Charles Douglas Clark (July 11, 1902 – May 2, 1964), nicknamed "Sensation", was an American

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in the 1920s. A native of

Americus, Georgia Americus is the county seat of Sumter County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,230. It is the principal city of the Americus Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Schley an ...

, Clark attended

Morehouse College , mottoeng = And there was light (literal translation of Latin itself translated from Hebrew: "And light was made") , type = Private historically black men's liberal arts college , academic_affiliation ...

. He made his

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debut in 1922 with the Pittsburgh Keystones. He went on to play for the Indianapolis ABCs the following season, and finished his career in 1924 with the

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and

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. Clark died in

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in 1964 at age 61.

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