Ray D. Hahn
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{{Infobox college coach
| name = Ray D. Hahn
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|11|19}}
| birth_place = Clay Center, Kansas, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|11|8|1897|11|19}}
| death_place = Lindsborg, Kansas, U.S.
| alma_mater =
| player_sport1 = Football
| player_years2 = 1920–1922
| player_team2 = Kansas State
| player_years3 = 1926
| player_team3 = Hammond Pros
| player_sport4 = Basketball
| player_years5 = 1921–1923
| player_team5 = Kansas State
| player_positions = Guard (football)
| coach_sport1 = Football
| coach_years2 = 1923
| coach_team2 = Norton HS (KS)
| coach_years3 = 1924–1927
| coach_team3 = Downers Grove HS (IL)
| coach_years4 = 1928
| coach_team4 = Chadron Normal (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1929–1934
| coach_team5 = South Dakota Mines
| coach_years6 = 1938–1942
| coach_team6 = Bethany (KS)
| coach_years7 = 1943–1945
| coach_team7 = Leavenworth HS (KS)
| coach_years8 = 1946–1956
| coach_team8 = Bethany (KS)
| coach_sport9 = Basketball
| coach_years10 = 1928–1929
| coach_team10 = Chadron Normal
| coach_years11 = 1930–1935
| coach_team11 = South Dakota Mines
| coach_years12 = ?
| coach_team12 = Bethany (KS)
| admin_years1 = 1938–1966
| admin_team1 = Bethany (KS)
| overall_record = 70–104–4 (college football)
40–49 (college basketball, excluding Bethany (KS))
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record =
| championships = Football
1 KCAC (1946)
Basketball
1 KCAC regular season (1941)
| awards = Grantland Rice All-American team
Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
NAIA Hall of Fame
| coaching_records =
}}
Ray Dreyer Hahn (November 19, 1897 – November 8, 1989) was an American football and basketball player and coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the South Dakota School of Mines—now known as South Dakota School of Mines and Technology—from 1929 to 1934 and Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas from 1938 to 1942 and again from 1946 to 1956, compiling a career college football coaching record of 70–104–4.
Early life and playing career
Hahn was born on, November 19, 1897 in Clay Center, Kansas. He served in the United States Army during World War I.{{cite news |author= |title=Obituaries |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61948717/obituary-for-ray-d-hahn-aged-91/ |newspaper=The Manhattan Mercury |location=Manhattan, Kansas |date=November 9, 1989 |page=2 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Hahn attended Kansas State Agricultural College—now known as Kansas State University— in Manhattan, Kansas. There he participated in football, basketball, and track. He was the captain of the 1922 Kansas State Wildcats football team and was named to the Grantland Rice All-American team as a lineman.{{cite web|url=http://www.kshof.org/inductees/inductees-a-z/141-hahn-ray|publisher=Kansas Sports Hall of Fame|title=Hahn, Ray (Inducted 2005)|accessdate=March 7, 2013}} He also played in three games, all starts, for the Hammond Pros of the National Football League in 1926.{{cite web | url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HahnRa20.htm | title=Ray Hahn | work=pro-football-reference.com | accessdate=16 October 2024}}
Coaching career
=Early coaching career=
Hahn began his coaching career at Norton High School in Norton County, Kansas in 1923.{{cite news |author= |title=The Local News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61951520/the-times/ |newspaper=The Times |location=Clay Center, Kansas |date=May 24, 1923 |page=8 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} The next year he moved on to Downers Grove High School in Downers Grove, Illinois.{{cite news |author= |title=Ray Hahn to Illinois |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61952595/manhattan-republic/ |newspaper=Manhattan Republic |location=Manhattan, Kansas |date=July 17, 1924 |page=1 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} In 1928, he was appointed head basketball coach at Chadron Normal College—now known as Chadron State College—in Chadron, Nebraska and assistant coach in football and track under Arthur R. Stark.{{cite news |author= |title=All Schools Will Open On Monday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61950226/chadron-record/ |newspaper=Chadron Record |location=Chadron, Nebraska |date=September 7, 1928 |page=1 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
=South Dakota Mines=
Hahn was the head football coach at the South Dakota School of Mines—now known as South Dakota School of Mines and Technology—from 1929 to 1934, compiling a record of 15–27.{{cite web|url=http://www.gorockers.com/men/football/44967/|publisher=South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Hardrockers football|title=Past Seasons|accessdate=March 7, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120151151/http://www.gorockers.com/men/football/44967/|archivedate=January 20, 2013}}
=Bethany=
Hahn returned to coaching after a two-year absence when he was hired in 1938 as the athletic director and coach of all sports at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.{{cite news |author= |title=Ex-Mines Mentor Builds Winners At Kansas College |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61953306/rapid-city-journal/ |newspaper=Rapid City Journal |location=Rapid City, South Dakota |date=August 16, 1939 |page=7 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He served as the head football coach at Bethany for 19 seasons between 1938 and 1956, compiling a record of 55–77–4.{{Cite web
|last=DeLassus
|first=David
|title=Bethany College Records By Year (incomplete data)
|publisher=College Football Data Warehouse
|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/year_by_year_current.php?teamid=320
