Evening star., 1938-11-09
Pitt Dukes Bugaboo
As Rose Bowl Bee
Begins 10 Buzz
Football Messiuh for
'Bumu and Blue Devils
Has Simple Formula
BY DREW MIDDLETON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

BY DREW MIDDLETON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
DURHAM, N. c., Nov. 9.-William
Wallace Wade, the football Messiah,
who led first Alabama and then
Duke out Of the football wilderness
to the promised land Of national
recognition and fat gate receipts, is
heading into the November Of one
OF his greatest seasons.
The quiet gentleman who coaches
the current collection Of Dukes Blue
Devils-unbeaten, united and un-
scored on at this writing-is one of
the top men Of his profession. If
you don't think so, keep it to your
self south of the Mason Dixon line.
Around here, especially. they're
likely to haul down the artillery
gran 'pappy lugged at Shiloh and let
you have it.
Duke has three hurdles of varying
height between it and the goal of
all football teams, an unbeaten sea-
son. They are Syracuse, North
Carolina State and Pittsburgh. Wade
is the only one worrying about the
first two. For down here the talk
is all about the Pitt game.
Duke fans believe with a religious
fervor Wade can pull his boys
through against Pitt team that is
powerful despite its defeat by Car
negie Tech. Then, if successful, on
to the Rose Bowl. perhaps.
Ever since Wade appeared at Duke
early In 1881 he has been marching
ahead. Before he came, Duke was
football doormat. Big colleges
scheduled 1t as breather, their
smaller rivals smacked it around
with alarming frequency.
Third Team Gets Him Rolling.
His third team at Duke showed
Wade was under way. The eleven
won nine straight, took the Southern
Conference championship and lost
only to Georgia Tech in an epic 60
struggle that ended the season. Con-
ference championships rolled into
Durham, along with horde of new
students, in 1885 and 1886. Only
North Carolina State stands in the
way of fourth championship this
season.
Wade's success at Duke is no sur
prise to football seers all over the
Nation. Long ago they learned, by
scanning the sports pages each au-
tumn Sunday morning, that Wade
coached teams seldom lost, and when
they did, seldom went down under
huge scores; that Dukes spirit and
morale always ran high, winning or
losing
"If I had to choose between a
squad of good morale and one of
good physical build, Id take the
squad with the morale" drawls
Wade. And you can bet he means it.
Football is creed, cult to be fol-
lowed with answering loyalty by
Wallace Wade and by those who fol-
low his teachings.
Wade was born IS years ago In
Trenton, Tenn. His schooling took
IN Trenton High School, Morgan
Park Academy in Chicago and
Brown University. At Brown he
played guard for three years.
After two-year war hitch. spent
to his disgust in training camps,
Wade turned to coaching. He spent
two years at Fitzgerald and Clark
at Tullahoma, Tenn; two more at
Vanderbilt as assistant coach,
Has Simple Formula.
BY then the Wade formula for
winning football was complete. It
was and still is simple:
(AD Strict attention to funda-
mentals.
(B) Fit your system to your play
erS.
Co Short, concentrated practice
sessions.
Cd Play football with all you
have, all the time.
The formula and Wade got their
first chance at Alabama when Wade
went there In 1923. The rest is
history. Alabama became the feared
Crimson Tide, produced great play
ers by the bushel and frisked about
with the best in the Nation.
Frisked about darned successfully.
WV A2AS VSolAAo VI A0A1, 1870, 1870
and 1880 won Southern Conference
championships. The last three went
to the Rose Bowl. The first beat
Washington State, 20-19; the Sec
ond tied Stanford, ~. and the
third rolled over Washington State,
24-0.
Alabamas name and the names
Of its stars, Fred Sington, Johnny
Mack Brown, Hicks and Holm be-
came household words.
In eight years at Alabama Wade's
teams won 81 games, lost 13 and
and tied 3. After six wins this year
his Duke record reads: Won. So; lost,
IA; tied, 3. He never has been beaten
in the Rose Bowl. Not since 1923,
when Syracuse smacked his first
Alabama team. $50, has he been
beaten badly. And he hopes to close
that account at Syracuse Novem-
ber IL.
If you have the old idea of a foot
ball coach, mouthy individual who
goes on crying jags in the dressing
room between halves and curses his
players with fo'csle profanity with
equal ease, discard 1t in considering
Wallace Wade.