Howard Houston Henry (June 19, 1882February 12, 1919) was an

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 ...

player. He played college football for the

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team and was selected as a consensus All-American at the halfback position in 1903. Before Princeton, Henry was prepped at

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graduating with the class of 1899. On June 23, 1904, he was married to Mae Drexel Fell, the daughter of Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer of Philadelphia. They had a daughter, Sarah Drexel Henry, born on March 28, 1905. During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, he served as a captain in the

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. While under the care of Dr. Norris Vaux, he died of heart failure in

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, on February 12, 1919, at age 36. In 1924, the Howard Henry Memorial Dormitory at Princeton was dedicated in memory of Henry's wartime service. A memorial tablet was also unveiled with the following inscription: "The Class of 1904 - Howard Henry Memorial Dormitory, The Gift of the Class of 1904 and of the Friends of Howard Houston Henry, President of the Class, Captain of the United States Army. Died in the Service of His Country, February 12, 1919."

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