:Ross O'Hanley

{{Short description|American football player (1939–1972)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| name = Ross O'Hanley

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| number = 25

| position = Defensive back

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1939|2|2|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Everett, Massachusetts

| death_date = {{death date and age|1972|04|7|1939|02|2}}

| death_place = Needham, Massachusetts

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lbs = 183

| high_school = Christopher Columbus (Boston, Massachusetts)

| college = Boston College

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| pastteams =

• Boston Patriots (1960–1965)
• Miami Dolphins (1966)

| highlights =

• TSN All-AFL (1960)
• 1959 Scanlan Award

| pfr = O/OHanRo20

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Ross O'Hanley (February 2, 1939{{spaced ndash}}April 7, 1972) was an American football safety with the Boston Patriots of the American Football League from 1960 to 1965. He was an All-League AFL player in 1960.

O'Hanley was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the 1966 AFL expansion draft but never played a game for them. He suffered a severe thigh bruise during the preseason and missed the 1966 season, and was cut and retired before the 1967 season.{{cite book|title=Promises to Keep|author=Braucher, Bill|year=1972|isbn=0396066941|publisher=Dodd, Mead & Company|pages=49, 100, 235, 261}}

After his football playing days, O'Hanley first turned to coaching. O'Hanley coached the Lowell/Quincy Giants of the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) from 1968 to 1969.{{cite web | url=https://www.profootballarchives.com/coach/ohan00200coach.html | title=Ross O'Hanley NFL Coaching Record and Bio - Pro Football Archives }}

After coaching, he worked as a high school math teacher and as aide in the Massachusetts attorney general's office, before being struck by a brain tumor in 1971.