Wallie Winter was a college football head coach for the University of Minnesota for the 1893 season, leading the team to a 6-0 overall record including 3-0 in Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest league play. He had been an All-American Tackle at Yale and was known for working the players extremely hard, to the point that "they considered the actual games to be breathers compared to the scrimmages."
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