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PHOTO COURTESY OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY 1n a 1950 game, the Wake Forest band plus two local high-school bands combine spell out the name "Peahead" PEAHEAD: Coac is tied to Elon, WFU By Tucker Mitchell SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL When Wake Forest and Elon square off at BB&T Field on Saturday night, it won't exactly feel like rivalry week. The two schools have little in common when it comes to athletics. But they do share one significant bond - the athletics denizens of both schools know who D.C. "Peahead" Walker was. During his 50-plus year career in com• petitive athletics, Walker touched Elon and Wake Forest with his coaching magic. At Elon, where he coached football, bas- _ ketball and baseball from ~927 to 1937, ... Walker piled up con- .._.._ ference champion- joumalnow.com 'ships like cordwood. This story is At Wake Forest, an except from ·he presided over the a more in depth greatest football run PHOTOS COURTESY OF WAKE FOREST UNI tASITY feature on in school history, Jim coaching leg• Coach D.C. "Peahead"Walker of Wake Grobe's current reign end Peahead Forest displays a freshly emptied bowl of notwithstanding. Walker. The full local barbecue (above). Walker and Murray From 1937 to 1950, • story is posted Greason (right) coach the Deacons from in the sports Walker's Deacons the Wake Forest sideline. section at www. went 77-51-6 (still the journalnow. school record for wins Wake Forest to upsets of Georgia (1945) and com by a coach), played in Tennessee (1946) and six wins over North two bowl games back Carolina in 10 years (1941-50); led Wake to when that was hard to the 1946 Gator Bowl and 1949 Dixie Bowl· do and made a habit of tormenting bigger, led Montreal of the CFL to three straight Grey better-funded rivals. Cup appearances (1954-56). Although there might not be electric• o His style: Walker was a dapper dress• ity in the air when Wake Forest and Elon er. His hand-painted neckties, usually worn meet in football for the first time since with a maroon or black shirt, were so well• 1939, there might be something else - known that fans regularly sent him new ones in the mail. the ghost of Pea head Walker, shaking his His coaching style: He was a tough, head at those sissified facemasks or cack• O ling at a joke he just told. no-nonsense coach who liked full-contact practices and sometimes threw rocks at tey• fyou listen ctueiullx; you might hear ers who \oa\ed wllile running laps. But ne -an A\abama draw\ i.n the \ate September was a 'lexible tactician. His mismatclled Elon breeze. teams passed a lot (for that era), his 1939 This "Peahead Bowl Prime!" might Wake Forest team led the nation in rushin , help you know for sure. and his 1954 Montreal Alouettes set CFL The man passing records that lasted into the 1990s. Like current Wake Forest coach Jim Grob , ..J His name: He was born Daniah Clyde Walker thought injuries were for sissies. Un• Walker in 1899 but had his name legally like Grobe, he thought field goals were, t . changed to Douglas Clyde before registering His Wake Forest teams never tried one. for the draft in 1918. • O His stand-up comedy: From the 1940s D His nickname: When Walker was 10 until the end of his life, Walker was a sought• or 11, his neighborhood "gang" observed that after banquet speaker with a spontaneous wit all the adults had nicknames and decided and standard repertoire. The latter included they needed some, too. They nicknamed this line, making fun of the wife of Clems n each other after adults they knew. Walker coach Frank Howard and her unusual (for the was christened "Peahead" after a well-known times) habit of accompanying him on all road town drunk. Players at Elon and Wake Forest trips. "The only reason she does that," Walker called him ''The Head" ... behind his back. told a thousand audiences,. "is because Frank His second wife, Flonnie, nicknamed his nick• name, which she didn't like, and called him is so damn ugly she doesn't want to have to "Petie." kiss him goodbye." .J His family and hometown: Walker D His record in Wake-Elon games: 1-1-1. was born in Georgia, the second of nine chil• His first Elon team tied Wake Forest 0-0 in dren, but grew up in the Birmingham, Ala., 1927. The Deacons defeated Walker's Chris• suburb of Ensley. A younger brother, Bub, tians 25-6 in 1929, and Walker's Deacons · played football at Alabama with Bear Bryant. defeated the Christians 34-0 in a 1939 game .J His education: Walker attended class• in Greensboro . es at Birmingham Southern University (kind A recruiting story of a prep school), Howard College (now Sam• grounds. He readily agreed to attend "Wake The story sounds implausible, but Biff ford University) and maybe Vanderbilt. He The most famous story told by or about Forest" and play for Walker. George, Bill's son, says that his dad always did not complete his degree until enrolling at Peahead Walker involves the recruitment When he showed up for fall practice a few told it as the truth. '!i\nd dad was from a small Elon - while coaching there. He graduated of future All-America and future All-NFL months later, George immediately noticed town and he did live a sheltered life," the with the Class of 1931. player Bill George to Wake Forest. As the that the surroundings were, well, different, al• younger George said. story goes, Walker met George, a strapping "It's possible, I guess." u His career: Played 12 seasons of though still just a short drive from the Raleigh 17-year-old tackle from western Pennsylvania, train station (the school was still in the Wake minor-league baseball, reaching a competi• at the Raleigh train station, piled him into his County town of Wake Forest then). He finally Tucker Mitchell is a former Journal report• tive peak with Class AA Rochester in 1928; alumni-donated Cadillac and took him for a worked up the nerve to ask his coach about er and sports columnist. His second book managed four different minor-league teams tour of the striking campus at ... Duke Univer• it. Walker listened, nodded and said, "Oh, Peahead! Life and times of a Southern to pennants; won almost two-thirds of all sity. A shy, unworldly small-town boy, George you're talking about the East Campus. That's Coach is scheduled for publication in possible conference titles during a 10-year, was awestruck by the Gothic architecture, for upperclassmen. You'll be over there in a 2010. Mitchell can be reached at three-sport coaching career at Elon; led stone buildings and wonderfully manicured few years." [email protected].

Smith, who is from Plano, ~ ------·------~ R Deacons Tex., is 6-4, 230-pounds. I 8To~oedFcomPageB1 Ellis, the brother of Chantz Continued From Page 81 1 No radio on Saturday; McClinic, a former line• about.' So I didn't have to backer at Wake Forest, is 6-2, I I changes. Luckett, a redshirt worry about it," 235-pounds. Ii 1 Thayer punting aplenty freshman, played in his first At 6-1, 225-pounds, Or• "You've got Derricus and college game last week when ange is small to be playing Kevin in the mix," Henry said. I coMPILEosy JOHN DELL as I can put it where I need it to be," Levine suffered a knee inju• on the defensive line. Wilber "Obviously Will and Gelo are • WSNC will not provide radio Thayer said. ry. Also, quarterback Jarrett is 6-5, 230-pounds, Tristan probably ahead of the other coverage of Saturday's game be- Dunston, who sat out last Darty, a sophomore start• two guys. tween Winston-Salem State and • Thayer was one of the many week's game with a sprained ing at the other end, is 6-2, "But we'll see as we go Morgan State at Giants Stadium. players who attend Chancellor Don- ankle, is at 90 percent, Blount 250-pounds and Wright is along as we get to Thursday." Chris Zona, an assistant athletics aid Reaves' meeting to discuss end- said, and has practiced. The director for media ing the move to Division I. He said 6-4, 230-pounds. · starter could be Dunston or Both Grobe and Henry said relations, said that' - that some of the older players on the "It's not a big deal because Rans redshirt freshman Branden that if a first-year freshman l.Juvt.L- there will be radio team stuck up for the freshmen. I'm not that small," Orange is pressed into action, it will No'IGUUUI\ coverage of next "I've got to give it up to the se- Williams. said. "The guys I go against, 1 "When adversity hits, you probably be Zach Thompson, week's game at niors because in thE. meeting, players they're kind of bigger than who is 6-5 and weighs 250 S.C.-State. like Juan Corders and Jared Mitch- are going to hear all kinds of me. They're big guys. pounds. ''The contracts for the announcers ell, who are seniors, really stood up rumors," Blount said. "Ru• should be finalized by then," Zona and wanted to know what happens to mors are like opinions, ev• "So I've got to use my "Zach's probably, of all quickness and my speed to said. "We are expecting to have the the freshmen," Thayer said. '!i\nd that erybody has one; so I'm not our young guys, more physi• rest of the games on the radio, start- meant a lot to us." get around them." buying into any of that, and cal," Grobe said. "He's a big• ing with S.C. State." neither are my players. Henry said that he'll prob• ger guy. • Lost in the shuffle of the an• ably decide on a starter after "What I like about this "But once we make that • Punter Landen Thayer, a nouncement to stay in Division II is today's practice. He said he'll freshman from West Forsyth, has what kind of team the Rams could particular football team, call, my feeling is we've got to also be looking hard to see how had plenty of work in the first two have next fall in the CIAA. regardless of the adversity find a whole bunch of snaps much help he might expect games. He has punted 14 times for Joe Taylor, the Florida A&M that's hit us, they have come. for him. We hesitate to do that. , from Kevin Smith and Derri• an average of 39.4 yards and is 2 for coach, said: ''They have a lot of right back and continued to We don't want to do that." 3 on field-goal attempts. Division I talent, and if most of the cus Ellis, two redshirt fresh• compete." "I'm getting a lot of reps kicking, players stay, they will be very hard to men who have yet to crack the [email protected] but that doesn't bother me as long beat in that conference next season." [email protected] substitution rotation. 727-7323 727-4081 . . : ~ . ;· . . ··:•"''

