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Peahead Walker

1899–1970 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

4 indexed works are connected with this person.

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Southern Conference football coaches

Morton, Hugh M. · 1950

Group portrait by Hugh Morton of Southern Conference football coaches in Chapel Hill on 24 August 1950, at the first annual football round-up. From left: Peahead Walker of Wake Forest, Beattie Feathers of North Carolina State, Jim Tatum of Maryland, Wallace Wade of Duke, George Barclay of Washington and Lee, Crowell Little of Davidson and Carl Snavely of UNC.

Douglas "Peahead" Walker, October 15, 1949

Morton, Hugh M. · 1949

Wake Forest head football coach Douglas 'Peahead' Walker at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill on 15 October 1949, with two of his players, right end Ed Bradley (number 45) and left tackle William George (number 47). Black-and-white sheet film negative by Hugh Morton.

Douglas "Peahead" Walker, October 15, 1949

Morton, Hugh M. · 1949

Wake Forest head coach Douglas 'Peahead' Walker at Kenan Stadium on 15 October 1949, with backfield coach Robert Kellogg on the phone and players John 'Red' O'Quinn and Lou Pollacci behind them. Black-and-white sheet film negative by Hugh Morton.

UNC-Wake Forest football

Morton, Hugh M. · 1947

After Wake Forest beat Carolina 19 to 7 in Kenan Stadium on 11 October 1947, UNC coach Carl Snavely, in a hat, moves to congratulate Wake Forest coach Douglas 'Peahead' Walker as his players carry him off. Hugh Morton photograph.

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  1. Jim Tatum dies at Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill Tatum apparently contracted an overwhelming viral infection while visiting Canada with the coaches Peahead Walker and Frank Howard, and died one week after entering Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He was buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery. People: Peahead WalkerSearch the index · NCpedia: Tatum, James Moore (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)

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