Hank Ketcham (American football)

Hank Ketcham

Ketcham at Yale in 1913
Yale Bulldogs
Position	Center, Guard
Personal information
Born:	(1891-06-17)June 17, 1891 Englewood, New Jersey
Died:	November 1986 (aged 95) Seattle, Washington
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Career history
College	Yale (1911–1913)
Career highlights and awards
2× Consensus All-American (1911, 1912)
College Football Hall of Fame (1968)

Henry Holman "Hank" Ketcham (June 17, 1891 – November 1986) was an American college football player who was a center and guard positions for the Yale Bulldogs football team of Yale University. Ketcham was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American in 1911 and 1912, and as a second-team selection in 1913. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1968.

Biography[]

Ketcham was born in Englewood, New Jersey. After attending the Hotchkiss School, he enrolled at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.^[1] He played every game for Yale's varsity football team in 1911, 1912, and 1913. He helped lead Yale to a 7–2–1 record in 1911 and a 7–1–1 record in 1912 and was a consensus All-American in both of those years. In 1913, Ketcham was selected as the captain of Yale's football team. In a departure from past tradition at Yale, Ketcham appointed Howard Jones as the school's first salaried football coach. Ketcham later recalled: "I played every varsity game for three years and was taken out only once for a slight injury … I am generally credited with having developed the term 'roving center'. Except for today's platoon systems, football hasn't changed materially. We had the on-side kick, the ball was a bit larger in circumference and the drop kick was more popular than the place kick."^[2]

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