Harold R. "Champ" Henson III (born June 1, 1953 ) is a former

college A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offerin ...

and

professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and ski ...

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

fullback. Henson attended The

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

where he led the nation in scoring as a sophomore in 1972. In the second game of the 1973 season, however, Henson tore the cartilage his knee and was out for the season.

Linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, ...

Bruce Elia was converted to starting fullback. In his senior season Henson was hampered by the lingering effects of his knee injury and challenged by sophomore Pete Johnson. Henson was selected in the fourth round of the 1975

NFL Draft The National Football League Draft, also called the NFL Draft or (officially) the Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment. Each team is given a position in the drafting o ...

by the

Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansi ...

, who then traded him to the Cincinnati Bengals. Statistics Henson's statistics are as follows:

Political career

In March 2012, Harold was selected as the Republican nominee for

Pickaway County Pickaway County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 58,539. Its county seat is Circleville, Ohio, Circleville. Its name derives from the Pekowi band o ...

Commissioner by a 67-33 margin. He was unopposed in the November election, where he received over 16,000 votes. He was sworn in and will serve until January 2015. In 2016, Henson was once again nominated as the Republican nominee for Commissioner and defeated his two general election opponents by receiving more than 60 percent of the vote.http://electionsonthe.net/oh/pickaway/elecres.htm Election Results

References

1953 births Living people American football running backs Cincinnati Bengals players Ohio State Buckeyes football players County commissioners in Ohio Players of American football from Columbus, Ohio People from Ashville, Ohio {{runningback-1950s-stub

Political career

See also

References