Scotty Neill
Punter | |
| Class | Graduate |
|---|---|
| Major | Medicine |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | November 17, 1895 Birmingham, Alabama |
| Died: | July 7, 1963 (aged 67) Albany, Georgia |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College | Birmingham–Southern (c. 1918) Vanderbilt (1919–1920; 1922) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Francis Kennedy "Scotty" Neill (November 17, 1895 – July 7, 1963) was an
in 1925.Early years
Neill was born on November 17, 1895, in Birmingham, Alabama, to Peter Neill and Rosina Jones Dollop.
Vanderbilt
Baseball
1921
Neill was a member of the
In the game against Camp Benning (GA), Neill netted a home run with a fly ball to left field, which bounced off the outfielder's knee and over the fence.[4]
Neill was ruled ineligible for baseball in 1922.
Football
Neill was also a prominent member of Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores football teams in 1920 and 1922, which had a win-loss-tie record of 12–3–2 over his two seasons, and won a Southern championship in 1922.
1920
Scotty Neill had fine punts, of 45 to 60 yards, in a 20–0 over the Tennessee Volunteers in the second week of play.[5] In the second half of the final game, a 21–3 victory over the Sewanee Tigers, Neill punted the ball from the 35-yard line to the 4-yard line, picked up by Vanderbilt running back Grailey Berryhill and run into the end zone to score on a "bewildering" onside kick.[6][7]
1922
In the second a game, a 33 to 0 victory over
References
- ^ Leroy E. Marlowe (1922). "All Sigma Nu Football Team". The Delta of Sigma Nu Fraternity. 39: 34–35.
- ^ a b Bill Traughber. "The Historic 1921 VU Baseball Team". Archived from the original on 2015-07-15. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
- ^
"Neil, Star Hitter For Vandy Outfit". Columbus Ledger. May 5, 1921.
- ^ "Benning Loses To Vanderbilt". Columbus Ledger. May 20, 1921.
- ^ Russell, Fred, and Maxwell Edward Benson. Fifty Years of Vanderbilt Football. Nashville, Tennessee, 1938, p. 38
- ^ "Vandy Downs Sewanee 21-3". The Macon Daily Telegraph. November 26, 1920.
- ^ "Vanderbilt Cracks Sewanee's Defense". Montgomery Advertiser. November 26, 1920.
- ^ "Vandy Defeats Arkansas Team." The Macon Daily Telegraph 8 Oct. 1922: 8.
- ^ "Vandy Coaches Working Hard." Columbus Ledger 10 Oct. 1922: 6.
- ^ Zipp Newman (December 5, 1950). "Southern Football History, Chapter 2". The Tuscaloosa News.
- ^ "Vandy Whips Texas Team". The Atlanta Constitution. October 22, 1922.
- ^ "Longhorns Ready For Ala. University Sat". The Breckenridge Daily American. October 30, 1922.
- ^ "Tennessee Fights Hard, but Loses to Vanderbilt." The Montgomery Advertiser 5 Nov. 1922: 11.
- ^ "Selection of Mythical All-Southern Grid Team Difficult Task." The Montgomery Advertiser 3 Dec. 1922: 10.
- ^ "Fletcher, Georgia Star, And Barron at Halfback; Covington Quarterback". The Atlanta Constitution. December 3, 1922.
