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{{short description|American  football player}}
{{Infobox college football player
|name=Harry Beecher
|image= Harry beecher photo.jpg
|image_size=180px
|caption= Beecher c. 1888
|school=Yale Bulldogs
|currentposition=[[Quarterback]]
|pastschools=[[Yale Bulldogs football|Yale]] (1884–1887)
|class=Graduate
| birth_date      =  {{Birth date|1868|9|13}}
| birth_place     = [[Peekskill, New York]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{Death date|1948|9|26}}
| death_place     = [[Wilmette, Illinois]], U.S.
|highlights=
*National championship (1886, 1887)
}}

'''Henry Ward "Harry" Beecher''' ([[Peekskill, New York]], September 13, 1868 – [[Wilmette, Illinois]], 26 September 1948) was a [[college football]] player and sportswriter.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CnwAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=67|title=Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide|year=1905}}</ref> He was the subject of the first [[American Football Card|American football card]], printed in 1888. 

Henry was son of Henry Barton and Harriet Jones Benedict Beecher. His paternal grandfather was [[Henry Ward Beecher]] and one of his paternal great-aunts was [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]. He graduated from [[Yale University]] in 1888.<ref>[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beecher-624 Henry Ward Beechar biography]</ref>

==Yale==
Beecher was a prominent [[quarterback]] for the [[Yale Bulldogs football]] team of [[Yale University]], called by one writer the school's greatest ever at the position.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mp1JAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA56&lpg=RA3-PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=56|title=Physical Education}}</ref>

===1886===
He accounted for 33 touchdowns in [[1886 Yale Bulldogs football team|1886]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv21/CFHSNv21n4a.pdf|journal=College Football Historical Society|volume=21|number=4| date=August 2008 |author=Bob Barton|title=Yale's Beecher: A Forgotten Mr Touchdown}}</ref>

===1887===
He was captain in [[1887 Yale Bulldogs football team|1887]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2E-Yin4dqgC&pg=PA106#v=onepage&q&f=false|page=106|title=The Real All Americans|author=Sally Jenkins}}</ref> One source lists Beecher as the player of the year.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R08UAQAAIAAJ&q=%22c+m+decamp%22+princeton&dq=%22c+m+decamp%22+princeton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X2w-Va62CIfLsAXqs4C4AQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwBA|page=685|title=Winners, the blue ribbon encyclopedia of awards|author=Claire Walter}}</ref>

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