Bernard Trafford
Born
Bernard Walton Trafford

(1871-07-02)July 2, 1871
Dartmouth, Massachusetts, US
DiedJanuary 3, 1942(1942-01-03) (aged 70)
Milton, Massachusetts
OccupationBanker
College football career
Harvard Crimson
PositionFullback
Class1893
Personal information
Born:(1871-07-02)July 2, 1871
Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Career history
College
High schoolFall River, Exeter (1888)
Career highlights and awards
  • National championship (1890)
  • NCAA points leader (1891)

Bernard Walton Trafford (July 2, 1871 – January 3, 1942) was an American banker and college football and baseball player.

Personal life

Trafford was born July 2, 1871, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts to William Bradford and Rachel Mott Davis Trafford.[1] He attended high school in Fall River, Massachusetts and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1889.[1] He graduated Harvard in 1893.[1]

He married Leonora Brooks Borden of Fall River on June 5, 1901.[1] She died in 1936. Upon Trafford's death in 1942, he was survived by four daughters, a son, and eight grandchildren.[1]

Football career

Trafford was a prominent fullback for the Harvard Crimson football team from 1889 to 1892,[2] captain of the 1891 and 1892 teams.[3][4][5][6] He kicked five field goals in a game against Cornell in 1890, a season in which Harvard was national champion.[7] Trafford scored 64 points in a game against Wesleyan in 1891,[8][9] and led the nation in scoring that year with 270 points.[8] His teammate Everett Lake led the nation in touchdowns the same season. Trafford was captain of the first team to employ the flying wedge blocking scheme.[10] Trafford helped coach the 1893 team.[11] After college, he was employed at the Bell Telephone System, then as a banker in Boston.[12]

Banking career

Logo of the First National Bank of Boston

Trafford served as vice president of the First National Bank of Boston from 1912 to 1923, then became president in March 1928 upon the death of Clifton H. Dwinnell.[1] He served as vice chairman of the board from 1929 to 1935, and chairman from 1935 until his retirement.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "B. Trafford Dead; Boston Banker, 71". The New York Times. 3 January 1942. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Foot Ball Captain". thecrimson.com.
  3. ↑ "B. W. Trafford For Captain". Boston Post. January 16, 1891. p. 2. Retrieved November 1, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ↑ "The Harvard Monthly". google.com. 1891.
  5. ↑ "Media Center: Harvard Crimson Football - All-Time Football Captains". Harvard. Archived from the original on 2018-06-15. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  6. ↑ "Harvard Football Men". Boston Evening Transcript. September 17, 1892.
  7. ↑ http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A22984/datastream/PDF/view
  8. 1 2 http://www.secsportsfan.com/support-files/pre-1937cfbleaders.pdf
  9. ↑ "Depth a major problem for declining Eastern powers". Times Daily. September 28, 1990.
  10. ↑ Dodge, Mary Mapes (1915). "St. Nicholas". google.com.
  11. ↑ "B. W. Trafford Coach". thecrimson.com.
  12. ↑ "Harvard College Class of 1893 Secretary's Fifth Report". google.com. 1895.
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