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Hank Ketcham (American football)

American football player (1891–1986)

Summary

American football player (1891–1986)

Field	Value
name	Hank Ketcham
image	Henry H. Ketcham.jpg
caption	Ketcham at Yale in 1913
position	Center, guard
class	1914
birth_date
birth_place	Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
height_ft	6
height_in	0
weight_lb	175
CFBHOF_id	1338
CFBHOF_year	1968

Yale (1911–1913)
Englewood (NJ)
Hotchkiss School (CT)
2× Consensus All-American (1911, 1912)
Second-team All-American (1913) Henry Holman Ketcham (June 17, 1891 – November 1, 1986) was an American college football player who played at the center and guard positions for the Yale Bulldogs football team. Ketcham was a consensus All-America first-team selection in 1911 and 1912, and 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,{{efn|Ketcham's entry in his Yale class history gives his birth location as Highwood,

Ketcham 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-America Team selection for both of those seasons. In December 1912, Ketcham was selected as captain of the 1913 Yale football team. In a departure from past tradition at Yale, Ketcham subsequently 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."

At the time he graduated from Yale, Ketchum expected to work in railroading, having worked during one summer for the Big Four Railroad.

Ketcham served in the United States Army as a lieutenant during World War I, from May 1917 to April 1919.

Ketcham moved to Seattle and entered the lumber business, eventually owning a lumber wholesale business. Three of their sons went on to found the West Fraser Timber company.

In February 1968, Ketcham was selected as an inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame. He died in 1986, aged 95.

Notes

References

(1914). "History of the Class of 1914". [[Yale College]].
(December 4, 1912). "Ketcham is Yale Captain". [[The New York Times]].
(February 16, 1913). "Howard Jones Yale Coach". [[The New York Times]].
"Henry Ketcham (1968)".
"WWI New York Army Cards". [[New York State Archives]].
(September 18, 1921). "Miss Peters to Wed Henry H. Ketcham". [[Brooklyn Times-Union]].
(November 11, 1921). "Seattle Society (column)". [[The Seattle Star]].
(December 17, 1995). "The anchor of S.S. West Fraser". Quesnel Cariboo Observer.
(February 14, 1968). "Top Coach, Ex-Players Enter Hall". [[The Spokesman-Review]].

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