David Gardiner "Dode" Phillips III (January 2, 1900 – December 29, 1965) was an American football player and coach.
[3] He also played several years of minor league baseball before committing to coaching full-time at Moultrie High School in Georgia.
[5] Phillips worked for NBC WFBC as a sports analyst and color commentator in 1937 and 1938 before returning to the sideline as an assistant for Jakie Todd at Erskine.
[7] In 1950, a pool of sportswriters named him the best athlete of the first half of the 20th century in South Carolina.
[12] In 1965, just before his death, Phillips was selected to be admitted to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame.