Polly Wallace

Leigh Allen "Polly" Wallace (February 10, 1898 – February 9, 1971) was an American football player, wrestler and wrestling coach.

Early life Wallace was born in 1898. He 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.

Coaching career Wallace later became the wrestling coach at the University of Oklahoma. He was the head football coach at East Central University (then known as East Central State Normal School) in Ada, Oklahoma from 1927 to 1933.

Family and later years Wallace moved to Great Falls, Montana, in 1937 to work with lumber dealers. He later operated a lumber yard there. He also served several terms as the county's treasurer.

Wallace was posthumously inducted into the Iowa State Hall of Fame in 2000.

Wallace and his wife, Nellie, had two children, a son and a daughter.

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