He also provided color commentary on WPAG radio's broadcasts of Michigan football games with Bob Ufer.

[4] The next week, Michigan played Ohio State in Columbus, and an anxious Weber was quoted as saying to Oosterbaan, "Ben, at this rate they're going to beat us 40-0."

During a game after the rule change, Weber reportedly scrambled after a fumble out-of-bounds, across the track surrounding the gridiron at Ferry Field.

[8] His team lost only one game in 1928 and won the state football championship in 1929, as the "Weber machine swept through the entire campaign.

[9] Another of Weber's players from Benton Harbor, Art Buss, went on to play at Michigan State and in the NFL from 1934 to 1937 for the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles.

When he left in 1931 to accept a job at Michigan, the Benton Harbor newspaper ran an article with a banner headline paying tribute to his accomplishments.

Wally came to Benton Harbor as a rookie coach, but leaves today as one of the greatest in the brilliant history of the gridiron sport at the local high school.

[8] At the time, a Michigan sports columnist wrote of Weber: "For 23 years Wally has blown the whistle on freshman football players.

"[11] In the 1950s and 1960s, Weber was a popular banquet speaker renowned for his "polysyllabic fluency,"[13] "mind--boggling after-dinner speeches,"[14] and his often humorous talks about the history of Michigan football.

It was noted that he would "regale with dubious rhetoric" audiences before whom he would thunderously and whimsically "expatiate upon" Michigan's storied history.

[5] Another described Weber's unusual speaking style this way: "He still sounds like an educated foghorn, and still flips that king's English around in a manner to amaze and apall old Noah Webster.

"[15] Praising a piledriver spotted among a current crop of Wolverines, the coach would exclaim, "When he hits 'em, generations yet unborn feel the shock of the impact!

"[5] Jim Brandstatter wrote in his book Tales from Michigan Stadium that Weber was still a regular visitor at the football offices when he enrolled in 1968.

[14] Weber also provided color commentary on WPAG radio's broadcasts of Michigan football games with Bob Ufer for several years.

[17] They had a son, Robert Weber, who was a football coach at Kimball High School in Royal Oak, Michigan.

[17] Weber was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor in 1981 as part of the fourth group of inductees.