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Bill Walls

1914 – 1993

American football player

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Lived 1914 – 1993 (aged 78). Bill Walls was an American american football player.

William Thomas Walls Jr. (December 8, 1912 – January 3, 1993) was an American professional football player and coach. He played professionally as an end for six seasons with the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He attended North Little Rock High School in North Little Rock, Arkansas, and played college football at Texas Christian University (TCU).

Walls was the head football coach at Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas from 1947 to 1948. He resigned in 1949 to become the head football coach at University of Corpus Christi—now known as Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.

Biography Walls was born December 8, 1912, in Lonoke, Arkansas. He grew up in Little Rock.

Walls enrolled at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas in 1933, playing football for the freshman team. In the spring of 1934 he attended spring practice in preparation to try out for the varsity squad, a team in its first year under new head coach Leo R. "Dutch" Meyer.

Walls was an undrafted free agent who made the squad with the New York Giants in 1937 and wound up playing six seasons for the team — 1937 to 1939 and 1941 to 1943.

Walls died January 3, 1993.

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Texas Christian University
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William Thomas Walls

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Who was Bill Walls?

American football player (1914-1993)

When was Bill Walls born?

Bill Walls was born on 8 December 1914 in Lonoke.

When did Bill Walls die?

Bill Walls died on 3 January 1993.

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Bill Walls was an american football player.

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Bill Walls was American.

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· Wikidata: Q4911273

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