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\'ears ago wnen-WakeForest was a college and not a pres• tigious university, when the , school was located at Wake ~~rest and .actually. got along .on Baptist dollars -wtthocr the benefit of the Reynolds green, the football team played· in the But for all his ferocity, Pea.:· first Groves ·Stadium and was head turned rut to be a paper coached by an Irrasclble, pro• tiger. Inside, the man has · : ..... - , -,..- ,. fane, demanding. unreasonable always been warm and cursed genius named Douglas Clyde with an intense loyalty 'to his 1 Walker. All of his friends friends and to the things in called him P eahead, and his which he has believed. It was enemies had vartors names for this very loyalty to his princi• him which generally reflect ples that Jlrevented his com• either on his parentage or his promise. with the meddling legitimacy or both. bands of roving clergymen who infested the Wake Forest Peahead Walker gave Wake campus. So, he hauled off to Forest more coaching per Canada where he was an un• dollar than any institution of common success in the Pr~ higher learning ever extracted fessiooal Canadian League. In from a football man in the his• recent years Peahead has been tory of the game. He instilled a scoot for the New York foot• ·. in his players a fierce desire ball Giants and much in demand ··'to win, for they had rather face as an after-dinner speaker the devil himself with a bad whose salty Style and Incfsive Monday hangover than towrithe wit could at once convulse and under the scourge of Peahead' s impress audiences of all ages vitriolic tongue. The trouble and inclinations. with Peahead ·those days was that he lacked the modicum Pea head's wife, Flonnie, is of hypocrisy necessary to be his most enthusiastic fan and accepted to all the· clergy who admirer. Like any wife, she roamed about in Baptist Bottom. probably has heard an of In fact, when some of the good his stories ten times over, but brethren visiting the Wake she always laughs the loudest, Forest campus on ecclesi- She also plays a very mean astical matters saw fit to visit piano, and as the sportswriters the football practice session, grew older and lost some of Peahead seemed to spew forth their fear of Peahead, it never an even more impressive bar-· failed to be great fun to sing rage of language than he or- around the piano with Flonnie, dinartly did. Whatever reason P eahead . knew he was tone• you may have heard, and what- __ deaf, rut he sang anyway. ever else may have mitigated the situation, Peahead really Peahead is battling for his left Wake Forest because he biggest win. He is cr iti• was strangling on Bapnst prea- cally ill, and the doctors have chers. said the prognosis is not enccuraging. But Flonnie says The fierce desire to win men• that in the face of grim pro• tioned above was predicated bability, Peahead is. deter• largely on fear. .For while mined that he will get well, most of his hulking behemoths -nc matter howmanydoctorssay towered over Peahead by a good he won't. I wooldn't bet 12 inches and solid hundred against him.

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:'J\nd ~,Win~ing~~1rid,C0Gch [ • ···~ _:' 1>. • : . '• • •.. ·- • ~· • ...... CHARLOTTE; N.C. (AP) -7 .It had always been difficult.' to separate .f~t from fiction when ~~, came to Douglas Clyde (Pea.head) Walker .. And now .that the only man who· knew whether . the rumors were true_:_ Peahead himself:_ is dead.jno.one Will know for Sure. "...... · !. .· ... · .. · One thing is certain, how- bowl - the 1949 Dixie Bowl ever. His name will go down - but lost to Baylor, .. ~ sports history a(a ..tough, ; His proudest moment, how• ~e~ble --~ ~~9:~.!L ...~ev.er, 1.was-~.b.en-..he led.his Tuotofilrcoaclf. . · .. ·.. · · . ·• . Deacons:" to· 19-6 upset over They were telling ·the sto- Bob Neyland's great Tennes• ries in the Carolinas Thurs- see team in "1946, just a week :.day. after. Peahead. died at. 71 ~ ..a: ft er .the., :Volunteers. had · 'aftei: a long illness.:;~i;;rJ~~:;'~{beaten -,'..f.helZAI~bamac:.!Rose ·~ One told of a hotdaywhen .. 'Bowlehampions.~·;,'}':/;: .'.~',-.--;.; a ':me~be; . ,•of Wake Forest ... The stocky . native of Birm-1 . University s ft;i0tball .. tea m Ingham, Ala., played football, collapsed .during a .· brutal baseball and basketball· at work~ut under ~ · hot. North Birmingham Southern a n d Carolina sun .. ·· ·c • • · >,1':-tHoward .College. After gradu• ;. z: '~This man isn't brea~ng,·"": -ation ·from Howard in 1952 he )Peahe·a-·d·, ·w·alker·. .said the m~~c.-·:::. .. ·:""-· . ·;.. ;r.. 7 ffeyed minoiieague basebaU, . . . W a I k e r _looked down •. ·. ·and for five years ill the ·'30s · · ''.Well,". he s~d,. ','You·~~ ... a .'managed. the Snow Hill,.-N.' i ------..----r· doctor. Make him breathe. . C.; · team in the old Coastal . What W a l k e r. lac~ed. m Plain League. . ,. · · · . tact, he made up ID wmmng ' He ··coached football at At- · f~otball games. He turned lantic Christian College at 'I virt~ally unknown Wake For- Wilson, N:' C., iii 1926, and l est mto a team t~ be feared. nwved -to ·an 0th e.r small after _he took·over ID 1~. ·· N.orth Carolina College, Elon, The Deaco~s w?n their only wbire he stayed 10 years be• bawl ga.me · ~ history under · fore going to Wake Forest. Walker, :P(!featmg South Caro- ... . lina in:'<1t11e 1946 'Gator Bowl :At Wake Forest he guided game .4':71' Jacksonville, Fla. hi~ · teams t h r o u g h 77 .He took"'lbe Dea cs· to another t:ium_phs, 51 defeats and O ':: t. . '.:,..· -~. ·. •::.I· ·· ·ties m ·14 years. No· other. ~~ ... :~-~~~·.._·£. .~~ · .... -. 'coach since. then at ·wake Foresf.has lasted more than · five years or .won more than ~21 games .. ·· · . · .After he left Wake Forest he was an assistant. on the Yale .staff, and coached. the Montreal Alouettes profession• al team. In recent . years be had been a seout for the New York football Giants. Funeral ... services will be ·Jield at. u· a.m. Saturday in ,Christ Episcopal Church in Charlotte .. · ' ~e · and ·Frank Howard, for• mer football coach and · now athletic director at Clemson, for years bantered each oth• er. Their good-natured "feud" enlivened sports pages. Tex Coulter, who played rig.ht offensive tackle when Peahead coached Montreal in the early sos;. recalled that P e a he a d.'s reputation for toughness was . largely undes• erved. 0 t h e r s, too, saw through that camouflage of gruffness.

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NAME PUB DATE ======Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1949-12-02 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1951-03-12 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1949-09-23 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1947-09-26 Walker, Douglas Clyde WFM 1965-07 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1946-12-06 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1951-03-12 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1950-11-27 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1938-09-17 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1941-10-24 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1970-10-02 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1937-09-25 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1937-09-25 Walker, Douglas Clyde WFM 1939-12-09 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1946-11-01 Walker, Douglas Clyde WFM 1982-04 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1950-09-25 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1950-10-02 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1985-10-23 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1950-10-30 Walker, Douglas Clyde. OGB 1947-11-07 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1938-09-17 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1941-12-12 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1941-09-26 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1941-09-19 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1939-10-14 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1948-10-29 Walker, Douglas Clyde OGB 1948-12-17 Walker, Douglas Clyde WFM 1965-11 Walker, Douglas Clyde (Mrs.) WFM 1970-11 ~ + 0.(hc.\e...

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SELECTION CRiiriRIA: (NAME="Walker, Douglas") l' lSS 1is year's clas was also ths )n paper par iversitv swit cost of sheL udents felt ti 1946 Howler: "Captain Nick Sacrinty and Head Coach sufficient rev es C. hey paid $4 D. 'Peahead' Walker give each other the eye."

e not the same • • • •11 < e Forest athletics during World War II m•zec by Kenneth B. Gwynn I its right to r The Winsto tence and ingenuity that was necessary to continue ath• "" .111 home front was greatly influenced by d the der ert: letics and therefore provide amusement, yet comply \ " though it was not visited by actual battle. ernplovr-es t 1111 • IL' created, and as America mobilized to with existing conditions. From 1941to1945, Wake Forest u. \I •; meet the Axis challenge, a production was a good example of this kind of college. pn it.Ill~~ Ctl!TI I. 1 • 1 complished. This high level of production Wake Forest College opened its 1941--42fall session in c1 7':1 to c " '" ,I by the military, though, and civilians - with nearly one thousand young men enrolled. They had iiversuv olfic I higher income than ever before - faced barely enough time to switch their thoughts from the just scd the orga 11 • 111,my items they had previously taken for completed football season to the new basketball season offer our ,I ',. long hours of work reinforced the "all when an event occurred that would radically change ~e the vlcctic ... • v" 1 adage for many Americans, one of the both their lives and Wake Forest athletics. Only a week ons reached 1 , r ts of the war on Americans was the creation after the College's last football game of 1941 and hours part were ths "'' 11 ,, .. .i re for a diversion, any activity that could after its first basketball game, Pearl Harbor was attacked. the Universi1 '" 111d off of the shortages, the long hours of These two seasons, then, are representative: Wake unployees co "''I "'harsh reality of war. Forest football in 1941 was the last season to be unaf• 1, . . uiusements which became the most popu- fected by the war; the 1941-42 basketball season was the 11' m;:iinfµn"r W~M

