Wallace O. Hawkins

Wallace O. Hawkins Sr. (May 1, 1898 – November 16, 1988) was American college football coach, athletics administrator, and community leader. He served as the head football coach at Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tennessee from 1928 to 1942.

A native of Atlanta, Hawkins attended Knoxville College, where he played football as a quarterback and baseball as a second baseman. He graduated from Knoxville college in 1921, and went to graduate school at the University of Cincinnati during the summers from 1930 to 1933. He also did graduate work at George Williams College in Chicago.

At Knoxville College, Hawkins was the athletic director and the head of the department of health and physical education from 1928 to 1943. He served as executive secretary of the YMCA in Dayton, Ohio from 1947 to 1963. He moved to Zanesville, Ohio, where was the executive director of the Community Center until 1967. That year, he was appointed as a relocation officer for an industrial park development project.

Hawkins died on November 16, 1988, at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton.

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