|accessdate=March 5, 2013}} He took a leave of absence from 1943 to 1946 during World War II to coach and teach at Leavenworth High School in Leavenworth, Kansas.{{cite news |author= |title=Name New Coach At Leavenworth |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61951319/the-atchison-daily-globe/ |newspaper=Atchison Daily Globe |location=Atchison, Kansas |agency=Associated Press |date=May 15, 1946 |page=7 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} Hahn stepped down as Bethany's head football coach in 1957 and was replaced by Hal Collins.{{cite news |author= |title=Hahn Resigns As Swede Grid Coach |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61953806/the-salina-journal/ |newspaper=The Salina Journal |location=Salina, Kansas |date=April 22, 1957 |page=14 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }} He remained Bethany's athletics director until 1966, when he was succeeded by Keith Rasmussen, the school's head football and track coach. Hahn continued as Bethany's head tennis and golf coach and as a professor of physical education.{{cite news |author= |title=Bethany Makes Change |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61953957/the-kansas-city-star/ |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, Missouri |agency=Associated Press |date=September 8, 1966 |page=14 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Legacy
The Bethany College gymnasium was named the Hahn Physical Education Building in his honor. Hahn was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics of Fame in 1966, an organization he helped to start as the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball, the predecessor to the NAIA.
Family and death
Hahn was married to Mildred M. Drebing on December 23, 1924, in Topeka, Kansas. He died on November 8, 1989, at Lindsborg Community Hospital.{{cite news |author= |title=Lindsborg pays tribute to Hahn |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61948677/the-salina-journal/ |newspaper=The Salina Journal |location=Salina, Kansas |date=November 12, 1989 |page=20 |access-date=October 27, 2020 |via=Newspapers.com {{Open access}} }}
Head coaching record
=College football=
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{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = South Dakota Mines Hardrockers
| conf = South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference
| startyear = 1929
| endyear = 1934
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1929
| name = South Dakota Mines
| overall = 3–4
| conference = 3–2
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1930
| name = South Dakota Mines
| overall = 3–5
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = 8th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1931
| name = South Dakota Mines
| overall = 2–5
| conference = 2–3
| confstanding = T–7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1932
| name = South Dakota Mines
| overall = 1–6
| conference = 1–3
| confstanding = T–7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1933
| name = South Dakota Mines
| overall = 4–3
| conference = 3–1
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1934
| name = South Dakota Mines
| overall = 2–4
| conference = 2–2
| confstanding = T–5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = South Dakota Mines
| overall = 15–27
| confrecord = 13–15
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Bethany Swedes
| conf = Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1938
| endyear = 1942
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1938
| name = Bethany
| overall = 4–4
| conference = 3–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1939
| name = Bethany
| overall = 3–5–1
| conference = 3–2–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1940
| name = Bethany
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1941
| name = Bethany
| overall = 1–7
| conference = 1–5
| confstanding = T–5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1942
| name = Bethany
| overall = 3–3–1
| conference = 3–2–1
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subhead
| name = Bethany Swedes
| conf = Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
| startyear = 1946
| endyear = 1956
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| year = 1946
| name = Bethany
| overall = 6–2
| conference = 5–1
| confstanding = 1st
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1947
| name = Bethany
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1948
| name = Bethany
| overall = 6–3
| conference = 5–1
| confstanding = 2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1949
| name = Bethany
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 4–2
| confstanding = T–2nd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1950
| name = Bethany
| overall = 3–5–1
| conference = 2–3–1
| confstanding = 4th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1951
| name = Bethany
| overall = 4–5
| conference = 2–4
| confstanding = 5th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1952
| name = Bethany
| overall = 5–4
| conference = 3–3
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1953
| name = Bethany
| overall = 4–4
| conference = 4–3
| confstanding = 3rd
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1954
| name = Bethany
| overall = 1–6–1
| conference = 1–5–1
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1955
| name = Bethany
| overall = 1–8
| conference = 1–6
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| year = 1956
| name = Bethany
| overall = 1–7
| conference = 1–6
| confstanding = 7th
| bowlname =
| bowloutcome =
| bcsbowl =
| ranking = no
| ranking2 = no
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record Subtotal
| name = Bethany
| overall = 55–77–4
| confrecord = 46–50–4
}}
{{CFB Yearly Record End
| overall = 70–104–4
| bowls = no
| poll = no
| polltype =
}}
References
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|48148089}}
{{South Dakota Mines Hardrockers football coach navbox}}
{{Bethany Swedes football coach navbox}}
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