After graduating from Yale, Winter became a competitive golfer.[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."[2]: 4 but agreed to the conditions as long as he could act as the referee.[3]: 5
Winters's son, Wallace C. Winter Jr., was a back for the Yale football team, but quit the team to serve as an aviator in France during World War I.[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.[6]
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth
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^The General Alumni Association (1928). Martin Newell (ed.). The History of Minnesota Football. The General Alumni Association of the University of Minnesota.