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Glen Gauntt

American football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ18631559
Source-derived summary

Glen Gauntt (pronounced GANT; born July 23, 1978) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for six seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Carolina Cobras, Dallas Desperados, Georgia Force, Las Vegas Gladiators, Nashville Kats, Philadelphia Soul, and Orlando Predators. He played college football at the University of South Florida, where he was part of the school's first-ever football team. He was also a member of the Augusta Stallions and Mahoning Valley Thunder of the af2, the AFL's minor league. He was the primary starter for the Dallas Desperados in 2004.

Early life

Glen Gauntt was born on July 23, 1978. He played high school football at Booker High School in Sarasota, Florida. He became the starting quarterback his sophomore year. Gauntt threw for 1,246 yards, 14 touchdowns, and eight interceptions on 146 passing attempts during the regular season as a senior in 1995. He was also an all-star third baseman on the baseball team in high school.

College career

Gauntt was a member of the Bulls football team of the University of South Florida (USF) from 1996 to 1999 and a three-year letterman from 1997 to 1999.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Glen Gauntt” as american football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1978, 2004, 1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-07-23. The account is most persuasive where Glen, Gauntt and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18631559. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2004, 1995 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from Glen Gauntt” 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.