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Chad Levitt

American football player (born 1975)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5066291
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Chad Aaron Levitt (born November 21, 1975) is an American former NFL football player.

He is Jewish, was born in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, is 6'1", and had a playing weight of 231 pounds. He played high school football, and wrestled and competed in track and field, for Cheltenham High School, from which he graduated in 1993.

In football his 1,601 yards (1,464 m) in his senior year set a new Cheltenham High School single season rushing record, and he was First-team and Outstanding Player of Suburban One Liberty League, Academic All-League, and a Montgomery County All Star. In wrestling, he was a Suburban One All-Star. In shot put and in the 4x100 relay, he was First-team All-League. He was awarded the 1993 B'nai B'rith Sports Lodge Ted Domsky Memorial Scholar-Athlete Award.

Levitt played college football for Cornell University, as a running back. He was three-time All-Ivy, and an Associated Press All-American selection as a senior. He set a Cornell and Ivy League career record for most rushing attempts (922), and a Cornell-best record for 100-yard (91 m) rushing games in a career (24).

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“Chad Levitt” enters the record as american football player (born 1975). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chad, Levitt and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-11-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chad, Levitt and American.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5066291. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from Chad Levitt” 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.