Kenneth Alphonse Simendinger (October 23, 1899 - ???) was a professional football

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 in the National Football League

National Football League

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 for the Hartford Blues

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 in 1926. He also played for the Waterbury-Hartford Blues in 1924, prior to that team's entry into the NFL. He was also a head college basketball

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 coach at his alma mater, Holy Cross

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 from 1924 until 1925.

At Holy Cross, Simendinger played three years of college football

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 and baseball

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. He hit two home run

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s and a double

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 in his baseball debut against Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

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, earning him the nickname the “Babe Ruth

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 of the Eastern Intercollegiates.” Simendinger is the only Crusader coach to have served for just one season, as he then became football coach at Gonzaga High School

Gonzaga High School

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 in Washington D.C. He was inducted into the Crusader Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1958.