Ethan Barbier Brooks is a former American football offensive tackle in the NFL who played for five different teams in a nine-year career. He played defensive tackle for Division III Williams College, where he was a two-time all-conference player and NESCAC defensive player of the year as a senior. Brooks grew up in Simsbury, Connecticut. He attended Westminster a small prep school in Simsbury with a poor football record while he was there. He was not noticed by Division I-A schools. He had opportunities to play with a scholarship at Division I-AA schools. His father Alan had gone to Wesleyan and was good enough to be invited to the Baltimore Colts training camp. When Ethan graduated, Williams had a better football team than Wesleyan and the other school of the "Little Three", Amherst, good enough to be a Division 3 "power". His father encouraged Ethan to go there for both football and academics. Ethan Brooks had NFL aspirations even then and thought Division 3 ball would not be the best route to the NFL. He wanted to go to Bucknell which had a superior football program as a Division I-AA but was still a good academic school. 

April 27th, 1972 in Hartford (Age 52)