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| Position: | Halfback, defensive back | ||||||||
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| Born: | August 12, 1925 Midvale, Ohio, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died: | November 8, 2005 (aged 80) Lakeland, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school: | Uhrichsville | ||||||||
| College: | Army, Ohio State | ||||||||
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Dean Sparks Sensanbaugher (August 12, 1925 – November 8, 2005) was a professional American football halfback and defensive back who played two seasons for the Cleveland Browns and New York Bulldogs in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL) in the late 1940s.
Sensanbaugher grew up in Ohio. Parents Ted and Glenna Sparks Sensanbaugher. Attended Ohio State University. He played football there under head coach Paul Brown in 1943, but left the following year to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II. He transferred to the United States Military Academy and played for an Army Black Knights football team that won all of its games in 1944 and finished first in the AP Poll. When the war ended, he returned to Ohio State to finish his college career.
Sensanbaugher joined the Cleveland Browns, a professional team coached by Brown, in 1948. The Browns went undefeated that year and won a third straight AAFC championship. The Browns released him the following year, however, and he played briefly for the Bulldogs and in the Canadian Football League before leaving the sport. Sensanbaugher later worked in trucking and settled in Florida, where he died in 2005.