Alexander Hamilton Wallis
American football player
Died when: 87 years 119 days (1047 months)Star Sign: Aries
Alexander Hamilton Wallis (March 28, 1872 – July 25, 1959) was an American college football player.He played tackle 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 East Orange, New Jersey.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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