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{{Short description|American football player and coach (1892–1986)}}
{{About|the American college football coach|the football stadium at Duke University|Wallace Wade Stadium}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Wallace Wade
| image = Wallace Wade (1930).png
| alt = 
| caption = Wade circa 1930
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|6|15}}
| birth_place = [[Trenton, Tennessee]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|10|6|1892|6|15}}
| death_place = [[Durham, North Carolina]], U.S.
| alma_mater = 
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1914–1916
| player_team2 = [[Brown Bears football|Brown]]
| player_positions = [[Guard (gridiron football)|Guard]]
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1918–1920
| coach_team2 = Fitzgerald & Clarke School (TN)
| coach_years3 = 1921–1922
| coach_team3 = [[Vanderbilt Commodores football|Vanderbilt]] (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1923–1930
| coach_team4 = [[Alabama Crimson Tide football|Alabama]]
| coach_years5 = 1931–1941
| coach_team5 = [[Duke Blue Devils football|Duke]]
| coach_years6 = 1946–1950
| coach_team6 = Duke
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1918–1921
| coach_team8 = Fitzgerald & Clarke School (TN)
| coach_years9 = 1921–1923
| coach_team9 = [[Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball|Vanderbilt]]
| coach_sport10 = Baseball
| coach_years11 = 1922–1923
| coach_team11 = [[Vanderbilt Commodores baseball|Vanderbilt]]
| coach_years12 = 1924–1927
| coach_team12 = [[Alabama Crimson Tide baseball|Alabama]]
| admin_years1 = 1923–1930
| admin_team1 = [[Alabama Crimson Tide|Alabama]]
| admin_years2 = 1951–1960
| admin_team2 = [[Southern Conference|SoCon]] (commissioner)
| overall_record = 171–49–10 (college football)<br>24–16 (college basketball)<br>87–45–2 (college baseball)
| bowl_record = 2–2–1
| tournament_record = 
| championships = 3 [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|National]] (1925–1926, 1930)<br> 10 [[Southern Conference|SoCon]] (1924–1926, 1930, 1933, 1935–1936, 1938–1939, 1941)
| awards = 
| coaching_records = 
| CFBHOF_year = 1955
| CFBHOF_id = 1402
}}
'''William Wallace Wade''' (June 15, 1892 – October 6, 1986) was an [[American football]] player and coach of football, [[basketball]], and [[baseball]], and college athletics administrator.  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 [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|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 football|Duke Blue Devils]].  He coached in five [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowls]] including the [[1942 Rose Bowl|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.

==Early life and playing career==
Wade was born in [[Trenton, Tennessee]].  He first played football under Tuck Faucett at [[Peabody High School (Tennessee)|Peabody High School]] in Trenton. Wade also attended Chicago's [[Morgan Park Academy]].<ref name=pope>{{Cite book|title = Football's Greatest Coaches|url=https://archive.org/stream/fottballsgreates00pope#page/286/mode/2up/search/fitzgerald|last = Pope|first = Edwin|publisher = Tupper and Love|year = 1956|pages = 187; 282}}</ref> He went on in 1913 to play football at [[Brown University]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2402465/the_houston_post/|title=Former Brown Star To Help Coach Vanderbilt|work=The Houston Post|date=February 3, 1921|page=12|access-date=May 13, 2015|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}} {{Open access}}</ref>   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===
[[File:FitzgeraldClarke1920.jpg|thumb|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,<ref name=pope/> winning a state prep-school championship in 1920.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4033636/the_tennessean/|title=Fitz and Clarke Beats Bryson Team 21-13|page=14|work=The Tennessean|access-date=January 13, 2016|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=November 21, 1920}} {{Open access}}</ref> Among his players were future consensus All-Americans [[Lynn Bomar]] and [[Hek Wakefield|"Hek" Wakefield]]. He also posted successful basketball teams at Fitzgerald–Clarke.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lwpolive.manchestertimes.com/olive/ode/manchester/LandingPage/LandingPage.aspx?href=TE1ULzIwMDAvMDEvMDE.&pageno=NzI.&entity=QXIwNzIwMA..&view=ZW50aXR5|access-date=January 24, 2015|author=Bob Hammers|title=Wade Led Military School|work=Tullahoma News|date=June 7, 1974}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}</ref>  '

