Allan E. Doucette (c. 1872 – January 8, 1901) was an All-American

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player. He played at the

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position for

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and was selected for the 1897 College Football All-America Team. Doucette graduated from Harvard as an undergraduate in 1895. He spent the next three years at Harvard Law School, graduating in 1898. He then went into the private practice of law. In 1900, Doucette was stricken with

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. After an illness of six months, he died at his home in

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, in January 1901.

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