Clarence E. Swanson (March 15, 1898 – December 3, 1970) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player. He was elected to the

College Football Hall of Fame The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and interactive attraction devoted to college football. The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the Hall in 1951 to immortalize the players and coaches of college football that were vote ...

in 1973.

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1898 births 1970 deaths Nebraska Cornhuskers football players College Football Hall of Fame inductees American football ends People from Wakefield, Nebraska {{collegefootball-player-stub