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2 unusual facts about Perry Wallace


Perry Wallace

Wallace attended Pearl High School in the then segregated Nashville public schools.

Roy Skinner

The first player to make the team was Perry Wallace, a local schoolboy star at Nashville's Pearl High School, who enrolled at Vanderbilt in 1966 and first started playing for the team in 1967, becoming the Southeastern Conference's first African American varsity player.



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