Ken Hobart

Kenneth Charles "Ken" Hobart (born January 27, 1961) is a former professional football player, a quarterback in the USFL and CFL, where he played from 1985–1990.

Collegiate career
Hobart played college football at the University of Idaho from 1980–1983, starting at quarterback for the Vandals for four seasons. The first two were in the veer option offense under Jerry Davitch, and the final two in a passing attack under new head coach Dennis Erickson. In Erickson's first season in 1982, Hobart led the Vandals to an 8–3 record in the regular season and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Division I-AA playoffs, falling on the road 30–38 to eventual champion Eastern Kentucky. In Hobart's senior season of 1983, the Vandals again went 8–3, but lost all three games in conference play and were not selected for the 12-team national playoffs. Throwing for over 10,000 yards in his collegiate career, he was a Division I-AA All-American in 1983.

Hailing from tiny Kamiah (KAMM-ee-eye) on the Clearwater River in north central Idaho, Hobart was a bespeckled 155 lb wishbone quarterback at Kamiah High School and led the Kubs to the A-3 (now 2A) state title in his senior season. After graduation in 1979, he enrolled at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston with the intent of playing college baseball as a pitcher. After a semester, Hobart transferred to UI in January 1980 and walked-on the football team to become the starting quarterback in his redshirt freshman season. Nicknamed the "Kamiah Kid" by longtime Vandal broadcaster Bob Curtis, Hobart also competed for the Idaho track team in the decathlon and still ranks as one of the top decathletes in the school's history, in a program which later produced Dan O'Brien. (Idaho dropped baseball as a varsity sport in May 1980.) Hobart graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in management.

Professional career
Hobart started his professional football career in 1984 with the Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL, as a second round pick in the 1984 USFL Draft. and signed a contract in January. He was traded to the Denver Gold, and was selected tenth in the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft by the New York Jets, but never played in the NFL.

As the USFL folded in 1985, Hobart moved north to Canada, where he played for six seasons in the CFL, four with Hamilton and two with Ottawa. In 1985 he rushed for a Hamilton team record for yards by a quarterback (928) and was winner of the Jeff Russel Memorial Trophy and runner up as CFL MVP. He was a member of the Hamilton's Grey Cup championship team in 1986.

Personal
Following his playing career, Hobart returned to north central Idaho and resides in Lewiston with his wife and three children, Zane, Klaree, and Laney.

After his first season in Canada in 1985, Hobart returned to his hometown to co-coach the Kamiah boys basketball team for a season.