Ernest Alexander "Tex" Hamer (October 4, 1901 – May 9, 1981) was a professional

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player for the

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from

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

until

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. Hamer won the 1926 NFL championship with the Yellow Jackets.

College Football highlights

He played

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. In 1922 he was named captain of the Quakers football team. On October 15, 1922, Hamer threw two

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passes to Carl Ertresvaag resulting in a 12-0 Quakers win over the

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Pro Football

Hamer played for the

from 1924-1926 and finished with 19 rushing TDs, including 12 in 1924. In 1924 against the Providence Steamroller, Hamer threw an 18-yard pass to Les Haws for a touchdown for a 21-10 Yellow Jackets win. In a rematch of the two teams Hamer scored off of a short run in the third quarter, then ran for a 35-yard touchdown run in the final period to clinch a 16-3 win. On

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1926, Hamer scored a touchdown on the Yellow Jackets’ first possession against the

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for a 20-14 Frankford win In 1926, Hamer kicked an

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to give the Jackets a 7-6 win over the Detroit Panthers.

Boxing

He was also a professional

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winning 4 matches (3 by

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) while losing 3 matches (all by knockout).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamer, Tex 1901 births Players of American football from Texas Frankford Yellow Jackets players Penn Quakers football players 1981 deaths People from Junction, Texas Boxers from Texas Burials in Texas