[1][2] Born in Ishpeming, Michigan of Norwegian immigrant parents, he learned ski jumping along with all of his five brothers.

[4] Hall won the farthest distance ski jump award at the annual U.S. national championship tournament in 1914 (along with his brother Carl),[5] 1915,[6] and 1924.

[11][12][13] In 1921, Henry Hall again achieved the world record with a jump of 229 feet on the Nels Nelsen Hill in Canada.

[20] The "Henry Hall Cup" is an award for a promising young ski jumper at the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club.

In 2001 he was inducted into Norway's Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum, and into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2006.