DECEASED George Wiley Coggin, '04, April 10, 1964, Palmyra. Phillips C. Mc Dufiie, Sr., '05, en De• I I cember 29, 1964, Atlanta, Ga. I Fran/din Edwards, '10, on April 4, 1965, Franklin, Va. Edwin F. Aydlett, Sr., '12, on February 9, 1963, Elizabeth City. I I Seddon Goode, Jr., '14, on February 6, 1964, Lakeland, Florida. Furman McGee Barnes, '15, on Oc• tober 4, 1963, Raleigh. Albert Monroe Snider, '15, March, 1959, Denton. Herbert Richard Paschal, Sr., '16, on April 22, 1965, Washington. Leonce Vaughn, Jr., '16, on November 30, 1963, Hartsville, S. C. Orville Linwood Williams, '16, on April 6, 1965, Swansquarter. Hezzie Nehemiah Ward, '17, on May 13, 1963, Toledo, Ohio. Elton M. Mitchell, '20, on October 6, 1963, Youngsville. Grus F. Patterson, '21, on January 2, 1965, Sanford. Dr. Robert Loyd Bech, '23, on January 1, 1965, Huntington, W. Va. Hoyt B. Best, '23, August 11, 1964, Fal• mouth, Ky. Dr. Mack W. Gibson. '23, on January 20, 1965, Goldston. John M. Covington, '28, on March 6, 1962, Montgomery, Ala. Thomas Rawdon Garrett, '28, on July 14, 1964, Ahoskie. William Bernard Allsbrook. '29, on April 2, 1965, Roanoke Rapids. R. D. Smith, '30, on March 8. 1957, Oxford. Dr. Alexander Win{!ale Si mmon«. '35, January 4, 1965, Burlington. Dr. Russell P. Harris. -l r. '40, Novem• ber 22, 1964, Maplewood, La. Dr. Charles H. Daugherty, '51, on Feb• ruary 22, 1965, Tulsa, Okla. James Maynard Farris. '59, on Decem• Former Coach D. C. (Peahead) Walker, ber 23, 1964, Leaksville. O'Quinn (49), former football great. meet Dr. Roger P. McCutcheon nf Austin, Texas, who in 1962 conducted a survey to determine the potential for additional graduate work at the college, d ;,.d May COVER 31. He was 76. (Continued from Page 2) Dr. McCutcheon died in New Orleans of a heart attack. He was on his way to Wake Forest campus. Joyce Ann Wil• to his famous Chinese foods s•·1 his summer home at Franklin, N. C., sie receives her commission in the in his Oriental Restaurants; a i1 where funeral services were held June 3. U. S. Navy as her father and Com• for fellowship during the reunion •• Dr. McCutcheon conducted the survey, mander Mitchell look on. Chip and ner of the Class of 1910; att<"rill financed by the Z. Smith Reynolds Joan Hope with their friends Yates listeners at the Symposium on SI 1 Foundation, with Dr. 0. C. Carmichael, Dunnaway and Connie Belk laugh at Rights are interested in every '"' well-known educational consultant. C. C. Hope's jokes. Reverend Lee Dr. John Chandler, '45, Dr. and l\i A native of West Virginia, Dr. Mc• Pridgen, '42 and Reverend Lewis Lud• Tribble, and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. 11· Cutcheon received the B.A. degree from lum, '35, have common interests to at the head table for the Alumni Ii the College in 1910 and the M.A. and discuss. ner; newly elected Jim Turner r1·I, Ph.D. degree at Harvard University. He Outside: Dr. A. C. Reid and Dr. taught English at the College from 1914- before receiving the Alumni As~:"' C. S. Black silently recall their many 1916 and again in 1922-1925. tion's Presidential Gavel while Lilli years of service to Wake Forest dur• Dr. McCutcheon was coordinator of to Mrs. Frank Armstrong as I\ ing the dinner held in their honor; Lt. the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Founda• General Frank A. Armstrong, '22 and James Turner listens to Dr. W:il tion. His other posts included being dean Kitchen, president elect of the 11 of the graduate school at Tulane Uni• his wife and daughter receive greet• versity and director of program prepara• ings from Fred Isaacs, '50, Reunion man Gray School of Medicine A 1111 tion for college teachers at Vanderbilt Chairman; Tom Wong, '35, from At• Association; the class of 1915 log• I University. lanta could be comparing the lunch again for their 50th reunion.

30 THE WAKE FOREST MACM Reba Kamstra and Mr. James Hoge led the club in the adoption of their new constitution. The program was an address by President Harold W. Tribble who spoke on the status of Wake Forest College and its future aspirations. Plans were discussed for the spring meeting of the club. Northeast North Carolina Twenty-nine Wake Foresters responded to a call from president Ray S. Jones, Jr. to a meeting held at the Virginia Dare Hotel in Elizabeth City. Hank Garrity, Director of Development and Alumni Affairs spoke to the group on the challenges which face Wake Forest today and the needs which must be met in tomorrows philosophy of education. Craven Williams. Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Affairs summed up the football season to date and highlighted the freshman team and ~··~ the support it promises for the future. Plans were discussed for future meetings , .. and regular functioning of this club. Roanoke, Virginia Harvest Bowl festivities for thirty Wake Foresters got under way at the Shenandoah Club in Roanoke where an excellent buffet luncheon was enjoyed before the V.P.L football contest. Dr. Charles Duncan of Radford, Virginia, the club president. presided at the affair, and Craven Williams, Assistant Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, and Dr. Gene Hooks, Athletic Director, provided the program. The following new officers were elected: Mr. E. Frank Bass, presi• dent; Joseph W. Ferguson, Vice presi• dent; Milton Acree, Secretary-Treasurer. Rockingham County Dr. Paul Mabe presided as M. Henry Garrity, Dr. Gene Hooks, and Coach Buck Garrison of Ocean Drive Beach, S. C., a tackle on the 1945 Gator Bu,,./ ''"' chats with D. C. "Peahead" Walker, his coach during those days. Wolf.,• Jack Murdock spoke to thirty-four Wake members of the team, which defeated the University of South Carolina i11 Iii. fl• Foresters in Reidsville. Gator Bowl game. were honored during homecoming. (Photo by Rusty n,,,,,,,, I Alumni News Dr. Isaac Call Prevette, '17, "'' '02 '13 8, 1965, Pontiac, Michigan. DECEASED DECEASED Thomas E. Browne, '02, on August 28, Joe Badgett Currin. '13, on August 12, 1965, Murfreesboro, North Carolina. 1965, Roxboro, North Carolina. '20 DECEASED '04 '14 Charles Edward Brewer. ·20. "" ' ·, DECEASED DECEASED tember 5, 1965, Concord, North < ·,,,,,1i .. , Dr. Burton Justice Ray, '04, on August A. S. Ballard, '14, on September 7, Dr. Bryan C. West. '20, on 1\,,,.1 • 18, 1965, Franklin, Virginia. 1965, Maiden, N. C. 1965, Kinston, North Carolina '09 Philip J. Thomas, who had a degree '15 '23 from Wake Forest at the age of 17, DECEASED Rev. T. G. Proctor is a p:11 I ,,.. majoring in math and Greek, finds John P. Mull, '15, on August 29, 1965, instructor of history at Piedmout 11.11 himself too busy to retire. He is a book• Shelby, North Carolina. College. He is the minister of vi -, i1 .11 keeper and an accountant operating out at Salem Baptist Church. He li:1 1 .. ~ of his home near Hillsborough. '17 a pastor for 19 years, serving at lii·I. DECEASED DECEASED crest and Mocksville before goiru: '" If Reverend Hugh Benjamin Hines, '09, Dr. Edwin Guy McMillan, '17, on Belgian Congo where he was a 1111. ;, . on July 20, 1965, Sanford, North August 23, 1965, Greenville, South ary for the Regions Beyond Mis'·'"'"" Carolina. Carolina. Union of London.

24 THE WAKE FOREST J\!ll:\/1 HALL OF FAME

e Murray Crossley Greason, 1901-1960. !\-.; a student, he earned 12 letters and r.rptained the football and· basketball I «ams. Later he coached fine basketball, football and baseball teams for his alma mater. e Louis Brian Piccolo, 1943-1970. He was one of Wake Forest's greatest run- 111·rs, an All-American running back in ··ullege, and later a member of the ''l1icago Bears. But he is best loved for l1is courage during his tragic fight against 1·:1ncer. e Douglas C. "Peahead" Walker, 1899- 1 '.170. He was perhaps the most colorful /, · id football coach the Deacons ever h.u l , and without a doubt the most sue• • ··ssful, with an overall 77-51-6 record 1 .. r his 14 years. • James H. Weaver, 1903-1970. An out• ·.l .inding athletic administrator, he ,·,.:H'hed Deacon football for four years, . ·-··•·ved as athletic director for 18 years, rn:tched the golf team that included Mrs. Greason, Mrs. Piccolo, J\1rs. Walker. J\1rs. Weauer, with escorts 1\ rnold Palmer, and eventually became 11 •, · first commissioner of the Atlantic Plans are underway for a Wall of I ·,•:1st Conference. Fame in the W. N. Reynolds Gym• These outstanding figures in Wake nasium, to house mementoes and pic• /·'.,rest athletics became the first members tures of the Hall of Fame members. The "' the new Wake Forest Sports Hall of Wall of Fame will become a reality when l .: .une during halftime ceremonies at the funds are secured from alumni and I Iomecoming football game. Their wives friends. Checks should be made payable .. ...-1·pted the awards for their late hus• to the Wake Forest University Wall of lo1111ds. Fame.

