:Bill Fleckenstein

{{Short description|American football player (1903–1967)}}

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{{Infobox NFL biography

| image = Bill Fleckenstein.jpg

| caption =

| position = Guard

| number = 15

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|11|4}}

| birth_place = Faribault, Minnesota, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1967|1|25|1903|11|4}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 1

| weight_lbs = 201

| high_school = Faribault (MN)

| college = Carleton, Iowa{{cite web |url= https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FlecBi20.htm |title=Bill Fleckenstein Stats |publisher=Pro Football Reference}}

| undraftedyear =

| teams = * Chicago Bears (1925–1930)

• Portsmouth Spartans (1930)
• Brooklyn Dodgers (1931)
• Frankford Yellow Jackets (1931)

| statlabel1 = Games played

| statvalue1 = 84

| statlabel2 = Games started

| statvalue2 = 50

| statlabel3 = Touchdowns

| statvalue3 = 1

| highlights = * Third-team All-American (1924)

| pfr = FlecBi20

}}

William Peter Fleckenstein (November 4, 1903 – January 25, 1967) was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons with the Chicago Bears, the Portsmouth Spartans, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Frankford Yellow Jackets.

In March 1934, he married the actress Mildred Harris,Mason City Globe Gazette , March 19, 1934, p. 18, [https://newspaperarchive.com/mason-city-globe-gazette/1934-03-19/page-18 Mason City Globe Gazette online on Newspaperarchive.com] who was previously married to Charlie Chaplin, with whom he lived until her death in 1944.

On April 9, 1946, he married Esther Louise Priebe. They lived in Hollywood, California. They had three children (John William, Cheryl Ann, and Julie Jane).