Alexander Hamilton Wallis (March 28, 1872 – July 25, 1959) was an American

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player. He played

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for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University from 1890 to 1892, and was selected as an All-American in 1892. Wallis was the son of Hamilton Wallis, a prominent lawyer of

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. He had a brother, Nathan C. Wallis and a sister, Emeline Waldron Wallis, who married James Carr Dunn of London, England. Though Wallis was a lineman, he was a frequent ball carrier for Yale. In November 1892, an article reported that Wallis was running with the ball in his old form, getting off to a quick start, "hitting the line hard and tackling equally hard."

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