Crawford Blagden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American football player
Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1881
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 11-Jan-1937
Profession: athlete
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Crawford Blagden
- Crawford Blagden (March 2, 1881 – January 11, 1937) was an American football player.
- He played college football for the Harvard Crimson football team and was selected as a consensus All-American at the tackle position in 1901. Crawford was born in 1881 in New York City.
- His grandfather, Luther C.
- Clark, was one of the founders of the banking firm, Clark, Dodge & Co.
- He attended Harvard University, where he played for the Harvard Crimson football team.
- In 1901 he was selected as a consensus All-American tackle.
- The 1901 Harvard team defeated rival Yale by a score of 17 to 0.After graduating from Harvard, Blagden served as the line coach at Harvard under Percy Haughton.
- In 1914, with the outbreak of war in Europe, Blagden and Grenville Clark developed the idea to develop camps to train civilians for potential wartime service as officers.
- These camps at Plattsburgh, New York, became the Citizens' Military Training Camp.
- When the United States entered World War I, Blagden was trained at Plattsburgh and served as a lieutenant-colonel in the United States Army in France.
- In 1918, he led an advance by the 317th Infantry to rescue the survivors of the so-called "Lost Battalion" from the Argonne Forest in France.After the war, Blagden worked for Atlantic Navigation Corporation and later for Joseph Walker & Sons, a stock brokerage company.
- He retired in 1932.
- Blagden was married twice.
- In 1911, he was married to Mary Hopkins, a granddaughter of Williams College president Mark Hopkins.
- They had a son, Crawford Blagden, Jr.
- His first wife died in 1912.
- In 1918, he married his second wife, Minna E.
- MacLeod of Nova Scotia.In January 1936, Blagden died at the Harkness Pavilion of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after suffering an attack of influenza.
- He was 55 years old when he died.
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