Bernard Trafford

Bernard Walton Trafford (July 2, 1871 – January 3, 1942) was an American banker and college football and baseball player.

[1] He attended high school in Fall River, Massachusetts and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1889.

[3][4][5][6] He kicked five field goals in a game against Cornell in 1890, a season in which Harvard was national champion.

Trafford was captain of the first team to employ the flying wedge blocking scheme.

[11] After college, he was employed at the Bell Telephone System, then as a banker in Boston.

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