Ace Parker

Clarence McKay Parker, known as Ace Parker, was an American athlete and coach who played both professional baseball and professional football. Born on 17 May 1912, he starred at Duke University, where he competed in football, basketball and baseball, was a consensus first-team All-American in 1936 and finished sixth in the Heisman Trophy voting. He played Major League Baseball as an infielder for the Philadelphia Athletics, hitting a home run as a pinch hitter in his first major league at bat. In the National Football League he played quarterback, tailback and safety for the Brooklyn Dodgers, led the league in passing yards in 1938 and was named league MVP in 1940, then played for the Boston Yanks and, in the All-America Football Conference, the New York Yankees, retiring after the 1946 championship game. He later coached baseball at Duke from 1953 to 1966, entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972, and died on 6 November 2013 aged 101, the first Hall of Famer to live past 100.