Earl 'Dutch' Clark ranks as one of the most brilliant all-around athletes to ever play for NFL football and was voted into the hall of Fame in 1963. The 6-foot, 185 pound was virtually blind in one eye, but won All-Pro honors 6 times in his seven-year NFL football professional career.
'Dutch' Clark began his NFL football career with the Portsmouth Spartans and stayed with the team when it moved to Detroit in 1934 and became the Detroit Lions. He was the main strategic planner in the Lions’ first NFL football championship in 1935. ‘Dutch’ Clark scored 369 points on 42 touchdowns, 72 extra points, 15 field goals and was the last pro football player to regularly use the dropkick for field goals and extra points.
For his final two years (1937-38) with the Lions he played and coached and then became head of the Cleveland Rams (1939-42).This quick-thinking signal caller is rated by historians as a quarterback, even though, as was common in the era, he would line up at a single-well behind the offensive center.
