Jim Clack

Date of birth:	October 26, 1947(1947-10-26)
Place of birth:	Rocky Mount, NC
Date of death:	April 7, 2006 (aged 58)
Place of death:	Greensboro, NC
Career information
Position(s):	Center Guard
College:	Wake Forest
NFL Draft:	1971 / Round: 5 / Pick: 106
Organizations
As player:
1971-1977 1978-1981	Pittsburgh Steelers New York Giants
Playing stats at NFL.com

James Thomas Clack (October 26, 1947 – April 7, 2006) was an American football guard in the National Football League. He played for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1981. He died of heart failure in 2006, after a four-year battle with cancer.

Clack graduated from Wake Forest University. He began his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he was part of two Super Bowl championship teams in 1974 and 1975. After leaving Pittsburgh in 1977, Clack spent 4 more years with the New York Giants. It was his snap that Joe Pisarcik fumbled away to Herman Edwards at the end of the November 19, 1978 game between the Giants and Edwards' Philadelphia Eagles at Giants Stadium, costing the team a certain victory in a play since known as "The Miracle at the Meadowlands" to Eagles' fans and "The Fumble" to Giants' fans (Clack had snapped it earlier than Pisarcik, still trying to get his team on board a controversial play call,^{[citation needed]} expected due to the imminent expiration of the play clock).

Clack was inducted into the Wake Forest's hall of fame in 1981, and into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

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• Obituary, from ESPN.com

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