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Wade H. Watts

Wade H. Watts

  • Class Year:
    1940
  • Induction Year:
    1978
  • Sport(s):
    Football and Basketball

Wade H. Watts '40 graduated from BW in 1940 and was inducted into the Alumni Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1978.

The legacy of fine athletic and educational achievement begun by the immortal Ray Watts has been well perpetuated by his son Wade Watts.

After a great career at Baldwin-Wallace which saw him anchor the football team's kicking game and captain the basketball squad, Wade quickly established himself as one of the finest in a long line of successful prep grid mentors to emerge from the Berea campus. Fresh out of Baldwin-Wallace, he took over the head coaching duties at Fairfield Union High School. After serving in World War II, he became the head football coach at East Liverpool High School in 1951 where, one year later, he was runner-up for Ohio Coach of the Year honors.

It was when at Canton Mckinley High School that Wade gained his greatest recognition. After joining the perennial state power as head coach in 1953, he was twice named the United Press International Ohio High School Coach of the Year.

He received his Master of Education degree in 1954 and two years later gained the Merit Award for singular achievements in the field of health and physical education.

Wade returned to Fairfield Union in 1962 to help with its football program there before moving to California where he became head football coach at Newport Harbor High School in 1965. 

He had three children, Donna '64, Thomas '66 and James.