Clint Wyckoff
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Cornell Big Red | |
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Position | Quarterback |
Class | Graduate |
Career history | |
College |
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Personal information | |
Born: |
September 4, 1874 Elmira, New York |
Died: |
August 16, 1947 Buffalo, New York |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Weight | 141 lb (64 kg) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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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 is survived by his great granddaughter Kathleen Butterworth Wilson and his great great grandson Clint Randolph Wilson and his great great great grandson Conor Randolph Wilson as well as his great great great granddaughter Piper Elizabeth Wilson. 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.