{"id":323417,"date":"2026-11-08T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323417\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T01:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:50:14","slug":"former-steelers-penn-state-linebacker-jack-ham-hospitalized-after-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/323417\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Steelers, Penn State linebacker Jack Ham hospitalized after medical emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pittsburgh Steelers and Penn State linebacker Jack Ham was hospitalized Saturday following a medical emergency, according to a statement from Penn State&#8217;s athletics department.<\/p>\n<p>Team officials said Ham was transported to the University of Washington Medical Center, where he is being treated.<\/p>\n<p>Ham, 77, currently serves as an analyst on Penn State football radio broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Ham played at Penn State from 1968 through 1970, and earned Consensus All-American honors in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted Ham in the second round of the 1971 NFL draft. Ham was a six-time first-team All-Pro and four-time Super Bowl champion on the Steelers&#8217; &#8220;Steel Curtain&#8221; defense during the 1970s. He spent his entire 12-year NFL career in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>He finished his NFL career with 32 interceptions and 25\u00bd sacks, though the NFL did not officially count sacks as a statistic until 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Ham was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Steelers Hall of Honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers and Penn State linebacker Jack Ham was hospitalized Saturday following a medical emergency, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3743,73,75,74,1833],"class_list":["post-323417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-penn-state","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}