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Benjamin Shenstone "Sport" Donnelley was an American football player and coach. He was the second-known professional player in the sport's history, having been paid to play a game in 1892 for the Allegheny Athletic Association—just one week after the same team hired Pudge Heffelfinger for a game. In the next year Donnelly was hired by the Allegheny Athletic Association as player-coach, making him the first man to ever coach a known professional football team. A star end in his college days at Princeton, he went on to play for several athletic clubs during the 1890s and was reputed for his rough style of play and for antagonizing opposing players.
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