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Duke Blue Devils Bio
The football team has been one of the least
successful football programs in Division I-A over the past twenty years,
and was unable to beat any other ACC team in 2005. However, it has not
always been this way. 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 success at Alabama (three national championships) translated well
to Duke's program, most notably in 1938, when his "Iron Dukes" went
unscored upon the entire regular season. Duke reached the national
championship game, their first Rose Bowl appearance, where they lost 7-3
when University of Southern California scored a touchdown in the final
minute of the game on a pass from a second string quarterback to a third
string tight end. Wade's Blue Devils lost another Rose Bowl to Oregon
State in 1942, this one held at Duke's home stadium in Durham, North
Carolina due to Pearl Harbor.
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