Clifton George Dawson (born October 8, 1983) is a former gridiron football running back.
He attended Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute in Toronto,[1] and was a good student and a letterman in football and track.
He placed tenth in the balloting for the Walter Payton Award, which is given to the top player in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision.
He ended the season by scoring the historic game-winning touchdown in the third overtime period of Harvard's 30-24 win against Yale.
[3] In his senior season, Dawson became the all-time Ivy League career rushing leader, with 4,841 yards.
Dawson earned this title on November 11, 2006 while playing Penn with a 55-yard run down the left sideline on his second carry of that game.
In attaining this title, Dawson broke the long-standing record set by Ed Marinaro of Cornell in 1971.
He broke every career rushing and scoring record that Harvard keeps and became the only offensive player in Ivy League history to be named a first-team All-Ivy selection four times.
Dawson played in eleven games with the Colts during the 2007–08 season and remained with the team during the 2008 off-season and training camp.