Washburn University Athletics

A Topeka native, Clarence Edwinson played center position and earned a letter his Junior year in basketball in 1929. He was also a four-year letterman in football and in 1932 was named to the All-Central Conference team as running back and was an honorable mention for the AP All-American team. The 1933 Washburn yearbook described him as "probably the greatest halfback ever to play for Washburn". Washburn coach Ernest Bearg said that Edwinson was "exceptional as a ball carrier, blocker, passer and defensive safety or halfback. In my 17 years of coaching I have had only two backs that could compare.”
 
Edwinson went on to become an Air Force colonel in 1952 and also won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the ISSF World Shooting Championship in Oslo, Norway scoring a perfect 150/150. He was inducted into the Washburn Athletic Hall of Fame in 1970.