Education
Born in Walpole, Massachusetts, Gill graduated from Yale in 1889, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
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Career
With Gifford Pinchot he co-authored two influential books on the state of rural churches in the United States. Gill played American football for Yale University from 1885 to 1889. He was Captain of the Yale team and was on the first College Football All-America Team in 1889.
He was the head coach of the California (1894) and New Hampshire (1908) college football programs.
He played football at Yale from 1885 to 1889. In 1888 the team went undefeated and was not scored upon.
In 1889, Gill was captain of the team under coach Walter Camp and that year Yale scored 665 points while only giving up 31 points to their opponents. That year Caspar Whitney selected Gill and teammates Amos Alonzo Stagg and William Heffelfinger for the first ever College Football All-America Team.
He returned to Vermont and served in East Fairfield, Vermont, 1897-1898.
Westmore, Vermont, 1898–1902. Jericho, Vermont, 1902-1904. West Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1904-1906.
And Hartland, Vermont from 1906-1909.
Remaining in Harland he collaborated with his Yale football teammate Gifford Pinchot in writing The Country Church - The Decline Of Its Influence and The Remedy published by Macmillan Company in 1913. This led to his appointment as the Secretary of the Committee on Church & Country Life, Social Service Commission, Federal Council of Churches, in Columbus, Ohio, from 1913 to 1919.
In that capacity he wrote a second book with Pinchot, Six Thousand Country Churches, published by MacMillan in 1919. He returned to Vermont as pastor in Hartland until his retirement in 1929, when he relocated to Waterford, Vermont and took up farming.
He remained in Waterford until his death on June 2, 1959.
Membership
While in Ohio he was also Secretary of the Ohio Rurual Life Association, a member of the Commission on Interchurch Cooperation, and Supervisor of rural church survey work for the Interchurch World Movement.
