Polly Wallace
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born: | February 10, 1898 |
| Died: | February 1971 (aged 72) Great Falls, Montana |
| Weight: | 181 lb (82 kg) |
| Position: | Center |
Leigh Allen "Polly" Wallace (February 10, 1898 – February 1971) was an American football player, wrestler and wrestling coach.
Wallace graduated from Oklahoma City High School in 1916, where he played football and basketball. He then played football at the center position for the Iowa State Cyclones football team. His athletic career was interrupted by military service during World War I. He returned to Iowa State after the war and was selected by Walter Eckersall as a first-team player on the 1920 College Football All-America Team.[1] He subsequently played for the Oklahoma Sooners football team and won third-team honors from the Associated Press on the 1926 College Football All-America Team[2]
Wallace later became the wrestling coach at the University of Oklahoma.[3] In his later years, he lived in Great Falls, Montana, where he owned a lumber yard.[4] He died in 1971 and was posthumously inducted into the Iowa State Hall of Fame in 2000.[3]
Wallace served as the head football coach and athletic director at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa in 1924.[5] He was the head football coach at East Central University (then known as East Central State Normal School) in Ada, Oklahoma form 1927 to 1933.[6]
Wallace was the father of Epsicopalian bishop Leigh A. Wallace Jr..[7]
References
- ^ "Weston on Second All-American Team". Janesville Daily Gazette. 1920-12-13.
- ^ "Associated Press Picks All-American Eleven". Morning News Review. South Carolina. 1926-12-05.
- ^ a b "Leigh "Polly" Wallace - Hall of Fame Class of 2000". Iowa State University. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
- ^ "Leigh "Polly" Wallace, Iowa State University, 1960". Des Moines Register. June 11, 2005.
- ^ "Polly Wallace". Des Moines Register. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
- ^ "Polly Wallace". Ada Weekly News. August 11, 1927. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
- ^ "Leigh Allen Wallace, Jr". Missoulan. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
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