Pudge Heffelfinger
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title:
Pudge Heffelfinger
text:
William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger, also spelled Hafelfinger, was an American football player and coach. He is considered the first athlete to play American football professionally, having been paid to play in 1892 for the Allegheny Athletic Association. Heffelfinger played college football from 1888 to 1891 at Yale University, where he was a three-time consensus All-American as a guard. He served as the head football coach at the University of California in 1893, Lehigh University in 1894, and
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description:
American football player and coach (1867–1954)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudge_Heffelfinger
date created:
2006-04-10T08:41:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:05:40Z
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