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Edgar M. Clinton (May 21, 1877 – December 3, 1954) 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 wi ...
coach. He served as the head football coach at Knox College in
Galesburg, Illinois Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The city is northwest of Peoria. At the 2010 census, its population was 32,195. It is the county seat of Knox County and the principal city of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical ...
in 1900 and at
Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the ...
in 1901, compiling a career college football coaching record of 8–10–2. A native of
Polo, Illinois Polo is a city in Ogle County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,355 at the 2010 census, down from 2,477 in 2000. History The community was named after Marco Polo. Polo was incorporated in 1856. Geography Polo is located at (41.986 ...
, Clinton played football at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...
in 1896 and at Stanford University in 1898.


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* 1877 births 1954 deaths 19th-century players of American football American football halfbacks Iowa State Cyclones football coaches Knox Prairie Fire football coaches Stanford Cardinal football players People from Polo, Illinois Sportspeople from the Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois Players of American football from Illinois {{1900s-collegefootball-coach-stub