Phil Connell Explained

Phil Connell
Birth Date:24 August 1874
Birth Place:Nashville, Tennessee
Death Place:Mexico
Birthname:William Phillip Connell
Occupation:business man
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Phil Connell
School:Vanderbilt Commodores
Currentposition:Fullback/Halfback
Pastschools:Vanderbilt (1892 - 1897)
Class:1896
Highlights:
  • 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] Casper Whitney said he was the South's finest football player.[10]

Connell won Bachelor of Ugliness.

Notes and References

  1. Non Graduate Members of '96. Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6. Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt University. 1906. 141–143.
  2. cf. The "Famous" Class of '96. 246–248. Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 6. Vanderbilt University. 1906.
  3. News: [No title]]. The Daily Tar Heel. Newspapers.com. April 18, 1896. 4. March 14, 2015.
  4. cf. News: High School Defeats Normal. The Courier-Journal. 6. November 30, 1900. April 12, 2015. Newspapers.com.
  5. Book: Vanderbilt University Quarterly. 13. Vanderbilt University. 1913. 56.
  6. News: Two of Year's Outstanding Games in South This Week. Lincoln Evening Journal. November 24, 1937. 12. Grantland Rice. Grantland Rice. May 13, 2015. Newspapers.com.
  7. 167–168. Seventh Province. The Sigma Chi Quarterly. 1895.
  8. Web site: Vandy Students' 1897 cheer banned. Bill Traughber. September 14, 2011. April 12, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151120122503/http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/historycorner/spec-rel/091411aac.html. November 20, 2015. dead.
  9. Web site: Vandy Shuts Out 1897 Opponents. Bill Traughber. October 11, 2006.
  10. News: The Football Teams of the South. The Courier-Journal. 18. October 2, 1898. August 14, 2008. Newspapers.com.

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