Chadron State College Athletics

A native of Cambridge and the younger brother of Paul Carroll, a Hall of Famer from the 1920s, Clifford  was an all-conference guard on CSC football teams in 1931, ’32 and ’33. He was the captain of the 1933 team that went 6-1, losing only the season-opener 19-0 to the University of Colorado. During the remaining games, the Eagles outscored their foes 128-40.
After graduating in 1935, he spent seven years with the National Youth Administration before serving three years, mostly in the South Pacific, in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He later worked for the Veterans Administration and Bureau of Indian Affairs.
He was small. His teammate, Francis Montague, who also was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988, said Carroll weighed only 145 pounds, if that much. After retiring, Carroll carved dozens of “walking sticks.”