Ben Ticknor

Ben Ticknor

Ticknor, 1930 Harvard official team photograph
No. 55
Position	Center
Class	1931
Personal information
Born:	(1909-01-08)January 8, 1909 Canton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died:	February 12, 1979(1979-02-12) (aged 70) Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight	193 lb (88 kg)
Career history
College	Harvard (1928–1930)
High school	Milton Academy (Milton, Massachusetts)
Career highlights and awards
Unanimous All-American (1930) Consensus All-American (1929) 2× First-team All-Eastern (1929, 1930)
College Football Hall of Fame (1954)

Benjamin Holt Ticknor II (January 9, 1909 – September 12, 1979) was an American college football player. He was a prominent center for the Harvard Crimson, also known for his play on defense.

Ticknor was the son of William Davis Ticknor Sr. (1881–1938) and Ella Frances Wattles (1880–1963). His grandfather was another Benjamin Holt Ticknor and his great-grandfather another William Davis Ticknor of Ticknor and Fields.

Ticknor was captain of the 1930 team. He is remembered as one of Harvard's greatest athletes: two-time All-American footballer and Harvard's only member of the National Football Hall of Fame since the First World War. He was equally gifted in baseball; as a Crimson outfielder, he led the team in batting in 1930 and set Harvard's then- career home-run record (13). Ticknor won the university's Wingate Trophy (presented annually to the highest scorer in safe arrivals at first, stolen bases, sacrifice hits, and total runs) in 1930 and Wendell Bat in 1931.

Harvard football did not see its success of old during Ticknor's era, but he relished the beatings of rival Yale. Ticknor was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954.

External links

• Ben Ticknor at the College Football Hall of Fame
• Ben Ticknor at Find a Grave