===Vanderbilt===
In [[1921 Vanderbilt Commodores football team|1921]] Wade was hired as an assistant and [[Lineman (American football)|line]] coach at [[Vanderbilt University]] under [[Dan McGugin]].  He also coached basketball.{{refn|group=n|Soon after, on March 14, 1922, Fitzgerald & Clarke burned to the ground and was never rebuilt.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.thsclassof1974.com/tullahomaarticles/1902/city.htm|access-date=January 24, 2015|title=City Closes Fitzgerald-Clarke, Builds Tullahoma High School|journal=Sesquicentennial Issue of the Tullahoma News and Guardian}}</ref>}}  Vanderbilt posted an undefeated 15–0–2 with Wade, and shared conference titles both years he was there.

====1921====
[[File:Wallace Wade.jpg|thumb|Wade at Vanderbilt, 1921]]
Defending [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association]] (SIAA) champion [[1921 Georgia Bulldogs football team|Georgia]] was undefeated, having not allowed a score through its powerful line all year.{{refn|group=n|Its line was composed of four [[College Football All-Southern Team|All-Southern]]s: [[Joe Bennett (American football)|Joe Bennett]], [[Bum Day]], [[Owen Reynolds]], and [[Hugh Whelchel|Puss Whelchel]]. [[Jim Taylor (American football tackle)|Jim Taylor]] was a substitute.}} [[1921 Vanderbilt Commodores football team|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."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/11/12/109825999.pdf|title=Many Good Games On Schedule Today|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 12, 1921}}</ref> Sporting editor for the ''[[Birmingham News]]'' [[Zipp Newman|"Zipp" Newman]] had written weeks ago, "[[Herman Stegeman|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."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=M4CT4BUCMTM3NjAxODQ0OS43NDU2NzM6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=5&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=5&p_docnum=10&p_docref=v2:1126A744DB722B38@EANX-119AC83476544F58@2422994-119AC834954603B0@2-119AC8351385D938@Georgia%20Heeds%20Opportunity%27s%20Knock%20While%20Auburn%20Turns%20Deaf%20Ear%20Says%20Zipp%20Newman|title= Georgia Heeds Opportunity's Knock While Auburn Turns Deaf Ear Says Zipp Newman|newspaper=The Columbus Enquirer Sun|author=Zipp Newman|author-link=Zipp Newman|date=October 31, 1921}}</ref> The Bulldogs were the favorite to win this meeting of the two schools, first since [[1912 Vanderbilt Commodores football team|1912]], in part because the Bulldogs may have outplayed [[Harvard Crimson football|Harvard]] and defeated [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn]] earlier in the season.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=R49B4CRDMTM3NTcwMDQ0MC43MjI2MjQ6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=26&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=26&p_docnum=47&p_docref=v2:11B0124EA8AEC7F0@EANX-11BF024C24A3B708@2423005-11BF024C4946B9B0@4-11BF024CC8A36530@Gridiron+Gossip|title=Gridiron Gossip|newspaper=Montgomery Advertiser|date=November 11, 1921}}</ref>

Lynn Bomar starred at the [[linebacker]] position. "Georgia would have trampled Vanderbilt to [[atom]]s 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."<ref name="Draw">{{cite news|url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=R49B4CRDMTM3NTcwMDQ0MC43MjI2MjQ6MToxMzoxMzIuMTk4LjUwLjEz&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=26&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=26&p_docnum=51&p_docref=v2:1126A744DB722B38@EANX-119AC547804EEB20@2423007-119AC547BB53F530@10-119AC548E0384E68@Georgia+and+Vandy+Battle+to+a+Draw+Tennesseeans+Get+Touchdown+in+Final+Period+Final+Score+7-7+Jim+Tom+Reynolds|title=Georgia and Vandy Battle to a Draw|newspaper=The Columbus Enquirer|date=November 13, 1921}}</ref> It is also said he stopped five Georgia [[touchdown]]s that day.<ref name="Traughber">Traughber, William L. [https://books.google.com/books?id=V5bBm8HW328C&dq=1921%20vanderbilt%20%20football&pg=PP1 Vanderbilt Football: Tales of Commodore Gridiron History]. Charleston, South Carolina: History, 2011.</ref> The Commodores remained down 7&ndash;0 until late into the fourth quarter when [[Rupert Smith (American football)|Rupert Smith]] scored on an [[onside kick|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 Commodores football team|1922]], Vanderbilt again went undefeated and its defense ranked top in the nation as measured by points against per game.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/1922-standings.html|title=1922 standings}}</ref> Vanderbilt held [[1922 Michigan Wolverines football team|Michigan]] to a [[1922 Michigan vs. Vanderbilt football game|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."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grCfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22lynn+bomar%22+|title=Football: a college history|year=1987|author=Tom Perrin|page=113|isbn=9780899502946}}</ref>

