Clint Frank
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| Yale Bulldogs No. 14 | |
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| Position | Halfback |
| Class | Graduate |
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| High school | Evanston (IL) |
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| Date of birth | September 13, 1915 |
| Place of birth | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Date of death | July 7, 1992 (aged 76) |
| Place of death | Evanston, Illinois |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
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| College Football Hall of Fame (1955) | |
Clinton E. Frank (September 13, 1915 – July 7, 1992) was an American football player and advertising executive. He played halfback for Yale University. In 1954, he founded the Clinton E. Frank, Inc. advertising agency.
Frank attended Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois, where he obtained notoriety as a superb football player. He then attended Lawrenceville School as a post-graduate student.
Frank attended Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and graduated with a degree in economics in 1938. 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. He beat out Byron "Whizzer" White for the Heisman Trophy; White later became a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Frank also received the Maxwell Award after his senior year in which he scored three touchdowns in his team`s 19-0 victory over Brown.
Frank was married to Margaret Rathje Frank, with whom he had three sons and six daughters.
Clint 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.
Frank joined the Chicago advertising firm of Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc., where he was employed for ten years before being promoted to advertising manager of E.J. Brach and Sons, the famed candy producer. Frank became a full partner in the advertising agency of Price, Robinson and Frank. He was able to transition this agency into his own with him as owner and president. In 1954 Frank established Clinton E. Frank Inc., a Chicago based advertising agency which was sold to Campbell-Ewald Co. of Detroit in 1976.
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