Phil Connell
| Phil Connell | |
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| 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) |
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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.
He was a running back for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team of Vanderbilt University. Considered one of the sport's early greats, he was picked for an all-time Vanderbilt team in 1912. Connell was captain of the 1895 and 1896 teams.
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.
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.
Connell was selected as a substitute for the All-Southern team.
He and captain Howard Boogher dove to recover the ball after the victory in the school's rivalry game with Sewanee in 1897. 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.Casper Whitney said he was the South's finest football player.
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