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Frank Gifford
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Running back, USC, 1949–⁠51

Frank Gifford

Lettered 1949–⁠51 (school media guide)

Born
Aug 16, 1930, in Santa Monica, California
Died
Aug 9, 2015, in New Haven, Connecticut

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Frank Gifford played running back at USC (1949–⁠51). The New York Giants took Gifford in the first round, No. 11 overall in the 1952 NFL Draft. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975.

Best season
1951
First-team All-Pacific Coast
Drafted
No. 11
Overall, 1952 NFL Draft (New York Giants)

Honors

All-America: AFCA 1951; UP third team 1951; Central Press third team 1951

The teams in those years

Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.

In the NFL

Pro Bowls: 7 (1953, 1955–⁠59, 1963) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 3 (1955, 1957, 1959) · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 1958

All-Pro teams: AP first team 1955, 1957, 1959; AP second team 1958; Sporting News first team 1955; NEA first team 1955, 1959; UPI first team 1959; New York Daily News second team 1953.

Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

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