Andrew Gill
American college football coach, college basketball coach
About Andrew Gill
Lived 1887 – 1947 (aged 60). Andrew Gill was an American basketball coach and american football player.
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 also an athlete at Indiana University, where he competed in football, baseball, basketball, and track and field.
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. He also coached Albion's baseball team in the spring of 1914. In May 1914, Gill was hired to coach football, basketball, at baseball at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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.
Death and honors Gill died at the age 60, on March 8, 1947, in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was inducted into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Who was Andrew Gill?
American college football coach, college basketball coach (1887-1947)
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Andrew Gill was born on 23 January 1887 in Washington.
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Andrew Gill died on 9 March 1947 in Daytona Beach.
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Andrew Gill was a basketball coach and american football player.
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Andrew Gill was American.
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