Joe was a great high school basketball player at Lexington Dunbar High School for the great coach S. T. Roach. He was selected for the Kentucky All- Star Team which would play two games against Indiana in 1966. Due to a technicality he was replaced on the team by Eugene Smith of Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the same year that the legendary Rick Mount was crowned “Mr. Basketball for Indiana. Wallace Williams hit the playgrounds in Louisville his post high school years with Smith and at least once with Hamilton during those years…Smith graduated from Male High School and went on to Kentucky Wesleyan College and helped his team to at least two NCAA Championships. Hamilton went on to star at North Texas State Univ. and then to the Dallas Chaparrals of the ABA which later became the San Antonio Spurs. Williams, a team statistician at Durham High School and a graduate of Campbellsville High school did not play in high school, was the first black to play on a white school team (in the 50’s he was the first black to enroll at a white school Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Campbellsville) went to Bellarmine College and ran cross-country and played on the freshmen basketball team. His career was interrupted by a four-year stent in the Air Force during the Vietnam War where he played on the squadron team at Amarillo Air Force base, was player/coach for his squadron team at Reese Air Force Base, stared on the Reese Base team and in West Texas Pro/Am leagues…he stared at Northeastern Illinois University after being honorably discharged from the Air Force and was teammate of former NBA referee Danny Crawford. In his post collegiate years Williams competed in the Seoul Olympics Marathon in 1988.