Louis De Pui "Bucker" Vail (September 18, 1870 – December 16, 1948) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

player and coach. Vail played football and graduated from

Germantown Academy Germantown Academy, informally known as GA and originally known as the Union School, is the oldest nonsectarian day school in the United States. The school was founded on December 6, 1759, by a group of prominent Germantown citizens in the Gree ...

. He attended the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

, 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 The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

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 The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

, coaching for one season in 1894 and compiling a record of 4–4. Vail coached at

Case School of Applied Science The Case School of Engineering is the engineering school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It traces its roots to the 1880 founding of the Case School of Applied Science. It became the Case Institute of Technology in 1947 ...

for one game in 1895 before the season was cancelled.

Head coaching record

References

1870 births 1948 deaths Case Western Spartans football coaches Illinois Fighting Illini football coaches Penn Quakers baseball players Penn Quakers football players University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni {{1890s-collegefootball-coach-stub