Bill Morton (American football)

William Hanson Morton, known as Bill Morton, lived from 17 September 1909 to 11 April 1987 and was an American football player and later a business executive. He grew up in New Rochelle, New York, where he played football, baseball and ice hockey, and he went on to Dartmouth College, playing quarterback for the football team from 1929 to 1931 under the nickname Air Mail Morton. He also played on the Dartmouth men's ice hockey team and earned All-America honors in both sports. After graduating in 1932 he founded the investment firm W. H. Morton and Company, which American Express later acquired, and he retired from American Express as president and vice-chairman in 1974. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1972.