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. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving both his A.B. and his LL.B. He was a member of Delta Phi Fraternity. Vail played football at Penn as a quarterback from 1889 to 1893. Vail also played baseball at Penn in 1891 and 1892.
Coaching career
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. Vail coached at Case School of Applied Science for one game in 1895 before the season was cancelled. Later that year, he served as player-coach of the Duquesne Country and Athletic Club football team.
He coached the Cheltenham Military Academy football team in 1896 before returning the following year to his former preparatory school, Germantown Academy, where he coached for three seasons.
College head coaching record
| 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
He was an older brother of college sports coach Fred Vail.
References
- ↑ "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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