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Phil Connell
Phil Connell
Born	William Phillip Connell; August 24, 1874; Nashville, Tennessee
Died	February 13, 1932 (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 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] Caspar Whitney said he was the South's finest football player.^[10]

Connell won Bachelor of Ugliness.

References

^ Vanderbilt University (1906). "Non Graduate Members of '96". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6: 141–143.
^ cf. Vanderbilt University (1906). "The "Famous" Class of '96". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6: 246–248.
^ ^a ^b "[No title]". The Daily Tar Heel. April 18, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved March 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ cf. "High School Defeats Normal". The Courier-Journal. November 30, 1900. p. 6. Retrieved April 12, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Vanderbilt University (1913). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vol. 13. p. 56.
^ 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.
^ "Seventh Province". The Sigma Chi Quarterly: 167–168. 1895.
^ Bill Traughber (September 14, 2011). "Vandy Students' 1897 cheer banned". Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
^ Bill Traughber (October 11, 2006). "Vandy Shuts Out 1897 Opponents".
^ "The Football Teams of the South". The Courier-Journal. October 2, 1898. p. 18. Retrieved August 14, 2008 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

Phil Connell at Find a Grave

[1] Vanderbilt University (1906). "Non Graduate Members of '96". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6: 141–143.

[2] . Vanderbilt University (1906). "The "Famous" Class of '96". Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6: 246–248.

[No_title-3] "[No title]". The Daily Tar Heel. April 18, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved March 14, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

[4] . "High School Defeats Normal". The Courier-Journal. November 30, 1900. p. 6. Retrieved April 12, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

[allv1912-5] Vanderbilt University (1913). Vanderbilt University Quarterly. Vol. 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". Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved April 12, 2015.

[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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