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Clif Groce

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ5132495 ↗
Source-derived summary

Clifton Allen Groce (born July 30, 1972) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League. He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies before playing in the NFL for the Indianapolis Colts from 1995 to 1997 and the Cincinnati Bengals from 1999 to 2000. He signed with the Houston Texans in 2002, but he did not play.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Clif Groce” as american football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Clif, Groce and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1995, 1997, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Clif, Groce and American providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5132495. The first chronological checks are 1972, 1995, 1997 and 1999.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Clif Groce” 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.