:Fred Vail
{{Short description|American football, basketball, and baseball coach (1875–1954)}}
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Fred Vail
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|7|31}}
| birth_place = Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|2|1|1875|7|31}}
| death_place = Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=omJLAAAAYAAJ&q=%22kenna%22|title=Football at the University of Richmond, 1878-1948|last1=Bailey|first1=John Wendell|year=1949}}
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1902
| coach_team2 = Penn (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1903
| coach_team3 = Richmond
| coach_years4 = 1904–1906
| coach_team4 = Gettysburg
| coach_years5 = 1907–1908
| coach_team5 = Earlham
| coach_years6 = 1909–1911
| coach_team6 = Gettysburg
| coach_sport7 = Basketball
| coach_years8 = 1907–1909
| coach_team8 = Earlham
| coach_years9 = 1908–1914
| coach_team9 = Gettysburg
| coach_sport10 = Baseball
| coach_years11 = 1908–1909
| coach_team11 = Earlham
| coach_years12 = 1908–1911
| coach_team12 = Gettysburg
| overall_record = 46–31–5 (football)
52–51 (basketball)
14–25–1 (baseball)
| bowl_record =
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| championships = Football
1 EVIAA (1903)
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}}
Frederick Clifton Vail (July 31, 1875 – February 1, 1954) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Richmond College—now known as the University of Richmond—in 1903, at Gettysburg College from 1904 to 1906 and again from 1909 to 1911, and at Earlham College from 1907 to 1908, compiling a career college football record of 46–31–5. At Gettysburg, Vail was also the head basketball coach from 1908 to 1914 and the head baseball coach in 1910 and 1911.
Coaching career
Vail was an assistant at Germantown Academy in Philadelphia and then the University of Pennsylvania under Carl S. Williams.{{cite news |author= |title=Vail Selected As Earlham Coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84849170/the-richmond-item/ |newspaper=Evening Item |location=Richmond, Indiana |date=July 25, 1907 |page=3 |access-date=September 6, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}{{cite news |author= |title=New Coach For Earlham |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84850268/the-star-press/ |newspaper=The Star Press |location=Muncie, Indiana |date=August 9, 1907 |page=7 |access-date=September 6, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Vail was the 14th head football coach at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, serving for one season, in 1903, and compiling a record of 6–3–1.
Death
Vail died on February 1, 1954, in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.{{cite news |author= |title=Vail |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84850573/obituary-for-fred-c-vail/ |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |date=August 9, 1907 |page=7 |access-date=September 6, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
=Football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Richmond Spiders
| conf = Eastern Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association
| startyear = 1903
| endyear = single
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1903
| name = Richmond
| overall = 6–3–1
| conference = 3–0
| confstanding = 1st
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Richmond
| overall = 6–3–1
| confrecord = 3–0
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Gettysburg
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1904
| endyear = 1906
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1904
| name = Gettysburg
| overall = 5–3–2
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1905
| name = Gettysburg
| overall = 7–3
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1906
| name = Gettysburg
| overall = 7–1–2
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Earlham Quakers
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1907
| endyear = 1908
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1907
| name = Earlham
| overall = 5–3
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1908
| name = Earlham
| overall = 2–5
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Earlham
| overall = 7–8
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Gettysburg
| conf = Independent
| startyear = 1909
| endyear = 1911
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1909
| name = Gettysburg
| overall = 4–5
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
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{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1910
| name = Gettysburg
| overall = 6–3
| conference =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1911
| name = Gettysburg
| overall = 4–5
| conference =
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| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Gettysburg
| overall = 33–20–4
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{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 46–31–5
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
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References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|198613213|Frederick Clifton Vail}}
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