Wallace Wade, the former Duke and Alabama...
Wallace Wade, the former Duke and Alabama football coach who participated in six Rose Bowl games--including the 1942 game played in Durham, N.C.--died at Duke Medical Center of pneumonia complications. He was 94.
Wade coached at Alabama from 1923-1930, compiling a 61-13-1 record. In his third year, Alabama defeated Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl game and won the school’s first national championship.
Wade then moved on to Duke, where he coached the Blue Devils from 1930-41 and again from 1946-50 for a combined record of 110-36-7.
His 1939 Duke team, which was unbeaten, untied and unscored upon, lost to USC, 7-3, in the Rose Bowl.
His 1941 Duke team lost to Oregon State, 20-16, in the Rose Bowl game that was moved to Durham because federal officials feared a Japanese attack on the West Coast.
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