Vanderbilt Commodores | |
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Position | Quarterback |
Career history | |
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High school | Bowen School |
Personal information | |
Date of birth | March 13, 1893 |
Place of birth | Nashville, Tennessee |
Date of death | December 19, 1924 | (aged 31)
Place of death | Cleveland, Ohio |
Benjamin Hord Boensch (March 13, 1893 – December 19, 1924) was a college football player. He was the quarterback for the Vanderbilt Commodores football team in 1913. Some writers selected him All-Southern that season. Boensch kicked the extra point to beat Tennessee 7 to 6. He named for his grandfather Ben M. Hord, a major for the Confederacy in North Carolina.