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Wallace Wade
1923-1950 • Alabama, Duke
2 schools coached, anchored by Duke.
Wallace Wade's coaching record is 171-49-10, highlighted by seasons at Duke from 1923 to 1950.
Wallace Wade coached 24 seasons, won 76.5%, and posted an average SRS of 12.0. Best season: 1930 Alabama. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 171-49-10
- Career win rate
- 76.5%
- Average SRS
- 12.0
- Peak SRS
- 25.0
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 24
- Career span
- 28 years
- Best finish
- #2
- Consistency
- 51.9
Primary school anchor
Duke
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 92.6.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 171-49-10
- Duke record
- 85-19-3
- Full-season record
- 171-49-10
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-6
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs North Carolina
- 8-7-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-2-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
230 countable games, 76.5% win rate.
11 countable seasons at Duke.
24 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Duke-North Carolina games in this dataset.
5 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 25, 1950. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Wallace Wade
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Wallace Wade: 1931 Duke
1923Actual season year • SRS range -0.2 to 25.01950
Active comparison point
Wallace Wade • 1930
1930 Alabama
Best season10-0 • SRS 25.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+16.4
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results12
| 1950 Regular Week 7 | Duke | Maryland | #18 | L14-26 |
| 1950 Regular Week 4 | Duke | Tennessee | #18 | L7-28 |
| 1947 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #9 | L0-7 |
| 1946 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #7 | L0-14 |
| 1946 Regular Week 7 | Duke | Army | #1 | L0-19 |
| 1946 Regular Week 4 | Duke | Tennessee | #10 | L7-12 |
| 1946 Regular Week 3 | Duke | NC State | #12 | L6-13 |
| 1941 Postseason Week 1 | Duke | Oregon State | #12 | L16-20 |
| 1940 Regular Week 4 | Duke | Tennessee | #5 | L0-13 |
| 1939 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #13 | W7-6 |
| 1938 Postseason Week 1 | Duke | USC | #7 | L3-7 |
| 1936 Regular Week 6 | Duke | Tennessee | #17 | L13-15 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Duke
1946-1950 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 9.0 • Win % 58.7%
Duke
1931-1941 • 11 seasons
Avg SRS 12.3 • Win % 80.8%
Alabama
1923-1930 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 13.5 • Win % 81.2%
- Longest tenure
- Duke • 11 seasons
- Best tenure
- Alabama • 13.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Alabama • 81.2%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Wallace Wade
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Duke
1946-1950 • 25-17-4
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 9.0Win % 58.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Duke
1931-1941 • 85-19-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.3Win % 80.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.7 during vs 4.8 baseline
+2.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.3 during vs -6.6 baseline
+18.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
54.5% during vs 0.0% baseline
+54.5%
Alabama
1923-1930 • 61-13-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 13.5Win % 81.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.6 during vs 7.3 baseline
+0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
13.5 during vs 2.3 baseline
+11.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 100.0% baseline
-100.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Alabama 1930
10-0 • SRS 25.0
Biggest Improvement
Alabama 1924
8-1 • 16.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Duke 1931
5-3-2 • SRS -0.2
Biggest Drop
Duke 1931
5-3-2 • -25.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Duke | 1950 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | #16 | — | 3.3 | — | — | — | -5.4 | +3.3% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1949 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 8.7 | — | — | — | +0.3 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1948 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 55.6% | — | — | 8.4 | — | — | — | +0.7 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1947 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 55.6% | — | #19 | 7.7 | — | — | — | -9.4 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1946 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | 17.1 | — | — | — | -0.1 | -45.6% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1941 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | #2 | 17.2 | — | — | — | +1.0 | +12.2% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1940 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | #18 | 16.2 | — | — | — | -2.7 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1939 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | #8 | 18.9 | — | — | — | +4.5 | -1.1% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1938 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | #3 | 14.4 | — | — | — | +2.5 | +15.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1937 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | #20 | 11.9 | — | — | — | -5.7 | -15.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1936 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | #11 | 17.6 | — | — | — | +6.3 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1935 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 11.3 | — | — | — | -1.1 | +2.2% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1934 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 12.4 | — | — | — | +3.7 | -12.2% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1933 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | — | 8.7 | — | — | — | +2.4 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1932 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 6.3 | — | — | — | +6.5 | +10.0% | Season summary |
| Duke | 1931 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60.0% | — | — | -0.2 | — | — | — | -25.2 | -40.0% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1930 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 25.0 | — | — | — | +16.4 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1929 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 8.6 | — | — | — | -4.3 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1928 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 12.9 | — | — | — | +12.2 | +11.7% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1927 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 0.7 | — | — | — | -19.0 | -40.0% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1926 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 95.0% | — | — | 19.7 | — | — | — | -0.3 | -5.0% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1925 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 20.0 | — | — | — | +1.1 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1924 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 18.9 | — | — | — | +16.6 | +13.9% | Season summary |
| Alabama | 1923 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 2.3 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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