Ed Hess

Edwin Albion Hess, Sr. (c. 1905 – 1963) was an American football player. He played at the guard position for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team from 1924 to 1926 and was a consensus first-team All-American in 1925. Hess is the great, great uncle of guitarist Tom Hess.

Hess was the son of William Buchanan Hess and Florence Camille Beale and was raised in Chardon, Ohio. He enrolled at Ohio State University in 1923 and joined the football team as a sophomore in 1924. He reportedly "did not flash until the closing games of the 1924 season." He received first-team honors in 1925 from the United Press, Collier's Weekly (as selected by Grantland Rice), and Athlete and Sportsman magazine, and second-team honors from the Associated Press, the All-America Board, and Walter Eckersall, football critic of the Chicago Tribune. Hess also won the Walter Camp Memorial Trophy in 1925. and second-team honors from the Associated Press.

Hess was inducted in 1985 into the school's Men's Varsity "O" Hall of Fame.