| abstract | - Hare was born at his grandfather's house in Noblesville, Indiana on November 7, 1864. His parents were Marcus L. Hare and Julia A. (Haines) Hare, who resided in Indianapolis. Hare was raised in Indianapolis and attended the city's public schools including Shortridge High School. Hare entered Yale University in the fall of 1883. At Yale, he participated in a number of athletic pursuits. He played on his class baseball team in the fall of his first two years in New Haven, rowed with his class crews as a sophomore and junior, and was a member of his class lacrosse team in his junior year. As a junior and senior, in the falls of 1885 and 1886, Hare was the manager of the varsity football team. As senior, he was also president of the University Football Association. In addition to athletics, Hare was a member of the Second Glee Club, the Chapel Choir, the Yale University Club, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and Skull and Bones, a secret society founded at Yale in 1832. He graduated from Yale with the class of 1887. In 1886, Hare and three others—Merrill Moores, Pirtle Harrod, and William Bradshaw—formed the Indianapolis Athletic Association (IAA) to introduce football in Indiana. The IAA sponsored intercollegiate games involving teams from Butler University, Hanover College, Wabash College, and Franklin College in 1886 and 1887, and supplied players with train tickets for games played in Indianapolis.
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