===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 [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championships]]  after appearing in the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]] in 1925, 1926, and 1930. On the hiring, the Athletic Council stated:<blockquote>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."<ref>{{cite news |title=William Wallace Wade of Vandy is appointed coach of all athletics at state university |publisher=NewsBank: America's Historical Newspapers |newspaper=The Montgomery Advertiser |date=December 17, 1922 |page=5}}</ref></blockquote>

====1923&ndash;1926====
In [[1923 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|1923]], Alabama was undefeated in [[Southern Conference]] play until upset by the [[1923 Florida Gators football team|Florida Gators]] 16&ndash;6 in the rain on [[Thanksgiving Day]]. [[Edgar C. Jones]] scored all of Florida's points. The loss would give Wade's former school [[1923 Vanderbilt Commodores football team|Vanderbilt]] the conference. The [[1924 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|1924 team]] won the school's first Southern Conference title, suffering its only loss to [[1924 Centre Praying Colonels football team|Centre]].

The [[1925 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|1925 team]] went undefeated and was the first [[Southern United States|Southern]] team to win a [[Rose Bowl game|Rose Bowl]]. The [[1926 Rose Bowl]], which Alabama won over [[Washington Huskies football|Washington]] 20 to 19, is thus commonly referred to as "the game that changed the south."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.cptr.ua.edu/news/roses.htm| title=The Football Game That Changed the South| publisher=The University of Alabama| access-date=October 6, 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/2010/http://www.cptr.ua.edu/news/roses.htm| archive-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> The [[1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|1926 team]] also went undefeated, tying with [[Pop Warner]]'s [[1926 Stanford football team|Stanford]] team in the [[1927 Rose Bowl]].

====1927&ndash;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 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|1928]] and [[1929 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|1929]], which included narrow losses to [[Robert Neyland]]'s [[Tennessee Volunteers football|Tennessee Volunteers]].  Wade submitted his resignation on April 30, with the caveat that he coach [[1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|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."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102308aad.html|title=Alabama-Tennessee: A Southern Tradition|date=October 23, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212094248/http://www.rolltide.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102308aad.html|archive-date=February 12, 2015}}</ref>

Wade's last Alabama squad outscored their opponents 271&ndash;13 over the course of the season and completed a perfect (10-0) campaign with a 24&ndash;0 victory over [[1930 Washington State Cougars football team|Washington State]] in the [[1931 Rose Bowl|Rose Bowl]]. The team was voted #1 by several organizations during the pre-[[AP poll]] era, and the University of Alabama/Notre Dame split the national championship according to the NCAA/NCAA.com  [[Legit national championship|national championship]].

===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.

====1931&ndash;1937====
The 1932 team upset [[1932 Tennessee Volunteers football team|Tennessee]] and featured [[North Carolina]]'s first All-American in [[Fred Crawford (American football)|Fred Crawford]]. The [[1933 Duke Blue Devils football team|1933 team]] won the school's first Southern Conference title, and upset Neyland's Volunteers 10&ndash;2. It caused Neyland to say of Crawford: "He gave the finest exhibition of tackle play I have ever seen."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19331025&id=MOtPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=31QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2728,4542251|title=Scouts Line Up Stars On Grid Fronts|date=October 25, 1933|work=The Evening Independent}}</ref>

Both [[Berryman QPRS|Clyde Berryman]] and James Howell named [[1936 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]] as a retroactive [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national champion]] for 1936.<ref name="ncaabook">{{cite book | url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2016/fbs.pdf  | title=2016 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision Records | publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association | date=August 2016 | location=Indianapolis| access-date=February 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1936.htm|title=1936 NCAA Division IA Football Power Ratings|website=jhowell.net|access-date=February 22, 2017}}</ref>

====1938&ndash;1941====
Wade's most notable season at Duke was in 1938, when his "Iron Dukes" went unscored upon until reaching the [[1939 Rose Bowl]]. In that game, Duke's first Rose Bowl appearance, the "Iron Dukes"  lost 7–3 to the [[1938 USC Trojans football team|USC Trojans]]. The [[1939 Duke Blue Devils football team|1939 team]] added [[Dutch Stanley]] to the coaching staff, replacing Carl Voyles as end coach, and won another SoCon championship.