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t has been more than fifty years since Douglas Clyde Throughout the Walker regime, from 1937 until 1950, the "Peahead" Walker paced the sidelines at a Wake Forest Deacons built a solid reputation as "giant killers" by beating football game, snapping at players and officials, and exhorting some of the nation's most powerful teams. Wake Forest teams his team to play harder and smarter. Since those memorable were highly regarded for their devastating blocking and tackling days, the legend of the colorful, dynamic coach-the most and their relentless pursuit of victory. successful in Deacon history-has been kept alive by old grads "Win or lose, you didn't feel like going out dancing after and former players, all of whom have a never-ending reper• playing a Peahead-coached team," said former N. C. State play• toire of Peahead stories. er Bill Thompson."! went home and soaked for ho~s in a tub Walker, a short, stocky fireplug of a man, was widely known of hot water to ease the pain of my bruises" Walker compiled for his flashy dress, his spicy tongue, his toughness, and his a 77-5 l -6 record during his fourteen years at Wake Forest. His ability to turn out strong, well-coached football teams that best seasons were 8-1 in 1944 and 7-3 in 1939 and 1940. The blocked and tackled like the demons for whom they were Deacons had six wins in 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1950. His named. A complex man who was sometimes controversial, he teams were under .500 on only four occasions. Along the way could be as funny as a stand-up comedian or as ill-tempered as there were two bowl games.The 1946 team won the inaugural a wounded animal, yet he was known for his sensitivity off the Gator Bowl, beating South Carolina 26-14, while the 1950 field. His slow, Southern drawl was best described as a half• squad lost 20- 7 to Baylor in Birmingham's Dixie Bowl. grunt, half-snarl, and his biting, sarcastic barbs could sting an The game most fans remember came in 1947 when Wake elephant's hide. When he yelled, which he did frequently at Forest knocked off a nationally ranked Tennessee team 19-6 in mistake-prone players, the earth shook. Knoxville, stunning the Volunteers with their only loss of the

30 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Cal ed on the carpet by Preside t Th rman Ki chin af er complaints by o fended

observers, Wa ker drawle I "Aw, Dr. Ki chin. am to a ootball coach is like amen o a preacher."

year. Top-ranked Boston College and others also fell to an Walker came to Wake Forest in 1937 to take over from under-manned Deacon squad that wouldn't be denied. Coach James Weaver. Under Weaver, who became athletics Walker, a rotund 5-feet-6, came along during an era of director, the Deacons struggled, winning only ten games, losing hard-nosed, demanding football coaches who were renowned twenty-three and tying one in four years. Previously, Walker for their tough competitiveness, brutal practices, and constant had coached for one year at Atlantic Christian (8-1) and cap• emphasis on fundamentals. Bear Bryant at Texas A&M and tured statewide attention by turning Elon into a small-college Alabama, Clemson's Frank Howard, Georgia's Wally Butts, power during his ten-year tenure, compiling a 51-37-2 record. Duke's Wallace Wade, and Tennessee's Bob Neyland were A three-sports star at Howard College, the Alabama native typical "old school" coaches whose philosophy centered around came to North Carolina to play professional baseball and man• discipline, conditioning, long, hard practices, verbal abuse, and age in the old Coastal Plains League. A fiery shortstop, he punishing drills. They strived for-and achieved-a "fear fac• joked that he once had been traded to another team for a tor" among their players. country ham and a hound dog. The talented Walker also "I was scared to death of Coach Walker," said Hall of Fame became a scout for the New York Yankees and continued in that quarterback Dickie Davis (' 52). "I knew he would kill me if I role after he began coaching. made a mistake or didn't play well, so I busted my butt day At Wake Forest he quickly became known for his jovial per• after day to keep him off my back. He was a perfectionist, hard sonality and his highly guarded privacy off the field, and for his and fast, and would accept nothing less." martinet, profane demeanor on the field. Practices often fea• "Our practices were seldom fun," said end Jim Duncan ('49) tured vicious two-on-one and "gangsome" drills for discipli• of Sunset Beach, North Carolina, an all-time Deacon great. "It nary reasons. "He was tough as nails," said Bill Eutsler ('40) of was always serious business. Most days we worked until after Cheraw, South Carolina, who went on to become one of dark running plays a hundred times and blocking and tackling North Carolina's most successful high school coaches. until we ached all over. We had more injuries in practice than "Football was his life, and he expected it to be yours, too. We we ever had in games." stressed fundamentals constantly. Peahead's success came from Both Davis and Duncan say that Walker was prone to "run excellent recruiting, the ability to teach blocking, tackling, and off" the borderline player who didn't have the talent or the kicking, and from demanding one hundred percent from every willpower to tough it out. "We started practice one year with player on the team. The players didn't necessarily like him but about one hundred twenty players," Duncan said, "and lost they respected him and went all out to win." three or four guys a day. Later that year we looked at the start• While some of the players resented his militaristic style ing backfields of Georgia Tech, Auburn, and Alabama and each and his verbal jabs, the news media loved him. Because of his had players that had started off the year at Wake Forest." unusual humor and dedication to the game, Peahead became

SEPTEMBER 2003 31 Though every player has countless Peahead stories, probably the best known is his comment to the team physician who rush d over to t II him t at a player wasn't breathing. "Hell, you're a doctor; make him breathe."

immensely popular with sportswriters around the nation. "He quarters in Gore Gymnasium. When he wanted nightlife, he was a unique individual, a genuine character," said Furman would drive his Cadillac to Raleigh for an evening on the town. Bisher, the Atlanta Journal columnist who covered sports for Despite his success both on and off the field, Walker occa• the Charlotte News in those days. "He was witty, feisty, droll, sionally wound up in hot water with the Wake Forest adminis• and quotable, and he never made excuses." tration and the Baptist community because of his coaching Walker and Clemson's Howard, who was also from tactics and his liberal use of profanity during football practices. Alabama, managed to stay in the limelight throughout the years Called on the carpet by college President Thurman Kitchin after with their frequent verbal attacks, swapping insults that the complaints by offended observers, Walker drawled, "Aw, Dr. media relished, even though the so-called "feud" was for pub• Kitchin. Damn to a football coach is like amen to a preacher." licity purposes only. "I know now why Mrs. Howard always In addition to his salty vocabulary, Walker was also known traveled with Frank," Peahead announced to the press. "He's so for hanging demeaning titles on his players. "I was Hollow ugly she doesn't want to kiss him goodbye." Brain," said Davis, "and Nub Smith was Amoeba Brain, Ed Howard would come back the following day with a snide Butler was Frankenstein, and others were know; as Skinny remark that would amuse readers. "Don't listen to Peahead," Legs, Butterfingers, and what have you." And his caustic remarks he would warn, "because he's uncouth. And you can tell him I could sting. A receiver, known for his voracious appetite, dropped said that because he's so dumb he doesn't know what uncouth a ball in practice and Peahead yelled at him, "You would. have means." caught the damn thing if it had been something to eat." Walker and Howard were the area's most popular banquet Though his humor seldom crept into games, Walker-. speakers and regaled audiences with their backhanded slaps, enjoyed picking on Willis "Doc" Murphrey (' 5 2, JD '57), from laughable one-liners, and ribald routines. Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, a benchwarmer who played In addition to his humor, Walker was a flashy dresser who sparingly but who later became a popular sports figure in his was well-known for his dark shirts, loud, colorful ties, jaunty own right. Once at a home game, with the Deacons well ahead fedoras, and gaudy sports jackets. Fans came to see what on the scoreboard, the fans started yelling, "We want Peahead would wear and often sent him the boldest neckties Murphrey, we want Murphrey." Suddenly, Peahead turned to they could find. At one time the Deacon coach had more than the bench and yelled Doc's name. Thinking he was going into a hundred neon-bright ties in his collection. He was also a the game, Murphrey grabbed his helmet and ran enthusiastical• private man who was divorced and lived in small bachelor ly toward the coach. "Murphrey," he drawled, "go sit in the stands. I think your friends want you up there."

32 WAKE foREST MAGAZINE Nick Sacrinity and Peahead Walker, the 'Deacon Brains'

Several years later, the twosome ran into each other in the Walker, who picked up his nickname when he was eleven, lobby of the old Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh. "What are you died in July of 1970 at the age of seventy-one after a year of doing here, Murphrey?"Walker snarled. "Coach, you won't declining health. Clemson's Howard was crushed. "There will believe this but I was recently elected to the General Assembly," never be anyone like him," he said, echoing the sentiments of Murphrey replied. Stunned, Walker stalked off abruptly, mut• Wallace Wade, the retired Duke coach, Chuck Erickson of tering aloud: "God save the State of North Carolina." Carolina, and others who crowded Charlotte's Christ Though every player has countless Peahead stories, probably Episcopal Church for the funeral. the best known is his comment to the team physician who Despite his iron hand, his former players, to a man, take rushed over to tell him that a player wasn't breathing. "Hell, pride in having played for one of the toughest coaches of all you're a doctor; make him breathe." time. In a recent obituary for former player Ed Karp us (' 50), The colorful coach's career at Wake Forest ended in 1950 it was reported that ''he played football for Peahead Walker at following a disagreement with President Harold W Tribble, Wake Forest." It was the ultimate accomplishment. who had just been named to succeed Kitchin. After a 6-1-2 "He made me a better man," said former end Ed Hoey ('49) season, Walker asked for a s 1,000 a year raise, from S8,000 to of University Park, Florida, "and I am proud to have played for $9,000. When the increase was not approved, the popular him. His coaching played a key role in my life and my business coach resigned and accepted an assistant's job at Yale under his career, and I will always be grateful to him. What's more, off longtime friend Herman Hickman. the field he was a caring, compassionate man with a heart as After a year at Yale, the coach took over as head coach of big as his belly." Montreal in the Canadian League and met with instant success And Dickie Davis, Bill Eutsler, Jim Duncan, and Dave after bringing in three of his former Deacon stars, pass-catch• Harris ('46) agreed. "For those of us who played for him, it ing whiz John "Red" O'Quinn ('49, MA '50), guard Ray Cicia was an experience we could never forget. He was as tough as ('49), and tackle Jim Staton ('51). In eight years, he won four they come, but he enriched our lives," said Harris for the division titles before returning to North Carolina to scout for group. "We are a proud bunch." the New York Giants. He settled in Charlotte with his beloved wife, Flonnie, and was a mainstay on the banquet circuit.

