{{Short description|American football player (1901–1935)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}} '''William Sylvester Flanagan'''<ref>"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.</ref><ref name="WBaC">"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.</ref>{{#tag:ref|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]].|group=Note}} (April 9, 1901 – February 19, 1935) played for the [[Louisville (NFL)#Louisville Colonels (1926)|Louisville Colonels]] of the [[National Football League]] during the [[1926 NFL season]].
Flanagan was born on April 9, 1901, in [[Green County, Wisconsin]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FlanBi20.htm|title=Bill Flannigan|publisher=Pro-Football-Reference.com|accessdate=2015-10-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/player/billflannigan/2514120/profile|title=Bill Flannigan|publisher=National Football League|accessdate=2015-10-21}}</ref> the son of William H. Flanagan (1865–1939) and Marie Keegan Flanagan (1882–1972).<ref name="WBaC"/> He attended [[Beloit Memorial High School]] in [[Beloit, Wisconsin]]. He died in 1935.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sylvester Flanagan, 33, Belleville, Buried|work=Wisconsin State Journal|date=February 22, 1935}}</ref>
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