Best college football players of all time from every state

Colorado – Earl “The Flying Dutchman” Clark

A strong candidate for being my favorite athlete to write about on this list, The Flying Dutchman Earl Clark, born in Fowler, Colorado, was a sensational athlete in the late 1920s and was from a smaller school to boot. Clark attended Colorado college, staying in his home state, and was a four-sport athlete competing in football, basketball, baseball, and track.

His football career in college was an illustrious one, playing the full four years and graduating. In his highlight 1928 season, Clark averaged 10 yards every time he carried the ball—an almost impossible stats. He rushed, in total, for 1,349 yards in that season on 135 carries, and scored over half of the teams 203 points.

At the end of that same legendary season, Clark was selected by the Associated Press as the first-team quarterback on the 1928 College Football All-America Team. He was the first All-American from any of the state of Colorado’s colleges and universities, and would later coach two sports at his alma mater.

Clark would translate his football skills into the next level, mostly in rushing, as he would go on to become an NFL champion in 1935 while earning All-Pro honors a whopping six times, and being an inaugural member of both the Collegiate and Professional Football Halls of Fame.