Ed Hall

Who was Ed Hall?

Edward Kimball "E. K." Hall was an American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and public utilities executive. He served as the third head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, coaching two seasons from 1892 to 1893 and compiling a record of 10–6–4. He was also the first head baseball coach at Illinois, coaching three seasons from 1892 to 1894 and tallying a mark of 30–17. Hall earned an LLB from Harvard Law School in 1896. He served as the chairman of the American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee from 1911 until his death in 1932, and is credited with developing the first football players' code of conduct. Hall was also a vice president for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company from 1919 until 1930, when he resigned to lecture at the Tuck School of Business. He died at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire on November 10, 1932. Hall was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as coach and contributor in 1951.