Baltimore Messenger
Baltimore, MD
17 Mar 2005
Earle Harrison Hudson, who moved the chains at Baltimore Colts home games during the team's heyday, died from complications from cancer March 8 at Keswick Multi Care Center. He was 90.
A line crew member and relief clock operator for the National Football League, he was a fan favorite for his distinctive running style. Fans chanted, "Prancer!" when he ran out to measure downs.
Mr. Hudson, a longtime Roland Park resident and a transportation and safety engineer at Bethlehem Steel, was born in 1914 in Glen Wilton, Va. He was president of his high school class for four years and played varsity football and basketball. He also threw the discus and the shotput, rode and showed horses and was an Eagle scout.
He graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in management engineering in 1938.
He played left tackle on a team that went to the 1937 Cotton Bowl. He was recruited by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but instead went to work for Bethlehem Steel in the Quincy, Mass., shipyard.
In 1939 he transfered to Baltimore and worked on the shipbuilding side of Bethlehelm Steel at Sparrow's Point.
In 1947 he married his cousin's roommate at the University of Texas, Margaret Scott Hunt Hudson, and in 1954 they moved to Roland Park to raise their two daughters.
He worked for Bethlehem at Sparrow's Point until January 1979, when he retired.
He was an active volunteer in the Roland Park Civic League, for the United Way and in the Roland Park Country School parents' association.
Mr. Hudson was a communicant of St. David's Church in Roland Park, where funeral services were held March 15. His wife died last fall.
He is survived by daughters Katharine Hunt Hudson of Roland Park and Margaret Hudson Rice of Guilford; grandchildren Drummond Shipley Rice and Elizabeth Burgess Rice; siblings James Banks Hudson Jr. of Boulder, Colo., and Louise Hudson Whitmore Dapp of Elizabethtown, Pa.; two nieces, and two nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Baltimore Chapter, National Football Foundation, P.O. Box 20180, Baltimore, MD 21284 or to the Maryland SPCA 3300 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211.
Baltimore, MD
17 Mar 2005
Earle Harrison Hudson, who moved the chains at Baltimore Colts home games during the team's heyday, died from complications from cancer March 8 at Keswick Multi Care Center. He was 90.
A line crew member and relief clock operator for the National Football League, he was a fan favorite for his distinctive running style. Fans chanted, "Prancer!" when he ran out to measure downs.
Mr. Hudson, a longtime Roland Park resident and a transportation and safety engineer at Bethlehem Steel, was born in 1914 in Glen Wilton, Va. He was president of his high school class for four years and played varsity football and basketball. He also threw the discus and the shotput, rode and showed horses and was an Eagle scout.
He graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in management engineering in 1938.
He played left tackle on a team that went to the 1937 Cotton Bowl. He was recruited by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but instead went to work for Bethlehem Steel in the Quincy, Mass., shipyard.
In 1939 he transfered to Baltimore and worked on the shipbuilding side of Bethlehelm Steel at Sparrow's Point.
In 1947 he married his cousin's roommate at the University of Texas, Margaret Scott Hunt Hudson, and in 1954 they moved to Roland Park to raise their two daughters.
He worked for Bethlehem at Sparrow's Point until January 1979, when he retired.
He was an active volunteer in the Roland Park Civic League, for the United Way and in the Roland Park Country School parents' association.
Mr. Hudson was a communicant of St. David's Church in Roland Park, where funeral services were held March 15. His wife died last fall.
He is survived by daughters Katharine Hunt Hudson of Roland Park and Margaret Hudson Rice of Guilford; grandchildren Drummond Shipley Rice and Elizabeth Burgess Rice; siblings James Banks Hudson Jr. of Boulder, Colo., and Louise Hudson Whitmore Dapp of Elizabethtown, Pa.; two nieces, and two nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Baltimore Chapter, National Football Foundation, P.O. Box 20180, Baltimore, MD 21284 or to the Maryland SPCA 3300 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211.
