Born: June 9, 1909
Died: May 31, 1969
Married: Sarah Richardson
Children: Jeanne Breen, Patricia Walker, Dr. Thomas Wallace
Tom Daniel Wallace scored eleven touchdowns in a single high school football game on October 16, 1926, a record that still stands in New York State. He also scored the most points in a single game, at 66. The game was Saranac Lake High School vs. Lake Placid, and the final score was 101 to 0. He went on to play for Georgetown University from 1927 to 1930. He also lettered in basketball and track.
He was born in Syracuse, but his family moved to Saranac Lake when he was a child. His mother worked for the Guggenheim family, which built Guggenheim Camp on the Lower Saranac Lake. His brother, Bill, served as chief of the Saranac Lake Police Department for many years. Tom Wallace became a lawyer, then ran a liquor store at 102 River Street, and later became Franklin County probation officer. At the time of his death he lived at 51 Lake Street.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, June 2, 1969
Tom Wallace Dies Saturday Evening
Thomas Daniel Wallace, Franklin County probation officer, died unexpectedly Saturday evening at his home, 51 Lake St., Saranac Lake.
Mr. Wallace was born in Syracuse on June 9, 1906, came to Saranac Lake in 1920 and went to local schools, graduating in 1928 from Saranac Lake high school where he was an outstanding athlete and New York State hurdles champion.
He attended Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and was graduated from Columbia Law School. He was a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and was employed by the Treasury Department. During World War II he was employed on Lend Lease [remainder illegible]
Plattsburgh Daily Press, December 4, 1926
TOM WALLACE VOTED MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
Tom Wallace, whose playing full back for the Saranac Lake High School football squad was in a large measure responsible for the teams record, was awarded the A.H. Denny silver cup as the most valuable member of his team. The presentation was made Thanksgiving eve at the assembly of the players who were to be given football letters.
Ogdensburg Republican-Journal, June 17, 1927
WALLACE TO STAY IN SARANAC LAKE
Star in Three Sports Will Not Go West as Planned
SARANAC LAKE, June 16 — Tom Wallace, regarded as one of the greatest athletic stars developed at the high school, will not be lost to the institution this year. A change in plans made to go to California will keep him in the local school. He will complete his junior year this month and enter his senior year next September.
Wallace has been a consistent star on not only the track and football field throughout his high school well. He jumped center on last winter's basketball team and in no small measure it was his playing that made a championship contender of the local five.
As captain of the track team this season Wallace led his teammates to victory over Malone in a dual meet here and the championship of the Adirondack interscholastic league at Tupper Lake. He was the only member of the team to qualify in the sectional at Canton to go to the state meet last Saturday at Ithaca. There he lowered a state record he made last year in the 220-yard low hurdles altho, because of a tie with another track man from Rochester and a wind favoring the runners, his last year's mark, will stand for another year.
Wallace has been a power on the football gridiron for three seasons. He had a great year in football last year and was one of the most feared men by the schools that faced him.
Plattsburgh Sentinel, August 7, 1928
Tom Wallace, life guard at Prescott Park, bathing beach at Saranac Lake rescued a small boy from drowning this week. Last week he saved a school girl as she was going down the third time.
