Peter Philip Mailhes (March 9, 1894 – May 23, 1965) was a

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player and coach for the Tulane Green Wave football team of Tulane University. Mailhes was inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.

Tulane University

Playing career

Football

He was a prominent

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and

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for the Tulane Green Wave. He was "the greatest Tulane lineman of his day."

=1915

= He was

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and All-Southern for the 1915 team. One source describes him as "One of the greatest tackles of the South and captain of his eleven. Equally famed in baseball, basketball, track and field athletics.

Baseball

Mailhes also played baseball.

Coaching career

He then was a long-standing member of the Tulane coaching staff.

References

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