- Charles O. Gill
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Charles Otis Gill 
Sport(s) Football Biographical details Born March 4, 1868 Place of birth Walpole, Massachusetts Died June 2, 1959 (aged 91) Place of death Waterford, Vermont Playing career 1889 Yale Position(s) Tackle Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1894
1908California
New HampshireHead coaching record Overall 1–8–2 Statistics College Football Data Warehouse Accomplishments and honors Awards All-American, 1889 Charles Otis Gill (March 4, 1868[1] – June 2, 1959)[2] was an American Congregationalist clergyman and author, with Gifford Pinchot, of two influential books on the state of rural churches in the US.
He played American football for Yale University from 1886 to 1889[3] He was Captain of the Yale team and was on the first College Football All-America Team in 1889.[4]
He was the head coach of the California (1894) and New Hampshire (1908) college football programs.[5]
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Early life and college career
Born in Walpole, Massachusetts,[2] Gill graduated from Yale in 1889, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.[6]:179 He played football at Yale from 1885-1889.[2] In 1888 the team went undefeated and was not scored upon.[2] In 1889, Gill was captain of the team under coach Walter Camp and that year Yale scored 665 points while only giving up 31 points to their opponents.[4] That year Casper Whitney selected Gill and teammates Amos Alonzo Stagg and William Heffelfinger for the first ever College Football All-America Team.
Minister, missionary, author
In addition to his accomplishments on the gridiron for Yale, Gill attended the Yale Divinity School from 1889–90, then the Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1892–94, where he received his graduate degree and was ordained as a minister in the Congregational Church on July 25, 1894. He served as pastor of the Westmore, Vermont Congregational Church in 1894 and 1895 and then as a foreign missionary for the Presbyterian Church in Peking, China in 1895-97. He returned to Vermont and served in East Fairfield, Vermont, 1897–98; Westmore, Vermont, 1898–1902; Jericho, Vermont, 1902–04; West Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1904–06; and Hartland, Vermont from 1906-09. Remaining in Harland he collaborated with his Yale football teammate Gifford Pinchot in writing The Country Church - The Decline Of Its Influence and The Remedy published by Macmillan Company in 1913. This led to his appointment as the Secretary of the Committee on Church & Country Life, Social Service Commission, Federal Council of Churches, in Columbus, Ohio, from 1913 to 1919. In that capacity he wrote a second book with Pinchot, Six Thousand Country Churches, published by MacMillan in 1919. While in Ohio he was also Secretary of the Ohio Rurual Life Association, a member of the Commission on Interchurch Cooperation, and Supervisor of rural church survey work for the Interchurch World Movement.[7]
He returned to Vermont as pastor in Hartland until his retirement in 1929, when he relocated to Waterford, Vermont and took up farming. He remained in Waterford until his death on June 2, 1959.[8][9]
Head coaching record
Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP° California (Independent) (1894–1894) 1894 California 0–1–2 California: 0–1–2 1908 New Hampshire 1–7 New Hampshire: 1–7 Total: 1–8–2 †Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches' Poll. References
- ^ [1]
- ^ a b c d "CHARLES GILL, 91, RETIRED MINISTER". The New York Times. June 3, 1959. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60916FE3F59127A93C1A9178DD85F4D8585F9.
- ^ Yale Her Campus Classrooms and Athletics by Walter Camp, L. C. Page and Company, Boston 1899
- ^ a b The Yale Football Story by Tim Cohane, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York 1951
- ^ "Charles O. Gill Records by Year". College Football Data Warehouse. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/coaching/alltime_coach_year_by_year.php?coachid=868. Retrieved 2007-12-01.
- ^ Catalogue of the Delta kappa epsilon fraternity. The Delta kappa epsilon council. 1910. http://books.google.com/books?id=gD04AAAAYAAJ. Retrieved March 25, 2011.
- ^ Football Y Men 1872 - 1919, Men of Yale Series Volume I, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1962
- ^ Union Theological Seminary Alumni Catalogue, 1836-1947
- ^ The Country Life Movement and the American Churches, Merwin Swanson,American Society of Church History, 1977 [2]
California Golden Bears head football coaches No team (1882–1884) • Oscar S. Howard (1885–1886) • No coach (1887) • No team (1888) • No coach (1889–1891) • Lee McClung (1892) • William Heffelfinger (1893) • Charles O. Gill (1894) • Frank Butterworth (1895–1896) • Charles Nott (1897) • Garrett Cochran (1898–1899) • Addison Kelly (1900) • Frank Simpson (1901) • James Whipple (1902–1903) • James Hopper (1904) • J. W. Knibbs (1905) • No team (1906–1914) • James Schaeffer (1915) • Andy Smith (1916–1925) • Nibs Price (1926–1930) • Bill Ingram (1931–1934) • Stub Allison (1935–1944) • Buck Shaw (1945) • Frank Wickhorst (1946) • Pappy Waldorf (1947–1956) • Pete Elliott (1957–1959) • Marv Levy (1960–1963) • Ray Willsey (1964–1971) • Mike White (1972–1977) • Roger Theder (1978–1981) • Joe Kapp (1982–1986) • Bruce Snyder (1987–1991) • Keith Gilbertson (1992–1995) • Steve Mariucci (1996) • Tom Holmoe (1997–2001) • Jeff Tedford (2002– )
New Hampshire Wildcats head football coaches John Scannell (1902–1903) • G. B. Ward (1904) • Edward Herr (1905–1907) • Charles O. Gill (1908) • Willard Gildersleeve (1909) • Ray B. Thomas (1910–1911) • Tod Eberle (1912–1913) • T. D. Sheppard (1914) • Butch Cowell (1915–1917) • No team (1918) • Butch Cowell (1919–1936) • George Sauer (1937–1941) • Charles Justice (1942) • No team (1943) • Charles Justice (1944) • Bill Glassford (1946–1948) • Clarence Boston (1949–1964) • Andy Mooradian (1965) • Joe Yukica (1966–1967) • Jim Root (1968–1971) • Bill Bowes (1972–1998) • Sean McDonnell (1999–)
First College Football All-America Selections (1889) Backfield: QB Edgar Allan Poe • HB Snake Ames; Roscoe Channing • FB James Lee
Line: C William George • G William Heffelfinger, John Cranston • T Hector Cowan, Charles O. Gill • E Amos Alonzo Stagg, Arthur CumnockCategories:- 19th-century players of American football
- California Golden Bears football coaches
- New Hampshire Wildcats football coaches
- Yale Bulldogs football players
- 1868 births
- 1959 deaths
- Yale Divinity School alumni
- American Congregationalist clergy
- Union Theological Seminary (New York) alumni
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