Word: waded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things, however, he believes cannot be taught: "You can't teach a back to be as shifty as you want him or a lineman to be as fierce as you want him." Above all things Teacher Wade values economy of motion: "The best player is the one who does just what is necessary...
...intersectional games with profane locker room descriptions of Sherman's March to the Sea, was the father of Southern football. Other schools began speculating about Dan McGugin's new assistant when for two years (1921-22) Vanderbilt produced undefeated teams. In 1922 both Kentucky and Alabama offered Wade their head coaching jobs. Wallace Wade went to be interviewed in Lexington where there occurred one of the crucial episodes in the history of Southern football. Having practically decided to take the Kentucky job, Wallace Wade waited in an anteroom while the Kentucky athletic council haggled over terms. After...
...Alabama, Coach Wade proceeded for eight years not only to keep his promise to Kentucky (which has yet to win a game from Wallace Wade) but to make his teams equally famed and feared throughout the South. Drilling his men in every play down to the slightest movement of hand or foot, using a metronome to insure proper timing, sometimes rehearsing a play for two months before using it, crouching on the ground with any player to demonstrate exactly what he wants, Coach Wade is today esteemed by his colleagues one of the most patient of football teachers...
Tide & Devils. In 1923, his first year at Alabama, Coach Wade pushed the Crimson Tide to second place in the Southern Conference, which then embraced all major Southern football teams except those in the Southwest Conference (six Texas colleges and the University of Arkansas). The next three years Alabama finished first. Year after the famed Rose Bowl victory with his 1925 team, Coach Wade received a second Rose Bowl bid-this time from Stanford, and this time he tied one of Glenn ("Pop") Warner's greatest machines 7-to-7. Having thus produced two teams which some experts rated...
...feeblest teams in big-time competition was the Blue Devil aggregation of mighty, tobacco-rich Duke, which, having re-entered football in 1920 after a lapse of 25 years, had changed coaches almost every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke for the first time since...