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Edward Kimball "E. K." Hall (June 9, 1870 – November 10, 1932) was an American football and baseball player and coach, college athletics administrator, lawyer, and business executive. He played college football at Dartmouth College from 1889 to 1891 and then served as the athletic director and head football and baseball coach at the University of Illinois from 1892 to 1894. His business career included employment as a vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company from 1919 to 1930. He also served as a director of several companies, including Atlas Corporation, Electric Bond and Share Company, and United Fruit Company. Hall gained his greatest notoriety from his work as an administrator in the formative years of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). After a spate of fatalities in 1905, football came under fire from college administrators, alumni, and President Theodore Roosevelt. The NCAA was formed in March 1906 in response to the controversy, and Hall was chosen to develop changes in the rules to make the game safer and more interesting. He replaced Walter Camp as secretary of college football's rules committee in 1906 and served as the committee's chairman from 1911 until his death in 1932. ==Early years== Hall was born in 1870 in Granville, Illinois, approximately 100 miles southwest of Chicago. His father, Charles Prentiss Hall, was a New Hampshire native, teacher and high school principal who had served in the 14th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. His mother, Lucia Cotton Kimball Hall, was also a New Hampshire native. By 1880, Hall had moved to Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where his father became the superintendent of schools.〔〔Census entry for Charles P. Hall and family. Son Edward K., age 9, born in Illinois. Ancestry.com. 1880 United States Federal Census (on-line ). Census Place: Hinsdale, Cheshire, New Hampshire; Roll: 761; Family History Film: 1254761; Page: 64A; Enumeration District: 051; Image: 0129.〕 Hall attended preparatory school at the St. Johnsbury Academy in Vermont. He then attended Oberlin College in Ohio for one year before enrolling at Dartmouth College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College )〕 He played at the end position on the Dartmouth football team and was captain of the 1891 team. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward K. Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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