American football player (born 1958)
American football player
Kenny Hill
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Position:
| Safety
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Born:
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1958-07-25
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July 25, 1958
(age 65)
Oak Grove, Louisiana
, U.S.
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Height:
| 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
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Weight:
| 194 lb (88 kg)
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High school:
| Oak Grove
(Oak Grove, Louisiana)
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College:
| Yale
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NFL draft:
| 1980
/ Round: 8 / Pick: 194
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Player stats at
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Kenneth Wayne Hill
(born July 25, 1958) is a former
National Football League
(NFL) player whose career lasted ten seasons, from 1980 until 1989. Hill played for the
Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
,
New York Giants
, and
Kansas City Chiefs
and earned three
Super Bowl
rings, the first two with the 1980 and 1983 Raiders, the third with the 1986 New York Giants. Hill is the first and only
Ivy League
football athlete to have played on three Super Bowl championship teams.
Hill played college football at
Yale University
, coached by
College Football Hall of Fame
member
Carmen Cozza
. Hill lettered three years, amassing 1594 rushing yards on 356 carries.
[1]
He gained 910 yards rushing his junior year
[2]
and returned kickoffs and punts on special teams during three varsity seasons. Hill was named to the 1979 All-Ivy League First-team and 1978 All-Ivy League Second-team.
[3]
Hill majored in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
[4]
Hill had signed a letter of intent to play football at
Louisiana State
for
Charlie McClendon
, another member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Hill was recruited by LSU to play defensive back. "I can't blame him for going to Yale. He's very bright," McClendon remarked. Hill turned down football scholarship offers from, among others, the football programs at
Baylor
,
Mississippi
,
Mississippi State
, and
Tulane
.
[5]
Hill, a varsity track letterwinner at Yale for Coach
Lee Calhoun
, had been timed at 4.46 in the forty yard dash, and 9.7 in the 100 yard dash in college. Calhoun thought Hill could run a 9.5 in the 100 if he concentrated on track.
[6]
Hill, like former Yale football athletes
Don Martin
,
Dick Jauron
and fellow
Super Bowl
champion
Gary Fencik
, converted successfully to
defensive back
in the NFL from running back or wide receiver.
[7]
References
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edit
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http://www.sports
Archived
2013-08-17 at the
Wayback Machine
preference.com/cfb/players/Ken-hill-1.html
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Yale University Official Football Program, October 27, 1979,
Pennsylvania
Vs. Yale, "A New Pro Prospect Named Hill", pg. 15, by line Jon Stein, The
New Haven Register
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Harvard Crimson
, "It's All-Ivy Time", November 28, 1978, by line John Donley
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Bernstein, Mark F (2001).
Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession
. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 243.
ISBN
9780812236279
. Retrieved
27 February
2016
.
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1979 Pennsylvania Vs. Yale program, pg.15
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"Lee Calhoun, 56, a Star Hurdler"
.
The New York Times
. 22 June 1989.
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1979 Pennsylvania Vs. Yale program, pg.15