Art Howe ( American football ) Arthur Howe ( March 3 , 1890 – March 28 , 1955 ) was an American football player and coach , teacher , minister and university president . He played college football for Yale University from 1909 to 1911 , was the quarterback of Yale ' s 1909 national championship team , and was a consensus first - team All - American in 1912 . He was the head coach of the 1912 Yale football team . Howe was later ordained as a Presbyterian minister and taught at Eastern preparatory schools and at Dartmouth College . From 1930 to 1940 , he was the president of Hampton University . He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973 . Early years . Howe was born in South Orange , New Jersey , in 1890 . His father , Solomon Howe ( born April 1856 ) , was a Massachusetts native and was a wholesaler dealer of dry goods . His mother , Mable Howe ( born September 1863 ) , was a New York native . Howe played high school football at Columbia High School in Maplewood , New Jersey and at The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville , Connecticut . Yale . Howe enrolled at Yale University in 1908 . He played for the Yale Bulldogs football team as a quarterback from 1909 to 1911 . As a sophomore in 1909 , Howe led the team to a perfect 10 – 0 record , as the Yale team outscored its opponents by a combined score of 209 – 0 . At the end of the 1909 season , Howe was selected as a second - team All - American by Walter Camp . After another strong year in 1910 , Howe was unanimously elected by his teammates as the captain of Yale ' s 1911 football team . As a senior , he set a collegiate record by returning 18 kicks in a November 1911 game against Princeton . After the 1911 season , Howe was selected as the first - team All - American quarterback by " Collier ' s Weekly " ( as selected by Walter Camp ) , " The New York Globe " , W . S . Farnsworth , Dr . Henry L . Williams , and Charles Chadwick . While attending Yale , Howe was , according to profile in the " Boston Daily Globe " , also a leader in religious life at the university , the strongest man in his class , an excellent scholar , and one of the best hockey players in college . At the end of December 1911 , Howe agreed to return in the fall of 1912 as the school ' s head football coach , after graduating with Yale ' s Class of 1912 . In his one year as head coach , Howe led the 1912 Yale football team to a 7 – 1 – 1 record , with the only loss coming against that year ' s national championship team from Harvard . During the period from 1899 to 1912 , Yale had 14 different head football coaches in 14 years – despite compiling a combined record of 127 – 11 – 10 in those years . During that 14 - year span , the Yale football team has also been recognized as the national championship team by one or more of the major national championship selectors on seven occasions – 1900 ( Billingsley , Helms , Houlgate , National Championship Foundation , Parke Davis ) , 1901 ( Parke Davis ) , 1902 ( Parke Davis ) , 1905 ( Parke Davis , Whitney ) , 1906 ( Billingsley , Parke Davis , Whitney ) , 1907 ( Billingsley , Helms , Houlgate , National Championship Foundation , Parke Davis , Whitney ) , and 1909 ( Billingsley , Helms , Houlgate , National Championship Foundation , Parke Davis ) . Seminary and teaching career . After leaving Yale , Howe enrolled at the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York . He graduated from the seminary in 1916 and became a Presbyterian minister . In June 1916 , Howe was hired as a teacher and coach at the Loomis Institute ( now known as The Loomis Chaffee School ) in Windsor , Connecticut . In a draft registration card completed in June 1917 , Howe indicated that he was living in Windsor , Connecticut , and was employed as the chaplain at the Loomis Institute . In approximately 1920 , Howe left the Loomis School and joined the faculty of the Taft School in Watertown , Connecticut . Howe was a teacher and the chaplain at the Taft School through most of the 1920s . At the time of the 1920 United States Census , Howe was living in Watertown with his wife Margaret and their two children . Howe ' s occupation at the time was listed as a professor at the Taft School . After leaving the Taft School , Howe became a professor of citizenship at Dartmouth College . He remained at Dartmouth from approximately 1929 to 1930 . At the time of the 1930 United States Census , Howe was living in Hanover , New Hampshire , with his wife Margaret and their daughter and four sons . His occupation was listed as a minister and teacher at Dartmouth College . Hampton Institute . In November 1930 , Howe was selected as the president of Hampton Institute ( now known as Hampton University ) , a historically black university in Hampton , Virginia . The university had been founded by Howe ' s father - in - law , Gen . Samuel Chapman Armstrong , in 1869 . He served as the president at Hampton for nearly a decade . In the last couple years of his administration , Howe faced increasing agitation from students and alumni seeking reforms , including an increase in African - American faculty representation and equal pay for African - American faculty members . Howe resigned as Hampton ' s president effective June 1940 . Howe ' s wife , Margaret Armstrong Howe , continued to serve as a trustee of Hampton until her death in 1971 . Later years . From 1940 to 1949 , Howe was the managing director of the Welfare Federation of the Oranges and Maplewood in New Jersey . In a draft registration card completed in 1942 , Howe indicated that he was living with his wife Margaret in East Orange , New Jersey , and that he was employed by the Welfare Federation . He also served as chairman of the Tilton , New Hampshire School for Wayward Boys . Family , death and posthumous honors . In August 1916 , Howe was married to Margaret Marshall Armstrong in a ceremony held at the Chocorua Chapel on Chocorua Island in Lake Asquam , near Chocorua , New Hampshire . They had a daughter ( Alice ) and four sons ( Harold , Arthur , Jr . , Richard and Sydney ) . In 1955 , Howe died after a short illness at Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth , New Hampshire . He was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1973 .