At the club, he won 1927 Emperor's Cup with Tadao Takayama and so on.
In May 1930, when Wakabayashi was a Tokyo Imperial University student, he was selected Japan national team for 1930 Far Eastern Championship Games in Tokyo and Japan also won the championship.
He was the first player in Japan national team to score a hat-trick in debut.
[1] On 7 August 1937, Wakabayashi died of lung disease in Hyogo Prefecture at the age of 29.
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