[[File:Bob Barnett and Wallace Wade, Chanticleer 1942 page 325.jpg|thumb|right|Wade (right) with captain Bob Barnett, 1941]]

Wade's Blue Devils lost the [[1942 Rose Bowl]] to [[Oregon State Beavers football|Oregon State]]. The game was held at [[Duke Stadium]], the Blue Devils' home stadium in [[Durham, North Carolina]], because the recent [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] made the event's organizers skittish of hosting the game in [[California]].{{cn|date=January 2023}}

====World War II====
Wade entered military service after the 1942 Rose Bowl loss and [[Eddie Cameron]] filled in for him as head football coach from 1942 to 1945.

While in the [[United States Army]], Wade was hired to coach a [[List of World War II military service football teams|Western All-Army]] football team that played against [[National Football League]] teams before the [[1942 NFL season]] to raise money for the [[Army Emergency Relief]] fund.<ref>{{cite news|last=Turkin|first=Hy|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32136662/army_gridders_aim_at_million_goal/|title=Army Gridders Aim At Million $ Goal|newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=July 16, 1942|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref> Playing in five games, Wade's team defeated the [[1942 Chicago Cardinals season|Chicago Cardinals]] and [[1942 Detroit Lions season|Detroit Lions]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32137271/|title=All-Army Whips Cardinals, 16-10|agency=[[Associated Press|AP]]|newspaper=[[Hilo Tribune-Herald]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 7, 1942|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32167217/|title=Western All-Army Eleven Smashes Detroit Lions|agency=[[Associated Press|AP]]|newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 10, 1942|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref> but lost to the [[1942 Washington Redskins season|Washington Redskins]], [[1942 Green Bay Packers season|Green Bay Packers]], and [[1942 New York Giants season|New York Giants]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32136978/|title=Western All-Army Bows to Redskins|agency=[[United Press|UP]]|newspaper=[[Albany Democrat-Herald]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=August 31, 1942|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32200471/|title=Packers Trounce Army, 36-21; Cardinals Defeat Rams, 7-0; Eagles Trim Steelers, 24-14|agency=[[Associated Press|AP]]|newspaper=[[The Cincinnati Enquirer]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 14, 1942|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32200505/|title=Kimbrough Stopped; Stars Lose, 10-7|newspaper=[[The Eugene Guard]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=September 20, 1942|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref>

Along with Neyland's Eastern All-Army team, the games raised $241,392.29 for the fund.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32234903/army_gets_grid_check/|title=Army Gets Grid Check|agency=[[Associated Press|AP]]|newspaper=[[Arizona Republic]]|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|date=November 8, 1942|access-date=June 4, 2019}}</ref>

====1946&ndash;1950====
Wade returned to coach the Blue Devils in 1946 and continued until his retirement in 1950.

==Later life and honors==
From 1951 to 1960 Wade was the commissioner of the [[Southern Conference]].  He was inducted [[College Football Hall of Fame]] in 1955.  In 1967, Duke's football stadium was renamed [[Wallace Wade Stadium]] in his honor. Wade died in 1986 in Durham at the age of 94 and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Durham.

In 2006, a bronze statue of Wade was erected outside of the [[University of Alabama]]'s [[Bryant–Denny Stadium]] alongside the statues of [[Frank Thomas (American football)|Frank Thomas]], [[Bear Bryant]], [[Gene Stallings]], and now [[Nick Saban]], the other head coaches who led Alabama to national championships.

Duke's student section is named the "Wade Wackos" in Wade's honor;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1994/10/23/at-duke-they-go-wacko-over-6-0/|title=At Duke, They Go Wacko Over 6-0|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=October 5, 1994}}</ref> the term is also sometimes used to refer to Duke football fans in general.

