Thomas Andrew Gill | |
Birth Date: | 23 January 1887 |
Birth Place: | Washington, Indiana, U.S. |
Death Place: | Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S. |
Player Sport1: | Football |
Player Years2: | 1909–1911 |
Player Team2: | Indiana |
Player Sport3: | Baseball |
Player Years4: | 1909–1912 |
Player Team4: | Indiana |
Player Years5: | 1915 |
Player Team5: | Winston-Salem Twins |
Player Years6: | 1920 |
Player Team6: | Saskatoon Quakers |
Player Positions: | Halfback, quarterback (football) Second baseman, shortstop (baseball) |
Coach Sport1: | Football |
Coach Years2: | 1912 |
Coach Team2: | Lombard |
Coach Years3: | 1913 |
Coach Team3: | Albion |
Coach Years4: | 1914–1917 |
Coach Team4: | North Dakota |
Coach Years5: | 1918–1919 |
Coach Team5: | Kentucky |
Coach Years6: | 1921–1940 |
Coach Team6: | Elston HS (IN) |
Coach Sport7: | Men's basketball |
Coach Years8: | 1913–1914 |
Coach Team8: | Albion |
Coach Years9: | 1914–1918 |
Coach Team9: | North Dakota |
Coach Years10: | 1918–1919 |
Coach Team10: | Kentucky |
Coach Sport11: | Women's basketball |
Coach Years12: | 1918–1919 |
Coach Team12: | Kentucky |
Coach Sport13: | Baseball |
Coach Years14: | 1914 |
Coach Team14: | Albion |
Coach Years15: | 1915–1916 |
Coach Team15: | North Dakota |
Coach Years16: | 1918–1919 |
Coach Team16: | Kentucky |
Overall Record: | 20–27–3 (college football) 49–27 (men's college basketball) |
Thomas Andrew Gill (January 23, 1887 – March 8, 1947) was an American football, and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball.
Gill was the head football coach at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1912 and at Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1913.[1] [2] He also coached Albion's baseball team in the spring of 1914.[3] In May 1914, Gill was hired to coach football, basketball, at baseball at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota.[4]
Gill served as the head football coach at Kentucky from 1918 to 1919, compiled a 5–5–1 record His 1918 team won two games, at Indiana, 24–7, and at, 21–3. They lost at Vanderbilt, 33–0. A subsequent game against Centre and the remainder of the season were canceled due to the 1918 flu pandemic. Gill's 1919 team was 3–4–1, with wins against Georgetown, 1919 Sewanee Tigers football team and Tennessee and losses to Indiana, Ohio State, Cincinnati and Centre, while tying Vanderbilt, 0–0.
Gill coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team in 1918–19, finishing with a 6–8 record.[5]
Gill died at the age 60, on March 8, 1947, in Daytona Beach, Florida.[6] He was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 2007.[7]