Frederick Renshaw "Doc" Wallace (September 20, 1893 – December 31, 1963) was a

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Shortstop. Wallace played for

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in the

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season. He played just two games in his career, having one hit in four at-bats. Wallace was born in

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to William David Wallace and Lyda Potts Wallace. He was educated in Chestertown, Maryland at a middle and upper school which eventually became Washington College. After graduating from Washington College in 1917, he joined the US Army, eventually becoming a sergeant with the 836 Aero Squadron. During his one year of active duty, until the end of WWI, he implemented an intramural sport program to heighten morale between platoons. He was awarded a medal by Queen Mary in

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for these actions and said years later, "It was the longest mile I’ve ever walked." After the war, he was recruited by the

and played one season as shortstop. From 1920 to 1924 he managed minor league baseball teams until becoming Director of Athletics at Th
St. Luke's School for Boys
for boys in Wayne, Pennsylvania, a

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suburb. During the Summer of 1923, he attended the summer program in Education at the

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and in 1927, he joined the Staff at the

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for Boys. It was here that he remained the athletic director and a master of Math and History for the upper grades for 36 years. In 1951 he went to the Far East with two other athletic consultants to teach the game of baseball. At about that time, he was elected President of the Eastern Ivy League Collegiate Football Association. He was on the Vestry of the

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for many years and a football linesman referee for five Army/Navy games. A story teller with a sense of humor he was a guest speaker at many athletic events. He was the Director of two summer camps for boys in Maine during WWII; Camp Allagash and Camp Caribou. He married Josephine Parham Small Wallace; a direct descendant of the Swansson family, who emigrated to the United States from Sweden on the

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in 1634. He had three children: Frederick Renshaw Wallace, Jr., Elizabeth Parham Wallace Perkins, Eugenia Small Wallace Eberle. His younger brother was Major General

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and Ambassador

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was his brother-in-law. Wallace died in

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. In 1999 and 2005, he was posthumously inducted into the Washington College Athletic Hall of Fame and the Haverford School Athletic Hall of Fame, respectively.

External links

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