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Clint Wyckoff

Clint Wyckoff
Cornell Big Red
Position Quarterback
Class Graduate
Career history
College
Personal information
Date of birth September 4, 1874
Place of birth Elmira, New York
Date of death August 16, 1947
Place of death Buffalo, New York
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Weight 141 lb (64 kg)
Career highlights and awards
College Football Hall of Fame (1970)

Clinton Randolph "Clint" Wyckoff (September 4, 1874 – August 16, 1947) was an American college football player, and the first consensus All-American not from Yale, Harvard, Princeton or Penn. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1970.

Wyckoff was born in Elmira, New York and attended Elmira Free Academy. He then attended Cornell University, just to Elmira's north, where he was graduated in 1896. At Cornell he was captain of the football team immediately succeeding the famed "Pop" Warner. He was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Society at Cornell.

He became a lawyer and corporate director from 1898 to 1910. In 1911, he became owner of the Atlas Steel Casting Company of Buffalo, New York.


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