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Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium is a 35,018-seat stadium on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Primarily used for American football, it is the home field of the Duke Blue Devils. It opened in 1929 with a game against Pitt, as the first facility in Duke's new West Campus.
The Duke Blue Devils, then known as the Trinity Blue and White, first fielded a football team in 1888, coached by John Franklin Crowell. [1] The first game against North Carolina was the first "scientific" game in the state. [2] Trinity finished the first two seasons in their football history with records of 2–1 in 1888 and 1–1 in 1889. [1]
The most famous Duke football season came in 1938, when Wallace Wade was head coach and the "Iron Dukes" were born. Wade shocked the college football world by leaving Alabama for Duke in 1930, later rationalizing the move by saying that Duke shared his belief that a school should provide its athletes with a strong academic background. Wade's ...
College Football Hall of Fame. Frederick Wayman " Duke " Slater (December 9, 1898 – August 14, 1966) was an American professional football player and judge. He was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 [1] and was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame 's Centennial Class in 2020. [2]
George Anderson McAfee (March 13, 1918 – March 4, 2009) was an American professional football halfback, defensive back and return specialist who played for the Chicago Bears from 1940 to 1941 and 1945 to 1950 in the National Football League (NFL). As an undergraduate at Duke University, McAfee starred in baseball and track and field as well ...
Pro Football Hall of Fame. Christian Adolph " Sonny " Jurgensen III (born August 23, 1934) is an American former professional football quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, playing for the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983.
Inducted in 1955 (profile) William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 6, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama from 1923 to 1930 and at Duke University from 1931 to 1941 and again from 1946 ...
Since 1929, Duke has played their home games out of Wallace Wade Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The Blue Devils began playing football as an independent in 1888 , though the school did not field a team from 1895 to 1919.