Stu Clancy

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Stu Clancy
Positions:
QB , HB / FB 		Jersey number (s):
4
born June 6, 1906 in Branford , Connecticut
died on September 24, 1965 , ibid
Career information
Active : 1930 - 1935
College : College of the Holy Cross
Teams
Career statistics
Games     50
Touchdowns     5
Runs     128
Stats at pro-football-reference.com
Career highlights and awards

Stuart Joseph "Stu" Clancy (born June 6, 1906 in Branford , Connecticut , † September 24, 1965 , ibid) was an American American football player in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the New York Giants , among others .

Player career

Stu Clancy was born the son of a funeral director . He attended high school in his hometown , where he played basketball and baseball in addition to American football . At a preparatory school for his college studies , the end-playing Clancy was retrained to halfback . Clancy received an offer from Georgetown University , but he decided to study at the College of the Holy Cross because his high school coach had switched to the local football team . Stu Clancy also played basketball in college and was the captain of both basketball and football teams .

After graduating, Clancy turned down an offer from the St. Louis Cardinals , a Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and instead joined the Newark Tornadoes , who had to leave the NFL after the 1930 season. Stu Clancy moved to the Staten Island Stapletons . The team had only a small budget and suffered from a lack of money. In 1932, Clancy moved to the New York Giants trained by Steve Owen during the current season . The team around the top players Ray Flaherty and Ken Strong moved into the NFL final in 1933 , but had to admit defeat to the Chicago Bears with 21:23. In 1934 Ed Danowski joined the team from New York City and the Giants were able to beat the Bears with 30:13 in the NFL final. The following year, Clancy moved into his third final. The Giants were subject to the Detroit Lions with 26: 7. After that season, Clancy retired.

According to the NFL

Until his death, he ran the funeral home founded by his father. Stu Clancy was posthumously inducted into the Branford Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual statistics of the Giants 1933
  2. ↑ Annual statistics of the Giants 1934
  3. ↑ Annual statistics of the Giants 1935
  4. ^ Stu Clancy Funeral Home
personal data
SURNAME Clancy, Stu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clancy, Stuart Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Branford , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1965
Place of death Branford, Connecticut