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Allan Clark

American football running back

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ4730528 ↗
Source-derived summary

Allan Vincent Clark (born June 8, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the New England Patriots, the Green Bay Packers, and the Buffalo Bills. Clark played collegiate ball for Northern Arizona University before being drafted by the Patriots in the 10th round of the 1979 NFL draft. Clark played professionally for 3 seasons and retired in 1982.

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“Allan Clark” enters the record as american football running back. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Allan, Clark and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1957, 1979, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-06-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Allan, Clark and American.
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“Allan Clark” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Allan, Clark and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4730528. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1979 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allan Clark” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.