American Olympic athlete. Member of the United States Olympic track and field team for the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, competing under the colors of the Cleveland Athletic Association. He participated in the shot put (5th), discus throw (7), and decathlon (did not finish--native-American athlete Jim Thorpe won that event).
Philbrook was a Notre Dame University athlete from 1908 to 1912, class of 1912. He was a star athlete in the discus, shot put, and high jump, and also played guard/tackle with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team for three years, along with famed future Notre Dame football coach Knut Rockne, with whom he was a roommate. They both held Notre Dame records that lasted well into the 1920s, discus throw for Philbrook, javelin for Rockne. Philbrook coached the Notre Dame football line in his senior year.
Philbook and Notre Dame football players Ralph Dimmick and Lee Matthews were the center of a controversy that led to the cancellation if the annual Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. They had returned for the 1909 season, but Michigan said they were ineligibe to play under the rule that limited players to a total three years of intercollegiate football. They alleged Dimmick and Philbrook were in their seventh years of college football, after having played one season at the University of Pacific in Oregon, three at Whitman College in Washington state, and two previous years at Notre Dame. Matthews had played at the University of Washington in 1907 and the two previous years at Notre Dame. Notre Dame countered that Pacific and Whitman weren’t included on the Conference’s roster colleges used to incounting such years of eligibility, therefore Philbrook was only in his third year. Michigan filed an official protest to Notre Dame four days before the game. Neither side backed down, and Michigan cancelled the game.
After graduating from Notre Dame, Philbrook went on to compete with the Cleveland Athletic Club, and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1919 to coach the track team of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. He led them to an unbroken string of victories, and was then given the position as club coach and chairman of the football program the same year. He was also a successful in the insurance business in Portland. He had been recruited to coach the University of Oregon football team varsity line, and freshman team, but they could not agree on a contract.
Philbrook coached track for the University of Idaho, and also at Whitman, Nevada and The University of Portland. He coached football at Nevada-Reno from 1929 to 1931.
His date of death is listed as March 29th in some newspaper accounts.
Philbrook was a Notre Dame University athlete from 1908 to 1912, class of 1912. He was a star athlete in the discus, shot put, and high jump, and also played guard/tackle with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team for three years, along with famed future Notre Dame football coach Knut Rockne, with whom he was a roommate. They both held Notre Dame records that lasted well into the 1920s, discus throw for Philbrook, javelin for Rockne. Philbrook coached the Notre Dame football line in his senior year.
Philbook and Notre Dame football players Ralph Dimmick and Lee Matthews were the center of a controversy that led to the cancellation if the annual Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. They had returned for the 1909 season, but Michigan said they were ineligibe to play under the rule that limited players to a total three years of intercollegiate football. They alleged Dimmick and Philbrook were in their seventh years of college football, after having played one season at the University of Pacific in Oregon, three at Whitman College in Washington state, and two previous years at Notre Dame. Matthews had played at the University of Washington in 1907 and the two previous years at Notre Dame. Notre Dame countered that Pacific and Whitman weren’t included on the Conference’s roster colleges used to incounting such years of eligibility, therefore Philbrook was only in his third year. Michigan filed an official protest to Notre Dame four days before the game. Neither side backed down, and Michigan cancelled the game.
After graduating from Notre Dame, Philbrook went on to compete with the Cleveland Athletic Club, and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1919 to coach the track team of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. He led them to an unbroken string of victories, and was then given the position as club coach and chairman of the football program the same year. He was also a successful in the insurance business in Portland. He had been recruited to coach the University of Oregon football team varsity line, and freshman team, but they could not agree on a contract.
Philbrook coached track for the University of Idaho, and also at Whitman, Nevada and The University of Portland. He coached football at Nevada-Reno from 1929 to 1931.
His date of death is listed as March 29th in some newspaper accounts.
American Olympic athlete. Member of the United States Olympic track and field team for the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, competing under the colors of the Cleveland Athletic Association. He participated in the shot put (5th), discus throw (7), and decathlon (did not finish--native-American athlete Jim Thorpe won that event).
Philbrook was a Notre Dame University athlete from 1908 to 1912, class of 1912. He was a star athlete in the discus, shot put, and high jump, and also played guard/tackle with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team for three years, along with famed future Notre Dame football coach Knut Rockne, with whom he was a roommate. They both held Notre Dame records that lasted well into the 1920s, discus throw for Philbrook, javelin for Rockne. Philbrook coached the Notre Dame football line in his senior year.
Philbook and Notre Dame football players Ralph Dimmick and Lee Matthews were the center of a controversy that led to the cancellation if the annual Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. They had returned for the 1909 season, but Michigan said they were ineligibe to play under the rule that limited players to a total three years of intercollegiate football. They alleged Dimmick and Philbrook were in their seventh years of college football, after having played one season at the University of Pacific in Oregon, three at Whitman College in Washington state, and two previous years at Notre Dame. Matthews had played at the University of Washington in 1907 and the two previous years at Notre Dame. Notre Dame countered that Pacific and Whitman weren’t included on the Conference’s roster colleges used to incounting such years of eligibility, therefore Philbrook was only in his third year. Michigan filed an official protest to Notre Dame four days before the game. Neither side backed down, and Michigan cancelled the game.
After graduating from Notre Dame, Philbrook went on to compete with the Cleveland Athletic Club, and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1919 to coach the track team of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. He led them to an unbroken string of victories, and was then given the position as club coach and chairman of the football program the same year. He was also a successful in the insurance business in Portland. He had been recruited to coach the University of Oregon football team varsity line, and freshman team, but they could not agree on a contract.
Philbrook coached track for the University of Idaho, and also at Whitman, Nevada and The University of Portland. He coached football at Nevada-Reno from 1929 to 1931.
His date of death is listed as March 29th in some newspaper accounts.
Philbrook was a Notre Dame University athlete from 1908 to 1912, class of 1912. He was a star athlete in the discus, shot put, and high jump, and also played guard/tackle with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team for three years, along with famed future Notre Dame football coach Knut Rockne, with whom he was a roommate. They both held Notre Dame records that lasted well into the 1920s, discus throw for Philbrook, javelin for Rockne. Philbrook coached the Notre Dame football line in his senior year.
Philbook and Notre Dame football players Ralph Dimmick and Lee Matthews were the center of a controversy that led to the cancellation if the annual Notre Dame-Michigan game in 1909. They had returned for the 1909 season, but Michigan said they were ineligibe to play under the rule that limited players to a total three years of intercollegiate football. They alleged Dimmick and Philbrook were in their seventh years of college football, after having played one season at the University of Pacific in Oregon, three at Whitman College in Washington state, and two previous years at Notre Dame. Matthews had played at the University of Washington in 1907 and the two previous years at Notre Dame. Notre Dame countered that Pacific and Whitman weren’t included on the Conference’s roster colleges used to incounting such years of eligibility, therefore Philbrook was only in his third year. Michigan filed an official protest to Notre Dame four days before the game. Neither side backed down, and Michigan cancelled the game.
After graduating from Notre Dame, Philbrook went on to compete with the Cleveland Athletic Club, and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1919 to coach the track team of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club. He led them to an unbroken string of victories, and was then given the position as club coach and chairman of the football program the same year. He was also a successful in the insurance business in Portland. He had been recruited to coach the University of Oregon football team varsity line, and freshman team, but they could not agree on a contract.
Philbrook coached track for the University of Idaho, and also at Whitman, Nevada and The University of Portland. He coached football at Nevada-Reno from 1929 to 1931.
His date of death is listed as March 29th in some newspaper accounts.
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