Ed Hake

Ed Hake
Date of birth: April 7, 1904
Place of birth: Michigan
Date of death: September 1978 (aged 74)
Place of death: Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania
Career information
Position(s): Tackle
College: University of Pennsylvania
Organizations
As player:
1926–1927 Penn Quakers
Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (1927)

Edward W. Hake (April 7, 1904 – September 1978) was an American football player. A native of Michigan, he played college football at the University of Pennsylvania and was a consensus selection at the tackle position on the 1927 College Football All-America Team.[1] He was also elected as the captain of the 1927 Penn football team.[2]

In 1940, Hake was employed as an insurance broker and was living in Philadelphia with his wife, Celeste, and their son, Tucker.[3] He died in 1978 in Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, at the age of 74.[4]

References

  1. "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 5. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  2. "Hake Elected Captain of 1927 Penn Eleven". The Cornell Daily Sun. November 26, 1926.
  3. 1940 U.S. Census entry for Edward W. Hake, age 35, born in Michigan. Census Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roll: T627_3704; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 51-572. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
  4. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Edward Hake, last residence 18074 Perkiomenville, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA, born 7 Apr 1904, died September 1978, SSN issued Pennsylvania (Before 1951).