 94)Durham, North Carolina Playing career Football 1914–1916 Brown Position(s) Guard Coaching career (HC unless noted) Football 1918–1920 Fitzgerald & Clarke School (TN) 1921–1922 Vanderbilt (assistant) 1923–1930 Alabama 1931–1941 Duke 1946–1950 Duke Basketball 1921–1923 Vanderbilt Baseball 1922–1923 Vanderbilt 1924–1927 Alabama Administrative career (AD unless noted) 1923–1930 Alabama 1951–1960 SoCon (commissioner) Head coaching record Overall 171–49–10 (football) 24–16 (basketball) 87–45–2 (baseball) Bowls 2–2–1 Accomplishments and honors Championships 3 National (1925–1926, 1930) 10 SoCon (1924–1926, 1930, 1933, 1935–1936, 1938–1939, 1941) College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1955 (profile) William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama from 1923 to 1930 and at Duke University from 1931 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1950, compiling a career college football record of 171–49–10. His tenure at Duke was interrupted by military service during World War II. Wade's Alabama Crimson Tide football teams of 1925, 1926, and 1930 have been recognized as national champions, while his 1938 Duke team had an unscored upon regular season, giving up its only points in the final minute of the 1939 Rose Bowl. Wade won a total of ten Southern Conference football titles, four with Alabama and six with the Duke Blue Devils. He 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. Wade served as the head basketball and baseball coach at Vanderbilt University for two seasons (1921–1923), tallying a mark of 24–16, while he was an assistant football coach there. He was also the head baseball coach at Vanderbilt from 1922 to 1923 and at Alabama from 1924 to 1927, amassing a career college baseball record of 87–45–2. Wade played football at Brown University. After retiring from coaching, Wade served as the commissioner of the Southern Conference from 1951 to 1960. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1955. Duke's football stadium was renamed in his honor as Wallace Wade Stadium in 1967. Contents 1 Early life and playing career 2 Coaching career 2.1 Fitzgerald & Clarke 2.2 Vanderbilt University 2.2.1 1921 2.2.2 1922 2.3 University of Alabama 2.3.1 1923–1926 2.3.2 1927–1930 2.4 Duke University 2.4.1 1931–1937 2.4.2 1938–1941 2.4.3 World War 2 2.4.4 1946–1950 3 Later life and honors 3.1 Coaching tree 4 Head coaching record 4.1 Football 4.2 Basketball 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links Early life and playing career Wade was born in Trenton, Tennessee. He first played football under Tuck Faucett at Peabody High School in Trenton. Wade also attended Chicago's Morgan Park Academy.[1] He went on in 1913 to play football at Brown University.[2] Wade played guard on the Brown football team, which went to the 1916 Rose Bowl. One of his teammates at Brown was Fritz Pollard, who went on to become the first African American coach in the National Football League. Coaching career Fitzgerald & Clarke Fitzgerald and Clarke 1920 basketball team. Wade is in back. After spending time in the Army and rising to the rank of cavalry captain, W. S. Fitzgerald hired him as head coach at the Fitzgerald and Clarke Military School in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He went 15–2 in football,[1] winning a state prep-school championship in 1920.[3] Among his players were future consensus All-Americans Lynn Bomar and "Hek" Wakefield. He also posted successful basketball teams at Fitzgerald–Clarke.[4] ' Vanderbilt University In 1921 Wade was hired as an assistant and line coach at Vanderbilt University under Dan McGugin. He also coached basketball.[n 1] Vanderbilt posted an undefeated 15–0–2 with Wade, and shared conference titles both years he was there. 1921 Wade at Vanderbilt, 1921 Defending Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) champion Georgia was undefeated, having not allowed a score through its powerful line all year.[n 2]Vanderbilt too was undefeated, and so the game was figured to decide the conference champion. It was described by The New York Times as an "important clash."[6] Sporting editor for the Birmingham News "Zipp" Newman had written weeks ago, "Stegeman has a powerful team and with all the regulars in the game, the team has a chance of going through the season undefeated unless it be Vanderbilt that stops her."[7] The Bulldogs were the favorite to win this meeting of the two schools, first since 1912, in part because the Bulldogs may have outplayed Harvard and defeated Auburn earlier in the season.