Grady Wallace

Grady Wallace

Personal information
January 20, 1934
Born
Floyd County, Kentucky
August 17, 2006 (aged 72)
Died
Columbia, South Carolina
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight 165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
High school Betsy Layne (Betsy Layne, Kentucky)
Pikeville (1953–1955)
College South Carolina (1955–1957)

NBA draft 1957 / Round: 5 / Pick: 40th overall

Selected by the Boston Celtics
Position Forward
Number 14, 42
 Career highlights and awards
Consensus second-team All-American (1957)
First-team All-ACC (1957)
Second-team All-ACC (1956)
NCAA season scoring leader (1957)
No. 42 retired by South Carolina Gamecocks

Grady A. Wallace (January 20, 1934 – August 17, 2006) was

an All-American basketball player for the South Carolina
Gamecocks in 1955–56 and 1956–57. As a senior in 1957,
Wallace led the National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) in scoring with 31.3 points per game
(ppg), which edged out future Naismith Basketball Hall of
Famers Elgin Baylor (29.7) and Wilt Chamberlain (29.6).[1]

Wallace was born in Mare Creek (now called Stanville),

Kentucky, the son of Rufus and Sudie (Smith) Wallace.[2] He
was raised in Betsy Layne in Floyd County and attended
Betsy Layne High School from 1949 to 1953.

He spent two years at Pikeville Junior College in his home

state of Kentucky before enrolling at the University of South
Carolina.[1]

In Wallace's junior season of college, his first with the

Gamecocks, he averaged 23.9 ppg.[3] He scored a school
record 54 points against Georgia on December 21, 1956
(John Roche would later score 56 in 1971) and owns four of
the top six single-game scoring outputs in USC history.[4]
His career average of 28.0 ppg is the highest in school
history, and his career rebound average of over 12 per game
is the second highest.[5]

Wallace was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1957 NBA

Draft in the fifth round (40th pick overall) but never played
professionally.[6] After college, he played two seasons with
the industrial league Phillips 66ers. He later coached at
Cardinal Newman High School in South Carolina for nine
seasons, leading the team to two state titles.[7]

He would later become the first men's basketball player in

USC history to have his jersey number retired.[3] Wallace
died of heart failure in Columbia, South Carolina on August
17, 2006 at the age of 72.[8] Survivors included his wife,
Janet, children Leigh Ann and Thomas, and three
grandchildren.[2]

See also
List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season scoring
leaders

References
1. ^ a b Price, Tom (2001). Tales from the Gamecocks'
Roost. United States: Sports Publishing, LLC. pp. 123–
 125. ISBN 1-58261-342-7.
2. ^ a b http://medicalleader.org/pmc_news.html?
id=1351&section=Community%20News
3. ^ a b Spear, Bob (February 24, 2008). "Grady Wallace –
Scoring's silent partner". thestate.com. Archived from
the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
4. Compton, Sheldon (August 24, 2006). "Basketball
legend Grady Wallace dies at age 71". Pikeville Medical
Center. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011.
Retrieved August 19, 2010.
5. "University of South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame:
Grady Wallace (1968)". USC Association of Lettermen.
2009. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
6. "1957 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Sports
Reference LLC. 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
7. LeMaster, Steve (July 14, 2013). "Betsy Layne to honor
Wallace as first inductee into Hall of Fame".
FloydCountyTimes.com. Archived from the original on
March 4, 2014. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
8. "August Obits 2006 – Grady A. Wallace". Floyd County
Times. 2006. Retrieved August 19, 2010.

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1957 NCAA Men's Basketball Consensus All-Americans

 Wilt Chamberlain
Chet Forte
Rod Hundley
First Team Jim Krebs
Lennie Rosenbluth
Charlie Tyra

Elgin Baylor
Frank Howard
Second Team Guy Rodgers
Gary Thompson
Grady Wallace

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NCAA Division I men's basketball season scoring leaders

1936: Luisetti
1937: Luisetti
1938: Jaworski
1939: Jaworski
1940: Modzelewski
1941: Modzelewski
Unofficial 1942: Modzelewski
1943: Senesky
1944: Calverley
1945: Mikan
1946: Mikan
1947: Lacy

1948: Wier
1949: Lavelli
 1950: Arizin
1951: Mlkvy
1952: Lovellette
1953: Selvy
1954: Selvy
1955: Floyd
1956: Floyd
1957: Wallace
1958: Robertson
1959: Robertson
1960: Robertson
1961: Burgess
1962: McGill
1963: Werkman
1964: Komives
1965: Barry
1966: Schellhase
1967: Walker
1968: Maravich
1969: Maravich
1970: Maravich
1971: Neumann
1972: Lamar
1973: Averitt
1974: Fogle
1975: McCurdy
1976: Rogers
1977: F. Williams
1978: F. Williams
1979: Butler
1980: Murphy
1981: Fredrick
1982: Kelly
1983: Kelly
1984: Jakubick
Official
1985: McDaniel
1986: Bailey
1987: Houston
1988: Hawkins
1989: Gathers
1990: Kimble
1991: Bradshaw
1992: Roberts
1993: Guy
1994: Robinson
1995: Thomas
1996: Granger
1997: Jones
1998: Jones
1999: A. Young
2000: Alexander
2001: McCollum
2002: Conley
2003: Douglas
2004: Clark
2005: Clark
2006: Morrison
2007: R. Williams
2008: R. Williams
2009: Curry
2010: Coleman
2011: Fredette
2012: Hamilton
2013: Green
2014: McDermott
2015: Harvey
2016: Daniel
2017: Keene
2018: T. Young
2019: Clemons
2020: Howard