===Coaching tree===
Wade's [[coaching tree]] includes:
#[[Paul Burnum]]
#[[Johnny Cain]]: played for Alabama (1930&ndash;1931), head coach for [[Louisiana–Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns football|Louisiana–Lafayette]]. (1937&ndash;1941; 1946).
#[[Herschel Caldwell]]: played for Alabama (1925&ndash;1926), assistant for Duke (1930&ndash;1971)
#[[Eddie Cameron]], assistant for Duke (1930&ndash;1941), head coach for Duke (1942&ndash;1945).
#[[Al Clemens]]
#[[Russ Cohen]], assistant for Alabama (1923&ndash;1926), head coach for [[LSU Tigers football|LSU]] (1928&ndash;1931), [[Cincinnati Bearcats football|Cincinnati]] (1935&ndash;1937).
#[[Albert Elmore]]: played for Alabama (1929&ndash;1930), head coach for [[Troy Trojans football|Troy]] (1931&ndash;1937).
#[[Ellis Hagler]]: played for Alabama (1926&ndash;1928), assistant for Duke (1930&ndash;1957)
#[[Jimmy R. Haygood]]
#[[Orville Hewitt]]
#[[Frank Howard (American football)|Frank Howard]]: played for Alabama (1928&ndash;1930), head coach for [[Clemson Tigers football|Clemson]] (1940&ndash;1969)
#[[Allison Hubert|Pooley Hubert]]: played for Alabama (1922&ndash;1925), head coach for [[Southern Miss Golden Eagles football|Southern Miss]] (1931&ndash;1936), [[VMI Keydets football|VMI]] (1937&ndash;1946).
#[[Garland Morrow]]: played for Vanderbilt (1922), head coach for [[Cumberland Bulldogs football|Cumberland]] (1932&ndash;1935).
#[[Jess Neely]]: played for Vanderbilt (1921&ndash;1922), assistant for Alabama (1928&ndash;1930), head coach for Clemson (1931&ndash;1939), [[Rice Owls football|Rice]] (1940&ndash;1966).
#[[Preston Vaughn Overall|Putty Overall]]: played for Vanderbilt (1921), head coach for [[Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football|Tennessee Tech]] (1923&ndash;1946).
#[[Clyde Propst]]: played for Alabama (1922&ndash;1924), assistant for Alabama (1925&ndash;1932), head coach for [[Samford Bulldogs football|Howard]] (1934), [[Rhodes Lynx football|Rhodes]] (1935&ndash;1937).
#[[Tommy Prothro]]: played for Duke (1938&ndash;1941), head coach for [[Oregon State Beavers football|Oregon State]] (1955&ndash;1964), [[UCLA Bruins football|UCLA]] (1965&ndash;1970), [[Los Angeles Rams]] (1971–1972), and [[San Diego Chargers]] (1974–1978).
#[[Dutch Stanley]], assistant for Duke (1939&ndash;1946)
#[[William T. Van de Graaff]]: assistant for Alabama (1921&ndash;1926), head coach for [[Colorado College Tigers football|Colorado College]] (1926&ndash;1939).
#[[Carl Voyles]]: assistant coach for Illinois (1925–1930), ends coach for Duke (1931–1938), head coach for William & Mary (1939–1943), head coach for Auburn (1944–1947), head coach for Brooklyn Dodgers (1948), head coach for Hamilton Tiger Cats (1950–1955).
#[[Hek Wakefield]]: played for Vanderbilt (1921&ndash;1924), assistant for Vanderbilt (1925&ndash;1928).
#[[Jennings B. Whitworth]]: played for Alabama (1930&ndash;1931), head coach for [[Oklahoma State Cowboys football|Oklahoma State]] (1950&ndash;1954), Alabama (1955&ndash;1957).

