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{{Short description|American football player and advertising executive (1915–1992)}}
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{{Infobox college football player
| name            = Clint Frank
| image           = Clint Frank.jpg
| image_size      = 
| alt             = 
| caption         = Frank at Yale
| pastschools     = 
* [[Yale Bulldogs football|Yale]] (1935–1937) 
| currentnumber   = 14
| currentposition = [[Halfback (American football)|Halfback]]
| bowlgames       = 
| highschool      = [[Evanston Township High School|Evanston]] <br> (Evanston, Illinois)
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1915|09|13}}
| birth_place     = [[St. Louis, Missouri]], U.S.
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1992|07|07|1915|09|13}}
| death_place     = [[Evanston, Illinois]], U.S.
| height_ft       = 5
| height_in       = 10
| weight_lb       = 190
| highlights      = 
* [[Heisman Trophy]] (1937)
* [[Maxwell Award]] (1937)
* [[List of unanimous All-Americans in college football|Unanimous All-American]] ([[1937 College Football All-America Team|1937]])
* First-team [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1936 College Football All-America Team|1936]])
* 2× First-team All-Eastern ([[1936 All-Eastern football team|1936]], [[1937 All-Eastern football team|1937]])
| CFBHOF_id       = 1600
| CFBHOF_year     = 1955
}}

'''Clinton E. Frank''' (September 13, 1915 – July 7, 1992) was an [[American football]] player and advertising executive. He played as a [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]] for the [[Yale Bulldogs football|Yale Bulldogs]], where he won both the [[Heisman Trophy]] and the [[Maxwell Award]] in 1937. In 1954, he founded the Clinton E. Frank, Inc. advertising agency.

==Early life and football career==
Frank attended [[Evanston Township High School]] in [[Evanston, Illinois]], where he became known as a superb football player. He then attended [[Lawrenceville School]] as a [[postgraduate year|post-graduate]] student.

Frank attended [[Yale College]], where he was a member of [[Skull and Bones]],<ref>{{cite book | title=Yale's Ironmen: A Story of Football & Lives in the Decade of the Depression & Beyond | author=Wallace, William N. | year=2005 | pages=157 | publisher=iUniverse | isbn=9780595803798 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jY7EIpTZAPcC}}</ref> and graduated with a degree in economics in 1938. Playing for the [[Yale Bulldogs football]] team, he was a first-team selection to the All-America Teams of [[1936 College Football All-America Team|1936]] and [[1937 College Football All-America Team|1937]], the latter being a unanimous selection. As a senior, he was captain of the [[1937 Yale Bulldogs football team|1937 Bulldogs]],<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/yale1964/page/n33/mode/2up |magazine=Yale Football Media Guide |title=Year By Year Scores: 1937 |page=67 |date=1964 |accessdate=November 26, 2024 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> and scored three touchdowns in Yale's 19–0 victory over Brown.<ref name=Nidetz>{{cite news|last=Nidetz|first=Steve|title=Clinton Frank, Ad Exec, Football Star|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/07/08/clinton-frank-ad-exec-football-star/|access-date=July 26, 2013|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=July 8, 1992}}</ref> Frank won both the [[Heisman Trophy]] and [[Maxwell Award]] for the 1937 season.<ref>http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/10/18/2550328_put-your-knowledge-of-athletes.html{{dead link|date=March 2017}}</ref> He beat out [[Byron White|Byron "Whizzer" White]] for the Heisman Trophy; White later became a justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]].

Frank was selected in the 12th round of the [[1938 NFL draft]] by the [[Detroit Lions]], but he did not sign and never played professional football.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1938 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1938/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-25 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref>

Frank was married to Margaret Rathje Frank, with whom he had three sons and six daughters.<ref name=Nidetz />

==Military service==
Clint Frank attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in the [[United States Army Air Corps|Army Air Corps]], serving as an aide to General [[Jimmy Doolittle]] during [[World War II]]. Following the war he resumed his career in advertising.

==Advertising career==
Frank joined the Chicago advertising firm of [[Blackett-Sample-Hummert]] Inc., where he was employed for ten years before being promoted to advertising manager of [[Brach's|E.J. Brach and Sons]], the famed candy producer. Frank became a full partner in the advertising agency of Price, Robinson and Frank. He was able to transition this agency into his own with him as owner and president. In 1954 Frank established Clinton E. Frank Inc., a [[Chicago]] based advertising agency which was sold to [[Campbell-Ewald]] Co. of [[Detroit]] in 1976.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/09/obituaries/clint-frank-76-dies-won-heisman-in-1937.html Clinton Frank Obituary] in ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>

===Braniff Airways account===
One of Clinton E. Frank Agency's most memorable clients was the flashy [[Dallas]]-based [[Braniff International Airways]]. Frank obtained the account in 1969 from famed advertising executive [[George Lois]]. The Frank Agency created the "El Clan, Braniff" advertising scheme for Braniff's growing South American Route System. They also created the highly unique Braniff "You'll Like Flying Braniff Style" Campaign. Both campaigns came complete with musical jingles which were debuted in 1971.<ref name="Branded Skies">{{cite web|title=Jingle: Braniff "You'll Like Flying Braniff Style"|url=http://brandedskies.com/2012/08/jingle-braniff-youll-like-flying-braniff-style-1971/|work=Fly The Branded Skies|publisher=www.brandedskies.com|access-date=July 25, 2013}}</ref>

==Memberships==
* [[Baxter Travenol Laboratories]], Inc., Board Member
* [[Northwestern Memorial Hospital|Passavant Memorial Hospital]], Director
* [[Northwestern University Hospital]], Director
* [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]], Governing Member
* Yale Club of Chicago, Member
* American Association of Advertising, President
* Chicago Advertising Club, President
* [[Illinois Racing Board]], Board Member

==Honors==
* Heisman Trophy, 1937
* Maxwell Award, 1937
* All American Quarterback and captain, two time recipient, 1937
* Good Shepherd Award from [[Lambs Farm]]<ref>{{cite book | title=The Lambs of Libertyville: a working community of retarded adults | author=Unsworth, Tim | year=1990 | pages=189 | publisher=Contemporary Books | isbn=0809241781 | url=https://archive.org/details/lambsoflibertyvi00unsw/page/188/mode/2up?q=clinton}}</ref>

==Retirement and death==
Frank founded the Brain Research Foundation at the University of Chicago and the Eye Research Institute in Boston. While in retirement, he founded the American Academy of Arts.

Frank died at Evanston Hospital in [[Evanston, Illinois]] after a brief illness at the age of 76.<ref name=Nidetz />

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{College Football HoF|1600}}
* {{Heisman|clinton-frank}}

{{Heisman Winners}}
{{Maxwell Award Winners}}
{{Walter Camp Man of the Year}}
{{1937 College Football Consensus All-Americans}}
{{Lions1938DraftPicks}}

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