| Ross O'Hanley | |
| Number: | 25 |
| Position: | Defensive back |
| Birth Date: | February 2, 1939 |
| Birth Place: | Everett, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Needham, Massachusetts |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| Weight Lbs: | 183 |
| High School: | Christopher Columbus (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| College: | Boston College |
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| Pfr: | O/OHanRo20 |
Ross O'Hanley (February 2, 1939April 7, 1972) was an American football safety with the Boston Patriots of the American Football League from 1960 to 1965. He was an All-League AFL player in 1960.
O'Hanley was selected by the Miami Dolphins in the 1966 AFL expansion draft but never played a game for them. He suffered a severe thigh bruise during the preseason and missed the 1966 season, and was cut and retired before the 1967 season.[1]
After his football playing days, O'Hanley first turned to coaching. O'Hanley coached the Lowell/Quincy Giants of the Atlantic Coast Football League (ACFL) from 1968 to 1969.[2]
After coaching, he worked as a high school math teacher and as aide in the Massachusetts attorney general's office, before being struck by a brain tumor in 1971.[1]