Charles Edgar "Blondy" Wallace (died March 5, 1937) was an early professional football player and later convicted criminal during the Prohibition Era.
[2] After the NFL season, Wallace played in the World Series of Football in 1902 at Madison Square Garden.
Syracuse defeated Wallace and the "New York" club in what has been called the first indoor pro football game.
However Blondy would get a second chance winning the series after Glenn "Pop" Warner of the Syracuse Athletic Club suffered a head injury and was replaced by Wallace.
[3] In 1903, Bill Prince, the manager of the Franklin Athletic Club, loaded his team with every star football player available.
Canton would go on to lose the game to Latrobe, however the team was the runner-up in the Ohio League standings for the 1905 season.
The Bulldogs and Wallace denied the charges, maintaining that Massillon only wanted to ruin the club's reputation before their final game against Latrobe.
Harry March his 1934 a book titled Pro Football: Its Ups and Downs, which documented the Canton-Massillon betting scandal, called Wallace "The King of the Bootleggers".
[7] He was indicted when books and records from the Egg Harbor Brewery which disclosed, according to the government, income tax evasions in 1929 and 1930.