Leonard Finlan "Pete" Bahan (February 18, 1898 – May 1, 1977) 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 with ...

player. Bahan played

quarterback The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...

for Somerset High School in

Somerset, Kentucky Somerset is a home rule-class city in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States. The city population was 11,924 according to the 2020 census. It is the seat of Pulaski County. History Somerset was first settled in 1798 by Thomas Hansford and rec ...

, and later was the team captain for both the football team and the basketball team at Notre Dame. He was the starting

and team captain for the undefeated football team in 1919, which later was selected as national co-champions by the National Championship Foundation. In 1920, he enrolled at Detroit University and started for their football team at right halfback. Bahan played for one season in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

in 1923, first with the

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and then with the

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* 1898 births 1977 deaths American football halfbacks American football quarterbacks Buffalo All-Americans players Cleveland Indians (NFL 1923) players Detroit Titans football players Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball players People from McKean County, Pennsylvania People from Somerset, Kentucky Players of American football from Kentucky American men's basketball players {{quarterback-stub