SEPTEMBER 2003 33 Walker's watchword is physical condition, and he drives his men hard. Here he demonstrates how to throw a block and make it stick.

How a gridiron Falstaff named Peahead Walker has Football's Demon Deacon won a reputation as "the Dixie giant killer" by coaching the By, COLLIE SMALL Baptists of tiny Wake Forest to some surprising victories.

EAHEAD WALKER, the Dixie giant killer, The wisdom of this was impressed upon him by was reminiscing recently and fell to discussing Dr. Thurman Kitchin, president of Wake Forest, P the monstrous stories that have grown qp when Peahead arrived as football coach ten years Duke, unfortunately, is another matter altogether, about rum during IDS proprietorship of football at ago this fall. but Peabead, though he takes nothing away from little Wake Forest College, North Carolina. The "Mr. Walker," said Doctor Kitchin decorously, Wallace Wade, the Duke coach, feels that Wade stumpy Falstaff was in a reflective mood as he carefully avoiding the name "Peahead," "I don't sometimes resorts to sorcery to beat him. leaned back in his swivel chair, swinging bis bandy know that I'm in favor of football. But if we are When Wake Forest finally beat Duke, in 1942, legs and contemplating the maples and magnolia going to play it, I want to play it well. Just remem• Peahead was almost overcome with elation. Grab• trees outside ms office window. ber that tills is a Baptist school and that you are bing a trophy that was to be awarded to the most "There have been some pretty good stories," coaching in a state where the Baptists are outnum• improved player of the year, he scrambled upstairs he conceded. "And they were all true. Except one. bered only by the English sparrow." to ms living quarters over the gymnasium and put That one," be said proudly, "won me the liar's Peahead promised to remember, and the results thetrophy on ms chiffonier. It still has not been championship of the Atlanta Touchdown Club." have been noteworthy. Wake Forest, an improbable awarded or even inscribed. "I improved more than Peahead beamed, then shook ms head sadly. "I bad pebble set among such Southern Conference boul• they did," he said, referring to his players. to promise never to tell it again. A newspaper fellow ders as Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina Until 1942, Duke had been handling Wake Forest down there said if it ever got printed, somebody State, has blossomed into a football power far out rather roughly, thwacking the Deacons once, in was going to lose his second-cla-ss mailing of proportion to its enrollment of some 1600 stu• 1937, Peahead's first year, to the tune of 67--0. privileges." dents. North Carolina has managed to beat Wake Peahead called down a bitter curse on the head of More is the pity that the world will never laugh Forest only twice since 1939. North Carolina State Wallace Wade, and swore his revenge. The next with Peahead in ms greatest triumph. However, he has suffered similar indignities, winning only twice year be nearly upset Duke's powerful, undefeated, is undaunted. The legend of Peahead Walker is still since 1937 and escaping in 1942 with a scoreless tie. untied and unscored-on Rose Bowl team, losing a growing, and all of it, as he says himself, is true. Last year, Tennessee and Boston College, among squeaker, 7-0. Undismayed, be continued to bide It has to be. Wake Forest is a Baptist college, and others, were rudely dumped by Peahead's Deacons. his time, and, in 1942, after five years of scheming, Peahead is also a Baptist and is therefore not dis• he finally confounded the Blue Devils for the first posed to take unnecessary chances with his job. PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL SHROUT time, 20-7. After the game be was reluctant to divulge how he had wrought this miracle, but it lating them on their victory. "Nice going," he said, developed later that he had used "psychology." shaking hands with Buddy Hackman: "Great Pacing the dressing room before the game, Pea• game," he said to Gene McEver, shaking hands head was worried and fretful. The players watched again. To Bobby Dodd, he again extended his hand him nervously, waiting for him to say something, and said, "Fine work, Dodd." but he kept on walking. Finally the team started Hickman, watching the ceremony, saw Neyland for the door. drawing closer. Wearily he dragged himself to his "Boys," Peahead suddenly said, "I don't expect feet and began wiping his muddy, hamlike hands you to win this one for me. But the way things are, on his jersey. Finally, Neyland drew abreast of the Japs are sure to kill you if you don't get killed Hickman and stopped. The big sophomore put out today against Duke. I've been thinking it over, his hand. Neyland ignored it. and my advice is to go out there and get killed right "What was the matter with you today, Hick• away." man?" he asked. Despite the sweetness of the win over Duke, how• In relating this story, Peahead is inclined to go ever, Peahead's greatest victory came last year off into paroxysms of laughter while his round little when Wake Forest rose up and smote Gen. Robert stomach dances like jelly and his hands flail the air Neyland's mighty Tennessee team, 19-6. Tennessee helplessly. With regard to his own victory over was undefeated before the Wake Forest game and, Tennessee, however, he is more serious. in fact, was ranked fourth in the country. Wake One afternoon last summer, in fact, he was run• Forest stunned the entire nation with its triumph ning off pictures of the game and reveling once over the Vols, and an irreverent public-address again in his triumph over Neyland when he noted announcer·at another game in the South that day that a Wake Forest halfback had missed an easy was moved to remark in booming tones to the thou• block. sands.in the stadium, "At Knoxville, General Ney• "He missed his man! " Peahead roared, forget• land has just been reduced to the rank of buck ting momentarily that he was watching a movie. private." "Wait until I get my hands on that boy!" This touch of sarcasm was attributed later to Pea• "What are you going to do?" someone asked. head, who went to great pains to deny that he had Peahead suddenly looked foolishly crestfallen. said anything of the kind. However, it is no secret "Nothing," he admitted. "I forgot he graduated." that he was highly pleased with his success against Last season, unfortunately, Wake Forest came a Neyland, who is virtually unbeatable in Knoxville. cropper against all three of its main rivals, Duke, The two coaches are not bosom companions in any North Carolina and North Carolina State. Yet, case, mostly because Neyland is cool and aloof, and with a few breaks, the Deacons might have gone Peahead is something of a clown who delights in undefeated. They fumbled the Duke and State needling Neyland with a story involving Herman games away, and against North Carolina were the Hickman, Tennessee's erstwhile "one-man riot" victims of some heinous misfortunes. and now line coach at Army. One occasion saw a Wake Forest end sliding off According to Peahead, Neyland developed an the back of a North Carolina passer as though the unaccountable phobia about sophomore players a latter were greased, and the passer thereupon number of years ago but, through the stress of cir• tossed a long touchdown aerial. In another fatal cumstance, was forced to play Hickman against moment, a Wake Forest back was speeding for the Auburn one year, even though Hickman was a goal line with no one in front of him when he suc• sophomore. Neyland was dubious, but he had no cumbed to the temptation to peek over his shoulder. choice, and so Hickman was in the line-up. Playing His pursuers promptly picked up the one step in the mud, he was all over the field, blocking, necessary to tackle him. Peahead, though he is the tackling and generally carrying the entire team on epitome of serenity during a game, nearly fell off his broad back. Finally, with one last effort, the the bench in disgust. giant Hickman blocked an Auburn punt and scored This year, as usual, the Wake Forest team is king• the touchdown that won the game for Tennessee, 7-0. size and appears to have been recruited from the After the game, in the dressing room, Neyland Chicago stockyards. Peahead likes nothing so much Once a svelte 150 pounds, Walker now tops 200, moved through the cluster of players, congratu- as size in his football players, and Wallace Butts, hut is still able to show the boys how it is done.

