Thomas Andrew Gill

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Gill was also an athlete at Indiana University, where he competed in football, baseball, basketball, and track and field.[1]

Coaching career

Gill was the head football coach at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1912 and at Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1913.[2][3] He also coached Albion's baseball team in the spring of 1914.[4] In May 1914, Gill was hired to coach football, basketball, at baseball at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota.[5]

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 [[{{{school}}}|Georgetown of Kentucky]], 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.[6]

Death and honors

Gill died at the age 60, on March 8, 1947, in Daytona Beach, Florida.[7] He was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 2007.[8]

Head coaching record

College football

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Lombard Olive (Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) (1912)
1912 Lombard 0–6
Albion (Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1913)
1913 Albion 3–3–1 3–2–1 4th
Albion: 3–3–1 3–2–1
North Dakota Flickertails (Independent) (1914–1917)
1914 North Dakota 3–5
1915 North Dakota 2–2–3
1916 North Dakota 5–2
1917 North Dakota 2–4
North Dakota: 12–13–1
Kentucky Wildcats (Independent) (1918)
1918 Kentucky 2–1
Kentucky Wildcats (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1919)
1919 Kentucky 3–4–1 3–1–1 5th
Kentucky: 5–5–1 3–1–1
Total: 20–27–3

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