Wade Stinson (born 1926 or 1927; died March 2001)[1] was an American football halfback and athletic director for the Kansas Jayhawks.
Stinson suffered a serious injury in World War II, including the loss of one finger and mangling of three others.
[2] After skin, nerve and tendon grafting, he enrolled at Kansas, played sparingly as a sophomore in 1948, and lettered as a second stringer in 1949.
[4] His total of 1,129 yards was a Kansas school record until broken by Gale Sayers in 1963.
[2] Stinson returned to his alma mater as athletic director from 1964 to 1972.