the Georgia coach, once complained that Peahead's linemen were so big there wasn't room enough on a standard football field to get them lined up properly. '' One of his tackles this year weighs 290 pounds and wears a size-8 Ys helmet, which cost fifty dollars, since it had to be specially made. Peahead there• upon received a letter from the curious manufac• turer, asking him if he ordered his uniforms first and then got the players to fit them, or vice versa. Vice versa, Peahead assured him, though conceding that it sometimes looked the other way around. What Peahead wanted more than anything this year was a tailback who could run like the wind, pass like a demon and otherwise perform feats of superhuman strength and endurance. Peahead ranged as far north as Connecticut in his search, but it proved fruitless. An uncommon number of players on the Wake Forest squad are Northerners. The North is fertile territory for Peahead, who makes several expedi• tions a year in quest of talent, and spreads the gos• pel of Wake Forest. Not long ago he was checking this year's roster for the home states of his players when he was struck suddenly by the unusual num• ber of Northerners on the team. "Thank God," Peahead said fervently, "for Pennsylvania." Actually, since Peahead operates in a conference with liberal views on subsidization, his player prob• lem is not too great. Occasionally, however, he loses a boy to one of the larger schools near by, such as Duke, North Carolina or North Carolina State, and when this happens, Peahead is properly of• Fairiy quret on the bench during a game, Wake Forest's coach saves his real explosions for the prac• fended. Unfortunately, Wake Forest College is tice field, where he blows his top so sulphurously that visiting Baptists are not encouraged to attend. located in Wake Forest, (Continued on Page 171) 33 171

but composed; she looked right back "Please, Dora. ~ • • Yes, it all at her sister and said, "Well, Myra?" works out very well. You see, I have Because, after all, a married lady with decided to accept a position, suggested a husband is in a better position than to me by Sue Parker, investigating in• any widow. Dora said, "I know this digent cases for the County Welfare must be a great shock to you, Myra, Board. I -- What was that, Mr. and I'm sorry we . . . acted in your Weston?" absence. But it seemed-well, ad• "I-uh-I said, you'll help the in• visable. And I do hope you'll forgive digent cases." us, because I'm terribly happy and I "Oh. That is not quite what I want you to be, for me." She paused thought you said. . . . At any rate, hopefully. Myra was silent. "Well," the work will occupy all my time. It said Dora, sighing, "I might as well will no longer be possible for me to give say the rest and get it over. We'll be attention to the household, as I have living at Mr. Wes--at Fred's ranch, done in the past. Of course, I shall of course. And we have asked Julie to hire a housekeeper to do the actual come live with us. And-and that's all." work, but the planning, the super• Myra knew her defeat then, and vision --" She turned and addressed accepted it. But she was not van• Julie directly. "I hope-I really do quished. The flag still flew. She crossed hope that you might be willing to stay the room to her favorite rocker, sat on here, and manage my-our home. I down slowly and removed her gloves. think it would not interfere with your Her eyes turned thoughtfully to Julie. school work or-ah-other activities. She knew perfectly well that Julie, Would you consider doing that, my somehow, had engineered the whole dear?" deal; and yet, strangely, she felt no Julie considered it. She said tenta• resentment. On the contrary, she tively, "There's just one thing. My found herself liking Julie. The girl had name is 'Zhjulie,' Aunt Myra?" none of the Gresham look-her French "Of course," said Aunt Myra. mother, no doubt-but she had char• "Zhjulie. By all means." acter. Gresham character. And "Well, then," said Julie, with a brains-Gresham brains. If she were happy little sigh, "I would love to stay brought up properly -- here with you and manage the house, "I cannot deny," said Myra, "that and I'm sure we'll get along together I am surprised. However, on the whole, perfectly, on account of we understand I am not displeased." each other." She went over and kissed "Oh, Myra!" Dora exclaimed joy• her Aunt Myra warmly and even ad• ously. miringly. THE END

and that a mysterious lady from Con• FOOTBALL'S necticut actually furnished the funds DEMON DEACON for the church. When Herman Hickman was line (Continued from Page 33) coach at North Carolina State, the two coaches were engaged in a never-ending North Carolina, a town of 2000 that scramble for all players missed by offers only two movie houses for diver• Duke and North Carolina. One after• sion, and Peahead's problem is to keep noon, Hickman, who is Peahead's best his players from discovering the urban friend, dropped in for a friendly visit. delights available to players at schools During the conversation he began talk• in larger cities. ing about a new tackle at State. To Top Management: The curriculum at Wake Forest, "The best ever," Hickman said hap• moreover, is not likely to appeal to a pily. "I never saw a boy who could do great many football players, since it so much so well. He's a cinch to be All• THIS STUDY IS FOR YOU concentrates on theology, law and med• American. Wait until you see him." icine. However, those players who ob• Peahead listened miserably. Finally IT'S READY!-The new fact-packed brochure that tells why Cleveland is ject to college life in a small, sleepy, he could contain himself no longer. tree-shaded village will shortly be ap• "Who," he asked, "is this boy that's the best location in the nation for Management Headquarters for many peased. Wake Forest is scheduled to so good?" businesses and industries. pack up and move sometime within the Hickman, positive that he had him next few years to Winston-Salem, a sewed up for State, said confidently, GET YOUR COPY NOW-Comprehensive, concise, authoritative, sixteen bustling city of some 80,000, under the "Pat Preston, from the Mills Home illustrated pages of the latest information about Cleveland's time-saving, terms of an arrangement with the R. J. Orphanage.'' Reynolds Foundation, which is under• Peahead jumped as though he had travel-saving, cost-saving advantages for management. Up-to-date infor- writing the move. been shot. "Hickman," he said men• mation about transportation communications building sites ... Several years ago, newspaper photog• acingly, "speak softly when you speak management services available living conditions and the complete, raphers called at Wake Forest to photo• of Preston." graph the squad in preseason workouts, "Why?" Hickman asked in surprise. confidential Location Engineering Service provided without charge by and Peahead had to lock most of the "Preston is upstllrs right now," The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. team in the basement of the gymnasium Peahead said. "He lives with me and until the cameramen had gone. He we're like father and son. I don't want CALL, WRITE OR WIRE, Development Division, Robert C. Hienton, had, it appears, neglected to register him to hear you raving about him Director, for your copy of this important new study for management• some of the players in school, and he like that. It might give him the big did not want Wallace Wade to see head." and it will be sent to you free by return mail. their pictures in the paper before he Preston, now a guard with the had them safely enrolled as Wake Chicago Bears, played four years at Forest students. Peahead cannot stand Wake Forest, and Hickman has never the sight of a stolen football player, fully recovered from the shock. especially when he turns up at Now forty-seven years old, Peahead Duke. was a sylphlike 150 pounds when he ONLY CLEVELAND, on the south shore -Complete management services, among of Lake Erie, offers chis combination of the nation's best-financial, business. law, engineering, advertising, research. library On the other hand, he has been ac• played football in college,but the inter• superior advantages for management vening years have blown him up to and ocher. cused himself of going to unusual headquarters: -A large reservoir of experienced business, lengths to lure players to Wake Forest. more than 200. The result is that he -Ac the Market and Production Center of technical and office workers. Once, when a player named John Po• now looks remarkably like the late America. -Excellent living and cultural environment lanski came down to Wake Forest from W. C. Fields, particularly since he has -Seventy percent of U. S. manufacturing, in a progressive, cooperative community. 47 major markets and 75,000,000 people -Favorable tax structure (no state income Buffalo, New York, Peahead was sus• the same short coupling, topped off within 500 miles. cax). pected of building a Catholic church with a face like a tossed salad. He talks -Superlative transportation and cornmuni• -Numerous ideal sites for modern office cations. buildings in the downtown area. just to accommodate Polanski. It was so slowly it has been suggested he true that Polanski arrived the . same should start practice two weeks early, year the church was built, but Peahead so that he can say everything he wants insists that it was a mere coincidence to say to the squad before the season THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY 11 r U B LI C SQ UAR E • CHERRY4200 CLEVELAND 1, OHIO Copyright 1947 The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company 172 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 8, 1947 opens. Peahead also is inclined to puff · noon, with Manager George Stallings and blow if forced to move quickly, in the room above, Peahead mimicked and he boasts one of the world's him indelicately, and Stallings heard most preposterous collections of hand- him through a hole in the floor. Stal- painted ties. lings immediately came downstairs. SAVEMOllEY Recently, decked out in his custom- "Peahead," he said grimly, "I'm go- arily blinding raiment, he drove past ing to send you so far into the bushes the Wake Forest gymnasium in his you'll need twenty-five cents to mail a automobile, one of those that appear to post card out." Peahead promptly consist mostly of glass. landed in the Virginia League, with .fAVE FLOOllS "There," said Jim Weaver, the ath- Norfolk. letic director, "goes the bullfrog on his While he was still languishing in roller skates." Norfolk, he consummated a practical with this Peahead is a prodigious trencher- joke that still makes him shudder. A man, and he and Hickman, who is also wide-eyed youngster had come to Pea• a true knight of the banquet table, head to ask for a tryout, and Peahead thrifty, long-lasting once consumed fourteen lobsters at a invited him into the basement of his single sitting, after which they were hotel, where he asked him to demon• obliged to lie on their host's floor until strate his prowess at sliding . . . on a FLOOR RUNNER the effects had worn off. Peahead has cement floor. After the eager youth never had a tooth pulled or even filled, had filled both legs with "strawber• and it is a fairly unnerving experience ries" and other contusions, Peahead to watch him eat quail or other small took him back upstairs to weigh him. birds, since he enjoys eating the bones Looking at the needle on the scales, he and listening to the crunching sound. clucked sympathetically. Peahead was born in Ensley, Ala- "Dear me," Peahead said solemnly, bama, a suburb of Birmingham, and "you're three pounds underweight. was christened Douglas Clyde Walker. You may not know it, but baseball is However, at the age of eleven, he ac- just like the Navy-so much weight quired the name, "Peahead," and he for so much height. The thing for you has been known as "Peahead" Walker to do is to get about a dozen bananas ever since. and drink two quarts of buttermilk. Peahead started college at Birming- Then come back for a new weigh-in." ham Southern, but was left stranded Peahead's gullible protege immedi• when World War I broke out and ately repaired to a near-by cafe to carry Birmingham Southern gave up football. out instructions, while Peahead watched There then followed an eccentric period from across the street. The boy was in in which he kept enrolling in different therestaurant for more than an hour, colleges to play football, only to have consuming bananas and buttermilk, them drop the] sport shortly after his when Peahead decided to investigate. arrival. In this manner, he put in He had just stepped off the curb to time at Howard, Vanderbilt, Wake cross over to the cafe when the am• Forest and Howard again. bulance pulled up and carried the Upon graduation he coached high- young man away to the hospital. For• school football in the fall and played tunately, he recovered. professional baseball in the summer. Even as a semipro fresh out of col• He also taught chemistry and physics lege, Peahead demonstrated that he as part of his high-school coaching job. had an unusually grisly sense of Once he was asked how much he knew humor. At one town where he played about the subjects. briefly, the manager had a wooden leg BIRD "I don't have to know anything," he and a habit of not paying the players said. "I have the book open and they as specified in their contracts. When don't." he failed to pay Peahead seventy dol- RUBBERllKE RUNNER Peahead's baseball career was as lars for two weeks' play, Peahead un• PATENTED NON-RUBBER CONSTRUCTION bizarre as his football career. A short- latched his screen door with a pocket• stop, he never emerged from the knife one night, entered the manager's minors, shuttling instead among the bedroom, and quietly stole his leg. The Virginia, the International, the New next morning he sent a small boy to York-Penn and the Three-Eye leagues. the manager, offering him his leg in re• MAKES SLIPPERY FLOORS SAFER The high spot of his baseball career turn for the seventy dollars. The man• came when he was sent to Rochester, ager reluctantly sent the money; in the International League, but he Peahead returned the leg and moved stayed only long enough for a cup of on to other fields. coffee, as the saying goes. One after- (Continued on Page 174)

