Hall of Fame
Kevney O'Connor graduated from high school in Scarsdale, NY, in 1943 and enlisted in the US Army on his 19th birthday. He served with the 6th Ranger Battalion in the Pacific and enrolled at Oberlin after the war. In his senior year he was named to the second team of the United Press All-Ohio football team at quarterback as five of his Yeomen teammates received honorable mention laurels. Following graduation, O'Connor served one year in Korea with the 187th Regimental combat team, an airborne unit that saw action in the Punch Bowl area. He still holds four Oberlin football records: highest pass completion percentage, single game (88.8% vs Kenyon 1949); most touchdown passes, career (36); highest yards per punt average, game (46.6) and career (37.5). O'Connor was a founder of the John W. Heisman Club at Oberlin and completed service as its president in 1988. O'Connor currently heads a management consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
