Quick Facts
Biography
Ray Dreyer Hahn (November 19, 1897 – November 8, 1989) was an American football and basketball player and coach.
Playing career
Hahn attended Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan, Kansas. While at Kansas State, he participated in football, basketball, and track. He was the captain of the 1922 Aggies football team and was named to the Grantland Rice All-American team as a lineman.
Coaching career
South Dakota Mines
Hahn was the head football coach for the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Hardrockers football team from 1929 until 1934. his teams completed an overall record of 15 wins and 27 losses.
Bethany
Hahn was the head coach for the Bethany Terrible Swedes located in Lindsborg, Kansas. He held that position for 19 seasons, from 1938 until 1956. His coaching record at Bethany was 55 wins, 77 losses and 4 ties. As of the conclusion of the 2012 season, this ranks him #2 at Bethany in total wins and #9 at the school in winning percentage (.419).
Other coaching duties
Hahn began his coaching career at Norton High School in 1923. He also coached in Downers Grove, Illinois, Nebraska Teachers College of Chadron (now called Chadron State College), and South Dakota School of Mines. Hahn went to Bethany College in 1938 as a basketball, football and tennis coach. He did take a leave of absence from 1943 through 1945 during World War II to teach at Leavenworth.
Legacy
The Bethany College gymnasium was named the Hahn Physical Education Building in his honor. Hahn was inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics of Fame in 1966, an organization he helped to start as the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball, the predecessor to the NAIA.