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(Continued from Page 172) Peahead concluded his active"base• Peahead's faith in his fellowmen suf• ball career as manager of the now fered a shattering blow even before his defunct Snow Hill, North Carolina, experience with the baseball manager. club of the Coastal Plain League. Snow When he was at Howard College, he Hill, a hamlet of perhaps 1000 persons, purchased a new suit for twenty dol• was the smallest franchise in organized lars, the chief virtue of which was that baseball. This naturally made Peahead it changed colors under varying degrees the least important manager in base• of sunlight, and he was understandably ball, and he wisely gave up the game in enchanted by it. When a friend, a favor of football. minister's son, asked to borrow it for His first head-coaching job was at a Saturday-night date, Peahead con• Atlantic Christian College, in Wilson, sented with the understanding that it North Carolina, in 1926. The next would be returned by early Monday year he went to Elon Collegeand stayed morning, inasmuch as Peahead was for ten years, during which time he won leaving town on an early train. When sixty-seven games, lost twenty and tied erfonnanc Monday morning dawned, however, three. Wallace Wade recommended the errant friend had flownthe coop,and him for Wake Forest in 1937, and he Peahead set off sadly without his suit. has been there ever since, winning He never saw it again, but some fifty-five, losing thirty-six and tying years later, in Florida, he was taking a four. Sunday-morning stroll after a football Wake Forest was not dismayed by game the day before when he noticed a the manpower shortage during the war goes up familiar name on the registry outside a years and continued to play football. church. Burning with new indignation, Peahead had only one assistant, Mur• he went inside just as his old pal ray Greason, who spent much of his was inviting visitors to step up and time scouting, and together they ran join the congregation officially. Pea• the whole show. An hour before the • head reacted with alacrity, and when 1944 Duke game, Peahead was selling the minister looked down at his flock, tickets. Yet, in the four years that he ID Peahead was at the rail. was so painfully shorthanded, the "Where's my suit?" Peahead hissed. Deacons won twenty-three and lost "Bh-h-h," the minister replied. only eleven, when, considering their "Where's my suit?" Peahead re- manpower problems, they should have peated doggedly. lost them all. Faced with an obviously intolerable Peahead's teams use the.single-wing situation, the minister dismissed the attack unvaryingly, and, though there congregation and faced the outraged have been complaints that Wake For• Peahead. . To the Iatter's everlasting est, like Duke, plays essentially dull dismay, he talked Peahead out of any football, Peahead has obviously had settlement. Peahead, however, still has high success with the system. The T not forgiven him. Recently, he was formation, so much in vogue the past discussing the incident and working few years, has no great fascination for himself up to a dangerous pitch when him, but he is continually asked why he waved his hands helplessly in a he hasn't switched to it, like so many gesture of defeat and said, "Well, he other coaches. Peahead fears he will wasn't a Baptist, anyway." (Continued on Page 176)

The Naughty Tanker

A P 0 S T W A R A N E C D 0 T E

HE American tanker, S. S. Then a belated blinker signal TFive Forks, was two days out cut across the dusk from the sub• of Calcutta when our forward gun marine, which was now less than turret reported a submarine sur• a mile away. The signalmanon the faced several miles off the port bridge copied the messagewhil e the bow. Before leaving Calcutta, we captain waited anxiously at his had been notified that British sub• side. When he finished writing it marines were in the area, and that on a piece of paper, the signalman Replace in Sets with Genuine we should make positive identifica• paused. tion before opening fire on any "Well, man!" the captain said sub sighted. So, as we approached impatiently. "What is it? What the strange craft, everyone on does it say?" board nervously asked himself the The signalman, shakinghis head, question, ee Friend or foe?" handed him the message. On it, FEDERAL-MOGUL The tension was heightened following the identification letters when the armed-guard officer of a British submarine, were the Oil-Control Bearings shouted orders to have all guns words: "Naughty, naughty. trained on the submarine, and to Mustn't point guns." stand by for action. -JAMES V. SHANNON, JR. 176 THE SATURl)AY EVENING POST November 8. 191i

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As a' writer ~1;d close personal;~.,1 man• 1 t~ spend his final days in bed. horribly painted ties, scampered off i';;;~~ci his tag aside as an insult to 1frlend, Bob Quine)' followed the~ But he was a genuine character and ·.to Yale, where he became the top his position. · . t antic career of Peahead Walker for I 1 the sports world will miss him." assistant to the legendary Herman Pat and the coach walked -side j.more than 20 years. No_w assoclated;~1- Douglas Clyde Walker would Hickman. Two Southern boys In by side down ,the path to the field : with· radio station ·:WAYS In:.·~·· have enjoyed the conversation. He the Ivy League. Peahead's coaching gate and the keeper held 11p a hand / Charlotte, Mr. Quincy ·was ·for,}' :\was receptive to praise and he could tactics changed. as Peuhead sought to enter. · {many years sports· editor of, the;.1 -.~tau~ when he. was on the receiving At Wake Forest, the Walker iron '"Where "s -your . tag?" he l Charlotte· News and .. .for sevrral:' .tend of .a joke. He and _Frank hand made practice a fearful event. demanded. . . ( years· was director . .oi sp.ortfi,, i:',Howard made a ·good living in .He raved and shouted and he used 'Tm the couch." said Peahead. ·· t publicity at the Un~v~~~ity here:·~· •a· ·.?f_f;~e~soninsul~ing one another.·. I language · that had the nearby "N.o tag.· no entrance~" said the f.. · :_. :·,~-, !:' Like the hme I went to see Bapti~t preachers kn~eli~g on the_ . ---.uniformed gt1ard. ' , · ,, ~ f;·· r. 11 By BOB QUINCY ·. · 1 Peahead when he was coaching at hour.. "Hell. man. I got a game to play. t' ,- ·, · ·- !·,". :1Montreal," recalled Howard. "I "He was a great man,'1 ·'I'm the coach:· Peahead looked at. ~ _ The workmen were·sweatitig and:. istayed, at the· Queen Elizabeth remembers Pat Geer, an end who · · Preston," "Tell this idiot who I nm !· shoveling the remaining piles of dry;' ,~Hotel. When I got out of the taxi - now lives in Satiford, "but he was P111:: ' ' · J· red clay which .-closed Peahead ·t:with my ·baggage, Peahold told the General Patton on the field. He •·.~ Preston wore a blank expression. ·1 ~- .Walker's grave. The family had been' 1 reporters· I took one look at the . made us nm laps like we were He said softly. "I ·ve never seen thut I driven away in one of those long ~doorman, shoo)< his hand and said, - trying· to break the four-minute fellmv bl'f.ore. sir." · · {~:black_ limousines provi_ded for suc,lt.i~··.'Glrtd to ~1c~t,you, Princ;e Phillip!'_ mile. If we slowed down he'd th(ow : ·.. ·1 Peuhead eniptetl timl Piit quickly .. occasions. _ · -- · .·· Ji:i ;; Now, I d1dn .t. say anything of the .rocks at us." , Clime to the rescue. He got Walker t ·. Paul Bryant, who is called Bear· .·,sort," Howardl smiled. "I was too The success Walker enjoyed at ; inside but, Pculmtd snorted until r' in newspaper accounts of his deeds_t5 awed by that fellow's unifonn. He, Baptist Hollow came from desire . game time:·. . : at the .University of Alabama, ·was~,- looked. more like a king than a and determination. The Wake . , Preston; who mimics Wnlkcr us I riot in a mood ~o second-guess. Hei·f prince." ' '· .· ' ' Forest squad seldom had more than .. , . ~ allowed , no cJne · should_ have 1{ Looking back on the era of 36 men able to suit up They.were .' no o~e else c~n, ·went to see his old I complaints when the good Lord 11 Peahead Walker is something like in shape or they didn't play :He was' '.coach a couple of weeks before the ~ called if he had lived a life similat ,;·.concocting a piece of fiction. He able to match such powers as Duke ' end came. Peahead w11s propped up I to that of his old friend/ : . ; ;r,;: .. twas to college football Jn the late. and Carolina (the Justice years) and In bed and Pat and Herb Cline m1d . "Peahead did a bit of everything ~~ I 930's and l 940's . what Vince -Tennessee. The "giant killer,''. they I Pat Geer and Harry Clark knew the in his time," mused the Bear, who r Lombardi is to the professlonnl called him: · . circumstances. -They joked and told [• .. ' is tall, gaunt and : bronzed. "Hi!·'~ game today. · He· was tough1 Peahead snorted and fumed. stories' and Peahead seemed to , . enjoyed life and people enjoyedt r: demanding, ii · monarch on a After a loss, it was easier for a ; · enjoy It. · ' · . ! him. He was -- 71.' That's a Jot pf :t football field. His players feared ·Jewish reporter to interview Nasser. 1 ' "Coach," said Preston; "yotl I ~ears. Death is not' to be take~ :t1?im but_they_respected,him.:' Peahead, whose face clouded like a never were one to give us pep talks, \ lightly, but some people ·are luckY. ~'·· He ·.was called by many 'red balloon, grunted his answers.· . but ldo you remember when we r ~o get more out of life, U:ian others: l'"Americ~·s bes! coachin~ barg~i.n" . Then he'd go up to his office in . played Duke Jn I 942. That WU the t.!_'eah_ead was one of them." . :· j"r -!!.. when -lie served Wake Forest Gori! l!yfu (wliete M hls

