Wallace Copeland Philoon (October 13, 1883 – January 16, 1970) was an American college football player and coach and a major general in the United States Army.

He then enrolled in the United States Military Academy, playing at the center position for the Army Black Knights football team.

[1] He was also named a second-team All-American by Walter Camp.

[2][3] After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1909, alongside future general officers such as George S. Patton, William Hood Simpson, Jacob L. Devers and Robert L. Eichelberger, Philoon served as an officer in the United States Army.

From 1942 to 1944, Philoon commanded the Army's training center at Fort McClellan, Alabama, where 200,000 infantry replacement troops were trained for World War II.