Wallace Charles Winter Sr. (August 8, 1872 – May 10, 1947) was an American college football player and coach.

[1] Winter served as the head football coach at the University of Minnesota for the 1893 Golden Gophers season, leading the team to a 6–0 overall record including a 3–0 mark in Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest league play.

He was known for working the players extremely hard, to the point that "they considered the actual games to be breathers compared to the scrimmages.

[4] The younger Winter was killed in action in March 1918 while flying behind enemy lines in Germany.

[5] Winter had earlier been reported missing, but survived that episode to receive the Croix de Guerre in Feb 1917.