George S. Stillman
Biographical details | |
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Born | Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. | December 13, 1879
Died | March 15, 1907 New York, New York, U.S. | (aged 27)
Playing career | |
1898–1900 | Yale |
Position(s) | Tackle |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1901 | Yale |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 11–1–1 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
Awards | |
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George Schley Stillman (December 13, 1879 – March 15, 1907) was an
Early years
Stillman was born in
Yale
Stillman subsequently enrolled at
Stillman was also a member of Yale's track team and rowed for Yale's varsity crew.[1]
After graduating from Yale in 1901, Stillman returned in the fall of 1901 as the head coach of Yale's football team. He led the team to a record of 11–1–1 in his one season as head coach.[9]
During the period from 1899 to 1912, Yale had 14 different head football coaches in 14 years – despite compiling a combined record of 127–11–10 in those years.[10] For that 14-year span, the Yale football team has been recognized retrospectively (except for the contemporaneous Whitney) as the national championship team by one or more of the major national championship selectors for six seasons – 1900 (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis), 1902 (Parke Davis), 1905 (Parke Davis, Whitney), 1906 (Billingsley, Parke Davis, Whitney), 1907 (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis, Whitney), and 1909 (Billingsley, Helms, Houlgate, National Championship Foundation, Parke Davis).[11] An erroneous source includes 1901.[a][b]
- ^ Parke Davis' selection for 1901, as published in Spalding's Foot Ball Guide (to which he was a contributor until his death) for 1934 and 1935, was Harvard.[12][13]
- ^ The NCAA Records Book states "Yale" for 1901, which is an error that has been perpetuated since the first appearance of Parke Davis' selections in the NCAA book about 1995.[12][13]
Later years
Stillman subsequently entered the banking business, first with the Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., and then as a founding member of Rosen, Stillman & Co. in New York.[1][14][15] In April 1906, he married Estelle Barbour of Detroit, Michigan, at New York's Fort Street Presbyterian Church.[16] He contracted typhoid fever in June 1906, which later developed into meningitis. He died in March 1907 at age 27.[15][17]
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Yale Bulldogs (Independent) (1901) | |||||||||
1901 | Yale | 11–1–1 | |||||||
Yale: | 11–1–1 | ||||||||
Total: | 11–1–1 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
References
- ^ a b c d Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased from June, 1900, to June, 1910. The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. 1910. pp. 780–781.
- ^ Census entry for Joseph Stillman and family. Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: 548; Family History Film: 1254548; Page: 412A; Enumeration District: 510; Image: 0105.
- ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on December 18, 2007.
- ^ "All-America Addendum – Part 2" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008.
- ^ "Walter Camp's 1900 All America Selections". Capital Times. November 23, 1930.
- ^ "Yale Yearly Results: 1900–1904". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012.
- ^ "Banquet to Football Champions" (PDF). The New York Times. December 11, 1900.
- ^ "Yale Football Champions of 1900" (PDF). The New York Times. November 25, 1900.
- ^ "Yale 1901 Football Team". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ^ "Yale Year-by-Year Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011.
- ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 78. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
- ^ a b Okeson, Walter R., ed. (1934). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1934. New York: American Sports Publishing Co. p. 206.
- ^ a b Okeson, Walter R., ed. (1935). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1935. New York: American Sports Publishing Co. p. 233.
- ^ "The Financial Situation" (PDF). The New York Times. March 5, 1906.
- ^ a b "George Schley Stillman" (PDF). The New York Times. March 16, 1907.
- ^ "Stillan-Barbour Wedding: New Yorker Leads Detroit Girl to the Altar" (PDF). The New York Times. April 25, 1906.
- ^ "GEORGE S. STILLMAN DEAD: End Comes Before Year of Married Life". Detroit Free Press. March 17, 1907.