[8] Lynn Bomar starred at the linebacker position. "Georgia would have trampled Vanderbilt to atoms but for Lynn Bomar", observed Nashville Tennessean sportswriter Blinkey Horn. His play was again noted, "Lynn Bomar was the stellar performer of the game. In the first-half he made two-thirds of the tackles."[9] It is also said he stopped five Georgia touchdowns that day.[10] The Commodores remained down 7–0 until late into the fourth quarter when Rupert Smith scored on an onside punt. He made the extra point as well and the game ended a tie. Both teams won the rest of their games as expected and remained co-champions. 1922 In 1922, Vanderbilt again went undefeated and its defense ranked top in the nation as measured by points against per game.[11] Vanderbilt held Michigan to a scoreless tie in the inaugural game at the new Dudley Field, including a goal line stand. One account reads "Thousands of cheering Vanderbilt fans inspired the surge of center Alf Sharpe, guard Gus Morrow, tackle Tex Bradford, and end Lynn Bomar, who stopped Michigan cold in four attempts."[12] University of Alabama After working as an assistant for Vanderbilt, Wade was hired as the head coach at the University of Alabama in 1923. Over the next seven years, Wade's team won three national championships after appearing in the Rose Bowl in 1925, 1926, and 1930. On the hiring, the Athletic Council stated: Mr. Wade's experience as a football coach has been brilliant and successful. He comes to us with the highest recommendation not only from Vanderbilt and Brown authorities, but also from many of the leading football experts of the South and indeed the entire country. If we rely on expert testimony, the University is fortunate securing a man of Mr. Wade's character, experience, and achievements."[13] 1923–1926 In 1923, Alabama was undefeated in Southern Conference play until upset by the Florida Gators 16–6 in the rain on Thanksgiving Day. Edgar C. Jones scored all of Florida's points. The loss would give Wade's former school Vanderbilt the conference. The 1924 team won the school's first Southern Conference title, suffering its only loss to Centre. The 1925 team went undefeated and was the first Southern team to win a Rose Bowl. The 1926 Rose Bowl, which Alabama won over Washington 20 to 19, is thus commonly referred to as "the game that changed the south."[14] The 1926 team also went undefeated, tying with Pop Warner's Stanford team in the 1927 Rose Bowl. 1927–1930 Alabama's 13–0 loss to Georgia Tech snapped a 24-game unbeaten streak. Alabama outgained 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 to go. 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 straight losses to end the year at 5–4–1. Wade was under fire after lackluster seasons in 1928 and 1929, which included narrow losses to Robert Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers. Wade submitted his resignation on April 30, with the caveat that he coach next season. John Suther described the feeling before the Tennessee game that year, which Alabama won 18–6. "Coach Wade was boiling mad. He was like a blood-thirsty drill sergeant anyway, and those critics made him more fiery ... He challenged us to help him shut up the loudmouths that were making his life miserable."[15] Wade's last Alabama squad outscored their opponents 271–13 over the course of the season and completed a perfect (10-0) campaign with a 24–0 victory over Washington State in the Rose Bowl. The team was voted #1 by several organizations during the pre-AP poll era, and the University of Alabama officially claims the 1930 national championship. Duke University Wade at Duke Following his third national championship, Wade shocked the college football world by moving to Duke University, which had less of a football tradition than Alabama. Though Wade refused to answer questions regarding his decision to leave Alabama for Duke until late in his life, he eventually told a sports historian he believed his philosophy regarding sports and athletics fit perfectly with the philosophy of the Duke administration and that he felt being at a private institution would allow him greater freedom. He brought assistants Ellis Hagler and Herschel Caldwell with him to Duke. In 16 seasons, Wade's Duke teams compiled a record of 110 wins; 36 losses; and 7 ties. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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