Position Running back | Role Football player Name Dode Phillips | |
Died December 29, 1965, Due West, South Carolina, United States | ||
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David Gardiner "Dode" Phillips, III (January 2, 1900 – December 29, 1965) was a college football player and coach. He coached at Anderson High School and then his alma mater. He also played a year of minor league baseball before coaching at Moultrie High School in Georgia. Moultrie High won the south Georgia title in 1928.
In 1950, a pool of sportswriters named him the best athlete of the first half of the 20th century in South Carolina. Phillips played for the Erskine Flying Fleet of Erskine College. He was inducted to the school's sports hall of fame. Some writers picked him All-Southern in 1921.
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