==Head coaching record==
===College football===
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 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = national
 | year         = [[1925 college football season|1925]]
 | name         = [[1925 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
 | overall      = 10–0
 | conference   = 7–0
 | confstanding = T–1st
 | bowlname     = [[1926 Rose Bowl|Rose]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = national
 | year         = [[1926 college football season|1926]]
 | name         = [[1926 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
 | overall      = 9–0–1
 | conference   = 8–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1927 Rose Bowl|Rose]]
 | bowloutcome  = T
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1927 college football season|1927]]
 | name         = [[1927 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
 | overall      = 5–4–1
 | conference   = 3–4–1
 | confstanding = 10th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1928 college football season|1928]]
 | name         = [[1928 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
 | overall      = 6–3
 | conference   = 6–2
 | confstanding = 5th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1929 college football season|1929]]
 | name         = [[1929 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
 | overall      = 6–3
 | conference   = 4–3
 | confstanding = 5th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
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}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = national
 | year         = [[1930 college football season|1930]]
 | name         = [[1930 Alabama Crimson Tide football team|Alabama]]
 | overall      = 10–0
 | conference   = 8–0
 | confstanding = T–1st
 | bowlname     = [[1931 Rose Bowl|Rose]]
 | bowloutcome  = W
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Alabama
 | overall    = 61–13–3
 | confrecord = 45–10–2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Duke Blue Devils football|Duke Blue Devils]]
 | conf      = [[Southern Conference]]
 | startyear = 1931
 | endyear   = 1941
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1931 college football season|1931]]
 | name         = [[1931 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 5–3–2
 | conference   = 3–3–1
 | confstanding = T–8th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1932 college football season|1932]]
 | name         = [[1932 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 7–3
 | conference   = 5–3
 | confstanding = 9th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1933 college football season|1933]]
 | name         = [[1933 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 9–1
 | conference   = 4–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1934 college football season|1934]]
 | name         = [[1934 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 7–2
 | conference   = 3–1
 | confstanding = T–3rd
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1935 college football season|1935]]
 | name         = [[1935 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 8–2
 | conference   = 5–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1936 college football season|1936]]
 | name         = [[1936 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 9–1
 | conference   = 7–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     = 11
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1937 college football season|1937]]
 | name         = [[1937 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 7–2–1
 | conference   = 5–1
 | confstanding = 4th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     = 20
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1938 college football season|1938]]
 | name         = [[1938 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 9–1
 | conference   = 5–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1939 Rose Bowl|Rose]]
 | bowloutcome  = L
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     = 3
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1939 college football season|1939]]
 | name         = [[1939 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 8–1
 | conference   = 5–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     = 8
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1940 college football season|1940]]
 | name         = [[1940 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 7–2
 | conference   = 4–1
 | confstanding = 2nd
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     = 18
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship = conference
 | year         = [[1941 college football season|1941]]
 | name         = [[1941 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 9–1
 | conference   = 5–0
 | confstanding = 1st
 | bowlname     = [[1942 Rose Bowl|Rose]]
 | bowloutcome  = L
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     = 2
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name      = [[Duke Blue Devils football|Duke Blue Devils]]
 | conf      = [[Southern Conference]]
 | startyear = 1946
 | endyear   = 1950
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1946 college football season|1946]]
 | name         = [[1946 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 4–5
 | conference   = 3–2
 | confstanding = 5th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1947 college football season|1947]]
 | name         = [[1947 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 4–3–2
 | conference   = 3–1–1
 | confstanding = 4th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     = 19
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1948 college football season|1948]]
 | name         = [[1948 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 4–3–2
 | conference   = 3–2–1
 | confstanding = 7th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1949 college football season|1949]]
 | name         = [[1949 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 6–3
 | conference   = 4–2
 | confstanding = T–4th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
 | championship =
 | year         = [[1950 college football season|1950]]
 | name         = [[1950 Duke Blue Devils football team|Duke]]
 | overall      = 7–3
 | conference   = 5–2
 | confstanding = 6th
 | bowlname     =
 | bowloutcome  =
 | bcsbowl      =
 | ranking      =
 | ranking2     =
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Duke
 | overall    = 110–36–7
 | confrecord = 68–18–3
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
 | overall  = 171–49–10
 | bowls    = no
 | poll     = two
 | polltype =
}}

===College basketball===
{{CBB Yearly Record Start | type = coach | conference = | postseason = | poll = }}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
 | name       = [[Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball|Vanderbilt Commodores]]
 | conference = [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]
 | startyear  = 1921
 | endyear    = 1923
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | season       = [[1921–22 NCAA men's basketball season|1921–22]]
 | name         = Vanderbilt
 | overall      = 8–8
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
 | season       = [[1922–23 NCAA men's basketball season|1922–23]]
 | name         = Vanderbilt
 | overall      = 16–8
 | conference   = 
 | confstanding = 
 | postseason   = 
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal
 | name       = Vanderbilt
 | overall    = 24–16 ({{Winning percentage|24|16}})
 | confrecord =
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
 | overall = 24–16 ({{Winning percentage|24|16}})
 | legend  = no
}}

==Notes==
{{Reflist|group=n}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{College Football HoF|1402}}
* Coaching record from [https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/wallace-wade-1.html College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com]
* {{Find a Grave}}

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