Clarence Mann Fincke was an All-American football player and a banker. He played football for Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 from 1894 to 1896, mostly at quarterback

Quarterback

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 and some at fullback

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, and was selected as the quarterback for the 1896 College Football All-America Team

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.

Playing career

Fincke attended The Hill School

The Hill School

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 at Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Pottstown, Pennsylvania

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, the site of the Hill School, before enrolling at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones

Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....

. At Yale, Fincke played on the football team from 1894 to 1896. Fincke was 5-feet, 11-inches tall and weighed 160 pounds. He was voted captain of the 1895 football team, and a Massachusetts newspaper that year called Fincke "the steadiest player" on Yale's team. His tackling in an 1895 game against the Carlisle Indian School

Carlisle Indians football

The Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in intercollegiate football competition. The program was active from 1893 until 1917, when it was discontinued. During the program's 25 years, the Indians compiled a 167–88–13 record and 0.647 winning percentage,...

 helped prevent the Carlisle team from scoring on Yale.

Fincke also played third base for the baseball team. One newspaper reported that he was "a good fielder and thrower" but "weak at the bat."

Fincke was popular among the Yale student body. He was voted the handsomest man in his Yale class and the most popular. Upon his graduation in 1897, Fincke was also voted as the member of his class who had done the most for Yale.

Later-life

After graduating from Yale, Fincke served as the football coach at The Hill School. He later went into the banking business and became the president and chairman of the board of Greenwich Savings Bank in New York. He died at Englewood, New Jersey

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in 1959 at age 84.