Howard Le Chevalier Roome ( – April 1931) was an American football player.
He played halfback for Yale University championship teams of 1905 and 1906 and was selected by Walter Camp as a first-team All-American in 1905.
[1] Roome graduated from Yale in 1907 and married amateur golfer Florence Newman Ayres in April 1909.
[2] In May 1920, Roome won a $4,100 bet by climbing the 47 flights of stairs from the sub-cellar to the cupola of the Equitable Building in New York in 8 minutes, 52 seconds.
[3] He later went into the real estate business and lived in Westbury, New York.