Clyde Flowers

{{Short description|American football player (1921–2000)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox gridiron football person

|name = Clyde Flowers

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|position1 = Guard

|birth_date = October 16, 1921

|birth_place = Perryton, Texas, U.S.

|death_date = August 15, 2000 (age 78)

|death_place = Houston, Texas, U.S.

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|College = Texas Christian University

|high_school = Perryton High School

|playing_years1 = 1942–1944

|playing_team1 = TCU

|career_highlights =

• First-team All-American (1944)
• 2× First-team All-SWC (1943, 1944)

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Clyde Eugene Flowers (October 6, 1921 – August 15, 2000) was an American football player.

Flowers was born in Perryton, Texas, in 1921. He attended Texas Christian University (TCU) where he played at the guard position for the TCU Horned Frogs football team from 1942 to 1944. He was selected as captain of the 1943 and 1944 teams.{{cite news|title=Frogs Again Elect Flowers Captain|newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|date=September 21, 1944|page=11|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-frogs-again-ele/137323525/|via=Newspapers.com}} He was selected by the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) as a first-team player on the 1944 All-America college football team.{{cite news|author=Red Grange|title=Navy Wins Two Places On NEA All-American Eleven; Davis, Jenkins, Fenimore And Horvath Are Backs|work=The News|location=Frederick, MD|date=December 1944}} He was drafted by the New York Giants in the 3rd round of the 1944 NFL draft (21st overall) while he still had a year of eligibility, but even after graduating, he never played in the NFL and chose to go into coaching instead.

Flowers was an assistant football coach at Plainview High School in 1945 and 1946. He then served as TCU's line coach from 1947 to 1949. He resigned his coaching position to enter business in Fort Worth.{{cite news|title=Clyde Flowers Resigns as Assistant Coach at TCU|newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram|date=January 16, 1950|page=17|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-clyde-flowers-r/137323403/|via=Newspapers.com}}

Flowers was inducted into the TCU Hall of Fame in 1977 and died in 2000 at age 78 in Houston, Texas.{{cite news|title=Ex-football standout Clyde Flowers dies|date=August 16, 2000|newspaper=Amarillo Globe-News|url=http://amarillo.com/stories/2000/08/16/new_clyde.shtml|publisher=amarillo.com|accessdate=2015-01-30}}