Clint Frank

Clint Frank
Clint Frank
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Date of birth September 13, 1915
Place of birth St. Louis, Missouri
Date of death July 7, 1992(1992-07-07) (aged 76)
Position(s) Halfback
College Yale
NFL Draft 1938 / Round 12 / Pick 106
Awards 1937 Heisman Trophy
1937 Maxwell Award
1955 College Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame

Clinton E. Frank (September 13, 1915 – July 7, 1992) was an American football player. He played halfback for Yale University.

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College years

Frank attended Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones,[1] and graduated with a degree in economics. In football, he was a two-time team captain and All-American, and as a senior in 1937, he won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award. The runner-up in the 1937 Heisman contest was Byron White, a running back from the University of Colorado, who later became a U.S. Supreme Court justice.[2]

Career

Frank attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Air Corps, serving as an aide to General Jimmy Doolittle during World War II. Following the war he resumed his career in advertising. In 1954 Frank established Clinton E. Frank Inc., a Chicago based advertising agency which was sold to Campbell-Ewald Co. of Detroit in 1976.[3]

Frank died in Evanston, Illinois.

References

  1. ^ Wallace, William N. (2005). Yale's Ironmen: A Story of Football & Lives in the Decade of the Depression & Beyond. pp. 157. http://books.google.com/books?id=jY7EIpTZAPcC. 
  2. ^ http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/10/18/2550328_put-your-knowledge-of-athletes.html
  3. ^ Clinton Frank Obituary in the New York Times

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