Baltimore Messenger
Baltimore, MD
17 Mar 2005
Earle Harrison Hudson, who moved the chains at Baltimore Colts home games during the team's heyday, died from complications from cancer March 8 at Keswick Multi Care Center. He was 90.
A line crew member and relief clock operator for the National Football League, he was a fan favorite for his distinctive running style. Fans chanted, "Prancer!" when he ran out to measure downs.
Mr. Hudson, a longtime Roland Park resident and a transportation and safety engineer at Bethlehem Steel, was born in 1914 in Glen Wilton, Va. He was president of his high school class for four years and played varsity football and basketball. He also threw the discus and the shotput, rode and showed horses and was an Eagle scout.
He graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in management engineering in 1938.
He played left tackle on a team that went to the 1937 Cotton Bowl. He was recruited by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but instead went to work for Bethlehem Steel in the Quincy, Mass., shipyard.
In 1939 he transfered to Baltimore and worked on the shipbuilding side of Bethlehelm Steel at Sparrow's Point.
In 1947 he married his cousin's roommate at the University of Texas, Margaret Scott Hunt Hudson, and in 1954 they moved to Roland Park to raise their two daughters.
He worked for Bethlehem at Sparrow's Point until January 1979, when he retired.
He was an active volunteer in the Roland Park Civic League, for the United Way and in the Roland Park Country School parents' association.
Mr. Hudson was a communicant of St. David's Church in Roland Park, where funeral services were held March 15. His wife died last fall.
He is survived by daughters Katharine Hunt Hudson of Roland Park and Margaret Hudson Rice of Guilford; grandchildren Drummond Shipley Rice and Elizabeth Burgess Rice; siblings James Banks Hudson Jr. of Boulder, Colo., and Louise Hudson Whitmore Dapp of Elizabethtown, Pa.; two nieces, and two nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Baltimore Chapter, National Football Foundation, P.O. Box 20180, Baltimore, MD 21284 or to the Maryland SPCA 3300 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211.
Baltimore, MD
17 Mar 2005
Earle Harrison Hudson, who moved the chains at Baltimore Colts home games during the team's heyday, died from complications from cancer March 8 at Keswick Multi Care Center. He was 90.
A line crew member and relief clock operator for the National Football League, he was a fan favorite for his distinctive running style. Fans chanted, "Prancer!" when he ran out to measure downs.
Mr. Hudson, a longtime Roland Park resident and a transportation and safety engineer at Bethlehem Steel, was born in 1914 in Glen Wilton, Va. He was president of his high school class for four years and played varsity football and basketball. He also threw the discus and the shotput, rode and showed horses and was an Eagle scout.
He graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh with a bachelor's degree in management engineering in 1938.
He played left tackle on a team that went to the 1937 Cotton Bowl. He was recruited by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but instead went to work for Bethlehem Steel in the Quincy, Mass., shipyard.
In 1939 he transfered to Baltimore and worked on the shipbuilding side of Bethlehelm Steel at Sparrow's Point.
In 1947 he married his cousin's roommate at the University of Texas, Margaret Scott Hunt Hudson, and in 1954 they moved to Roland Park to raise their two daughters.
He worked for Bethlehem at Sparrow's Point until January 1979, when he retired.
He was an active volunteer in the Roland Park Civic League, for the United Way and in the Roland Park Country School parents' association.
Mr. Hudson was a communicant of St. David's Church in Roland Park, where funeral services were held March 15. His wife died last fall.
He is survived by daughters Katharine Hunt Hudson of Roland Park and Margaret Hudson Rice of Guilford; grandchildren Drummond Shipley Rice and Elizabeth Burgess Rice; siblings James Banks Hudson Jr. of Boulder, Colo., and Louise Hudson Whitmore Dapp of Elizabethtown, Pa.; two nieces, and two nephews.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Baltimore Chapter, National Football Foundation, P.O. Box 20180, Baltimore, MD 21284 or to the Maryland SPCA 3300 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21211.
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