Crawford Blagden (March 2, 1881 – January 11, 1937) was an American football player.
[1] His grandfather, Luther C. Clark, was one of the founders of the banking firm, Clark, Dodge & Co.[1] He attended Harvard University, where he played for the Harvard Crimson football team.
[1] In 1918, he led an advance by the 317th Infantry to rescue the survivors of the so-called "Lost Battalion" from the Argonne Forest in France.
[3][4] After the war, Blagden worked for Atlantic Navigation Corporation and later for Joseph Walker & Sons, a stock brokerage company.
[1] In January 1936, Blagden died at the Harkness Pavilion of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center after suffering an attack of influenza.