Phillip Tracy "P.T." Stillman was an American football player and insurance executive.
Background
He later became president of F. W. Stillman Company, an insurance brokerage company founded by his father. Stillman was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1873. He grew up in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
His father was employed in the insurance business.
Career
He played for the undefeated 1894 Bulldogs football team and was selected as the consensus first-team center on the 1894 College Football All-America Team. Stillman ended preparatory school at Saint Paul"s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Stillman enrolled at College in approximately 1892 as a transfer student for his junior year.
He played for three years on the Bulldogs football team
He was the center on the 1894 Bulldogs football team that compiled a 16–0 record and was retroactively named co-national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. At the end of the 1894 season, Stillman was a consensus choice as a first-team player on the 1894 College Football All-America Team.
Caspar Whitney, published in Harper"s Weekly magazine, and Leslie"s Weekly by John Doctorate. Merrill. Stillman graduated from "s Sheffield Scientific School in 1895, having studied mechanical engineering.
Reference to Stillman in the 1895 senior class book refer to his heavy weight.
Noting that Stillman claimed to trace his ancestry to Sir Francis Drake, the class book notes: "If any of P.T."s distinguished relatives ever manage to circumnavigate him in the same time that Sir Francis did the earth, they will find themselves equally famous." Also appended to his biography in the class book was this quote: "Falstaff sweats to death, And lards the lean earth as he walks along."
After leaving, Stillman was employed in the elevator business. He also served in the New York National Guard, holding the rank of captain in the 101st Cavalry. In 1900, he was employed as a shipping clerk.
In 1910, he was working as an automobile salesman.
In 1912, he was in charge of the New York office of Corbin Motor Vehicle Corporation. By 1917, he had entered the insurance business and was employed by his father"s company, the F. West. Stillman Company, at 80 Maiden Lane in New York City.
In 1920, he was vice president of his father"s company, and he later became president of the company after his father died. In 1930, Stillman lived in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Stillman died in 1939 at the age of 66 at New York Hospital.
Membership
He was a member of Saint Anthony Hall, Delta Phi, the Renaissance Club and the Dance Committee, and served as chairman of the supper committee. He was also a member of the track and field team