65-66perrywallace09…Pearl High senior Perry Wallace, a 6-5, 213-pounder, is one of the South’s hottest prospects and says “I would have no hesitancy about being the first Negro to sign a Southeastern Conference basketball grant-in-aid.” Wallace is being heavily courted by Vanderbilt as well as Tennessee and Kentucky from the SEC, a conference that has never had a black varsity basketball player. Staff photo by Jimmy Ellis (The Tennessean) 2/3/1966