James John Quill was an American football player and coach.
He was a graduate of both Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and the Yale Law School.
[1] Quill's hit on Francis Burr in the 1905 Harvard–Yale football game was a catalyst for major reforms in the game of college football.
[2] He served as the head football coach at Sewanee: The University of the South in 1906, compiling a record of 8–1.
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