Edwin Whitfield "Goat" Hale (January 29, 1896 – March 25, 1983) was an American football player for the Mississippi College Collegians who was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

He battered through the line, scoring a touchdown, and ran past the end zone until his head hit a wooden building, loosening several planks.

[1] "Goat" played quarterback at Mississippi College from 1915 to 1916 and again from 1920 to 1921, after serving in World War I.

[1] Hale was also inducted into the Millsaps College Sports Hall of Fame in 1970.

[3] He is the name sake of the Hale in Robinson-Hale Stadium, wherein Mississippi College plays it home games.