Phil Connell

Phil Connell
Born William Phillip Connell
(1874-08-24)August 24, 1874
Nashville, Tennessee
Died February 13, 1932(1932-02-13) (aged 57)
Mexico
Occupation business man

College football career

Vanderbilt Commodores
Position Fullback/Halfback
Class 1896
Career history
College Vanderbilt (1892–1897)
Career highlights and awards
  • SIAA championship (1897)
  • All-time Vanderbilt first team (1912)
  • All-Southern sub (1895)

William Phillip "Phil" Connell (August 24, 1874 – February 13, 1932) was a college football player and later a prominent business man of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[1]

Vanderbilt University

He was a running back for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team of Vanderbilt University.[2] Considered one of the sport's early greats,[3][4] he was picked for an all-time Vanderbilt team in 1912.[5] Connell was captain of the 1895 and 1896 teams.

1892

The oldest team in the memory of Grantland Rice was the 1892 team. Rice claimed Connell then would be a good player in any era.[6]

1894

Connel featured in Vanderbilt's first ever defeat of Ole Miss in 1894, giving the school its only loss of the season by the score of 40 to 0.[7]

1895

Connell was selected as a substitute for the All-Southern team.[3]

1897

He and captain Howard Boogher dove to recover the ball after the victory in the school's rivalry game with Sewanee in 1897.[8] Vanderbilt allowed no points on the season and split a claim to the championship of the south when it held Virginia to a scoreless tie.[9] Casper Whitney said he was the South's finest football player.[10]

Connell won Bachelor of Ugliness.

References

  1. ↑ Vanderbilt University. "Non Graduate Members of '96". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6: 141–143.
  2. ↑ cf. Vanderbilt University. "The "Famous" Class of '96". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6: 246–248.
  3. 1 2 "[No title]". The Daily Tar Heel. April 18, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved March 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ cf. "High School Defeats Normal". The Courier-Journal. November 30, 1900. p. 6. Retrieved April 12, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 13. p. 56.
  6. ↑ Grantland Rice (November 24, 1937). "Two of Year's Outstanding Games in South This Week". Lincoln Evening Journal. p. 12. Retrieved May 13, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Seventh Province". The Sigma Chi Quarterly: 167–168. 1895.
  8. ↑ Bill Traughber (September 14, 2011). "Vandy Students' 1897 cheer banned".
  9. ↑ Bill Traughber (October 11, 2006). "Vandy Shuts Out 1897 Opponents".
  10. ↑ "The Football Teams of the South". The Courier-Journal. October 2, 1898. p. 18. Retrieved August 14, 2008 – via Newspapers.com.
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