Research Catalog

Title

Wallace Wade : championship years at Alabama and Duke / Lewis Bowling.

Author

Bowling, Lewis.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2006.

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Description

xiii, 352 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "In this tribute to one of the great coaches in college football history, Lewis Bowling paints a compelling portrait of an exceptional motivator, strategist, and role model: Wallace Wade. Wade is the man credited by both Frank Thomas and Bear Bryant with establishing the tradition of outstanding football at Alabama - his Alabama teams won three national championships, and the Crimson Tide's victory over Washington in the 1926 Rose Bowl is widely considered to be the most important victory in the history of southern football. Wade is also responsible for bringing big-time college football to the state of North Carolina with his power house Duke teams of the 1930s and 1940s, highlighted by Rose Bowl appearances in 1939 and 1942.
• He served his second tour in the Army during World War II, advancing to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and later went on to become commissioner of the Southern Conference before "retiring" to raise cattle on his North Carolina farm."--Jacket.

Subject

• Wade, Wallace, 1892-1986
• University of Alabama > History
• Alabama Crimson Tide (Football team) > History
• Duke University > History
• Football coaches > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-339) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The early years -- A brown bear -- Fitzgerald and Clark -- Undefeated seasons at Vanderbilt -- A bear arrives in Tuscaloosa -- The tide starts to rise -- The South rises again -- 1926 Rose Bowl -- After the game -- 1926-National Champions again -- 1927 -- 1928 and 1929 -- 1930-Nine games: Alabama-247, Opponents-13 -- 1931 Rose Bowl -- A blue devil -- 1931-First year at Duke -- 1932-Duke football starts to rumble -- Almost perfect -- 1934 -- 1935 -- 1936-Ace Parker, an All-American -- 1937 -- Unbeaten, united, unscored upon -- 1939 Rose Bowl -- 1939-8 and 1 -- 1940 -- 1941-the Rose Bowl come to Durham -- World War II --1946-1950 -- Retirement -- Coach Wade in words.

ISBN

• 159460231X
• 9781594602313

LCCN

^^2006028235

OCLC

• 71173842
• SCSB-11011490

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library