Dou1U.. Clyde (Pf!Ohead) Walker Peah~J_W~Jil~r: ·' ...... i, •. ·, : ., B.e~Tr'~.a.cl"-?~. :1Jarga~ ~n The. 'flio~e . Country .. / (Continued from page 1) }game;l walk into an elegant In another game which the . by 13 to O.' Peahcad tried not· to. ~restaurant and receive a standing Deacs had sewed up, the fans began show it, but he was elated. His team ':";,.o~ation. chanting for a ·little-used player . was made up .of a hand fol or, ;i:ln'~ He enjoyed visits by his Friends. we'll call Simpson. civilians and a larger group or V-12 , t Frank Howard and Wally Butts of "We want Simpson! We want and Marine players who were taking (~Georgia and Jim Tatum were.often Simpson!" special programs. · ' .. . .·i\risltors to Mont~eal. Peahead once' Peahead sent for Simpson and "We got in the dressing room '' !''o~dered escargot for Howard. Frank the boy tripped over a water bucket recalled Preston, "and Peahead ..~ loqked at the delicately prepared he was so eager. Advised Peahead: complimented us on a good first f snails and said,. "Pead head, you "Simpson, get the hell up in the half. Thnt was unusual, because he ·~ 111ay be paying the bill but you'll 'stands. They say they want you." never was one to powder- up '.Jo. never make me eat worms. They'd For the past eight years, Peahead anybody. Then he said: 'You boys ~h take the. sanitation rating away had lived in Charlotte with his have done real good but we have ::,from Oil}' cafe In South Carolina devoted. wife, Flonnie. lie scouted two more. quarters to play. Now r\.th~t;,tried. to pu!I something like for the New York Giants and there you all know how bad we want to .this. , • has never been a more astute judge r 1 beat those rich SOBs. "Now I'll just •/.~(·.Walker was a legend in his own of football talent. He worked until say this. Most of you ore in service j time. He seldom went to church, the very end. and you'll be going to Japan or to 1• .but he often is fingered as the Before he lapsed into ·a coma. Europe and you'll be in battle and ; person who established a Catholic, Peahead struggled out of bed at his

you'll see combat and a lot of you '. r. church In the little hamlet of Wake\. u p ar t m e n t 3 u d , weak and are going to get shot. Do you want ,t. !J9rest. to get shot and have; missed a •t:·~.:. There was no such church on heartbroken, foll to. the floor. He . chance to beat Duke?" .. · -. . .,t campus or in the town and whispered to his wife, "Leave me Peahead walked out of the' J Peahead's players (many of them · here; leave me here. I want to die in . dressing room. There was silence.· \i.Catholic and from the North) used my own room." ~ . "Hell," said the player next to J'an old railway· car as a chapel. A He fell near a wall decorated Preston, "I don't want to get killed '\'.priest from Raleigh would come with pennants and pictures of men "and not have beaten Duke." Wake ·~'over each Sunday and conduct the 'he admired most: Bryant, Butts, went out and roared to a 20 to 6 /'service. · 'Gen. Bob Neyland, Wallace Wade, _. victory. . -~;i'.f·. One morning a dowager. drove Frank Thomas, Jim Tatum, Red When Walker played Carolina, t., through the area and asked for a · O'Quinn and others. Near his head the fans always gave him a hard ,\'Catholic church. She was given .. was the first of a group of pennants time. One of the most notorious 'i ·directions to the railroad-and the which ascended the wall. A banner incidents came during the days of .:. dirty and littered car .. She was from Atlantic Christian, then Elon, Charlie Justice when Tom Fetzer, I' '.shocked. Later;she sent a check for followed by Wake Forest. A Y~Ie · now a dentist, tackled Choo Choo .~:;.. $ I00,000 to. est~blish 8 small bulldog. The Montreal Alouettes' near the sidelines and Charlie lot.church, which was duly built. The symbol. At the top was the New r appeared to be ready for Memorial .;..'story got around that Peahead had York Giants monogram. _ Hospital. ·~!·It' built for John Polanski,· a 1• Peahead Walker was buried a "Brutes, brutes," charged one of 'i·[ullback of destructive quality. week lo the day after the death of the fans. "Justice was out of '-;·''"Then there is the story of the ACC Commissioner Jim Weaver, the bounds and Peahead has his men : :'iecruitment of Bill George, a man he hud succeeded at Wake· piling on." · ·':.:.Southern Conference terror and Forest in 1937. Walker later shook his head. Said :? : later an all-pro linebacker for the Sing no sad songs for Peahead Peahead: "We played 'em four ~·' Bears. Peahead asked George down Walker. He lived the good life. But years and we were able to tackle ; , for a visit. He met him In Durham as Frank Howard vividly pointed · Justice once. And everybody raised :~."and was thrilled by the muscles on out: They don't make 'em like hell! You'd think they were were at ,~,,-the big fellow. Then Walker began Peahead anymore. . a tennis match." · ·.:~;thinking about the little campus Among the heaping of flowers ' At Montreal, the - French·~' '.and the old buildings at "old Wake and wreaths at the Walker grave was appropriated the. name of ~·!Forest." . I ,a /footb,all-shaped melange of "Tete-de-pois" for Pcahead (head (~:1.,1.1t ls told, perhaps with some flowers. An Inscription read: of the pea). But most. everyone ;,; Imagination, that Peahead drove "from the boys you made Into called hini Doug. He found a good rBill ·to the Duke campus ·and men." It presented positive proof _tailor and 'he _heaped all his (' Informed George that it was an that the character also knew how to flamboynnt shirts in a pile and f; extension · of the Wake Forest build character. burned them. lie walked the .streets f• educational program. The Duke of Mo.ntreal looking like a man of (chapel,· he said, was the Catholic distinction from Brooks Brothers. -~~cJmrch and drew admirers rtom all . He ckhod ili• Alouettes for ~over. Bill George Wa$ recruited, but . eight · yearS'-..,,and he won , the f.~ll 'little mystified when he went to admiration of !he city. During the ~1:his first practice. season Peahea~ could win a major ;H··' There once was a player on· the ~iWake team in the 1940's that came i~l.out,"for free." In other words no .....,.. ~f scholarship .. Peahead chased him .~ f;orr, but later the starting center •\.: , .).;received a knee Injury and Walker I jl.:1uggested the youngster · might - ~::,'come out and snap a few to help ·;, with the practice sessions. The kid :/ :_ .. e was delighted. i'f' Late in the season Wake Forest .; was to meet VMI at Winston-Salem. ,'·.The boy 'approached Peahead about '·' making the trip. Peahead grunted ,i.1 ihat the bus was filled, but if he'd .get to the stadium he could sit on r. .(:'1 !fe bench. The lad. was delighted. ir:t• ·.The · reserve thumbed to i . .:·~Winston, his equipment at his side: r.;; He ·dressed in the room of a \I. teammate in the Robert E. Lee ~i .. Hotel, then tool< a taxi to the ,;; .stadium. ' · 4;:~-~Y-Laie .. in the gan1c, 'tVC1ke forest '.;.'.had a four-touchdown lead. Some : ~·of the players suggested that W,~eahe~d allow the center to play, i.:lmce 1t was all over and only two .! . · t. mlnu tes remained. Peahead ~;· Hrelented. ( ... ~.:'~ ·On the first offensive play, the ·•l · ;:'.kid . snappe? the ball over the ;, (tailback's head. Peahead screemed ;· I I o an assistant,. • 'Get that ---- 1 .:':.<.?~t <.?f there before he beats us. He's a VMI spy or something." The kid thumbed back to Wake Forest but his pals say he was nonetheles~ delighted to get his feet on the playing field.

This photograph of Coach D.C. "Peahead" Walker was made by Professor Charles Snurgeon Black in 194 7 while '1r. Walker was head coach of football at Wake Forest College. Dr. Black was Professor of Chemistry and served for many years as department chairman.

The pho rog raph was given to the Oral History Project of Wake Forest University by t1:1e familv of Professor Black after his death in September, 1972