Bill Flanagan (American football)
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William Sylvester Flanagan[1][2][Note 1] (April 9, 1901 – February 19, 1935) played for the Louisville Colonels of the National Football League during the 1926 NFL season.
Flanagan was born on April 9, 1901, in Green County, Wisconsin,[3][4] the son of William H. Flanagan (1865–1939) and Marie Keegan Flanagan (1882–1972).[2] He attended Beloit Memorial High School in Beloit, Wisconsin. He died in 1935.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ His surname is also spelled Flannigan and Flanigan in various vital records, but the spelling Flanagan is found in his obituary in the Wisconsin State Journal and on his gravestone (Sylvester W. Flanagan) at Calvary Cemetery in Monroe, Wisconsin.
References
[edit]- ^ "Wisconsin Birth Index, 1820–1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHH9-5GF : 4 December 2014), William S Flannigan, 09 Apr 1901; from "Wisconsin Births, 1820–1907," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing Green, Wisconsin, reel 0078, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Vital Records Division, Madison.
- ^ a b "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826–1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRJY-SVY : 12 December 2014), Wm. Sylvester Flannigan, 09 Apr 1901; citing Adams, Green, Wisconsin, reference item 1 cn 2417; FHL microfilm 1,302,876.
- ^ "Bill Flannigan". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ^ "Bill Flannigan". National Football League. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ^ "Sylvester Flanagan, 33, Belleville, Buried". Wisconsin State Journal. February 22, 1935.
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