Louis Vail
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 18, 1870 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | December 16, 1948 (aged 78) |
| Education | Penn Law School |
| Playing career | |
| Football | |
| 1889–1893 | Penn |
| 1895 | Duquesne Country & Athletic Club |
| Baseball | |
| 1891–1892 | Penn |
| Position | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1894 | Illinois |
| 1895 | Case |
| 1895 | Duquesne Country & Athletic Club |
| 1896 | Cheltenham Military Academy |
| 1897–1899 | Germantown Academy |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 4–5 (college) |
Louis De Pui "Bucky" Vail (September 18, 1870 – December 16, 1948) was an American football player and coach. Vail played football and graduated from Germantown Academy.[1] He attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving both his A.B. and his LL.B.[2] He was a member of Delta Phi Fraternity. Vail played football at Penn as a quarterback from 1889 to 1893.[3] Vail also played baseball at Penn in 1891 and 1892.[4]
Coaching career
[edit]Vail served as the fourth head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, coaching for one season in 1894 and compiling a record of 4–4.[5] Vail coached at Case School of Applied Science for one game in 1895 before the season was cancelled.[6] Later that year, he served as player-coach of the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club football team.[7]
He coached the Cheltenham Military Academy football team in 1896[8] before returning the following year to his former preparatory school, Germantown Academy, where he coached for three seasons.[9]
College head coaching record
[edit]| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois Fighting Illini (Independent) (1894) | |||||||||
| 1894 | Illinois | 4–4 | |||||||
| Illinois: | 4–4 | ||||||||
| Case (Independent) (1895) | |||||||||
| 1895 | Case | 0–1 | |||||||
| Case: | 0–1 | ||||||||
| Total: | 4–5 | ||||||||
Family
[edit]He was an older brother of college sports coach Fred Vail.[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "The First GA/PC Day Meeting | Private School Football".
- ↑ "Robert-S-Vail-iii - User Trees - Genealogy.com". www.genealogy.com. Retrieved December 9, 2023.
- ↑ "Penn Football: 1893 Team".
- ↑ "1892 Varsity Baseball Team".
- ↑ "Louis D. Vail Records by Year". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 15, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2010.
- ↑ "A Gridiron War. Struggle Among Football Teams of Cleveland Schools". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. October 26, 1895. p. 3.
- ↑ PFRA Research. "Ten Dollars and Cakes: The "Not Quite" First Pro: 1895" (PDF). Professional Football Researchers Association. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
- ↑ "Victorious Cheltenham". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 16, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Germantown's New Coach". The Times. Philadelphia. April 28, 1900. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Gridiron Gossip". Montpelier Morning Journal. Montpelier, Vermont. September 28, 1911. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
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