High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Francis Hearden (September 8, 1904 – December 27, 1964) was an American football player and coach in the United States. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame in the National Football League as a halfback for the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears from 1927 to 1929. Hearden served as the head football coach at St. Norbert College from 1946 to 1952, compiling a record of 40–14. He died of a heart attack in Green Bay, Wisconsin on December 27, 1964.