1. Dean Sparks Sensanbaugher 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 and National Football League in the late 1940s.
Dean Sensanbaugher played football there under head coach Paul Brown in 1943, but left the following year to serve in the US Army during World War II.
Dean Sensanbaugher 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.
Dean Sensanbaugher later worked in trucking and settled in Florida, where he died in 2005.
Dean Sensanbaugher grew up in Uhrichsville, Ohio and attended the town's high school.
Dean Sensanbaugher enrolled at Ohio State University in 1943 and made the school's football team as a freshman halfback under coach Paul Brown.
Dean Sensanbaugher returned a kickoff 103 yards for a touchdown in a game against Naval Station Great Lakes in 1944, setting a school record that still stands as of 2015.
Dean Sensanbaugher himself joined the US Army in 1944 and transferred to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Early the following year Dean Sensanbaugher was deemed ineligible to continue playing because he flunked three courses.
Dean Sensanbaugher trained in Louisiana and was moved to California in preparation for active duty, but the war ended before he was sent to fight overseas.
Dean Sensanbaugher then transferred to Amherst College in Massachusetts and back to Ohio State to finish his college career in 1947.
Dean Sensanbaugher gave up his final year of college eligibility in 1948 after he was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the 1948 AAFC Draft, a professional team in the All-America Football Conference coached by Brown.
Cleveland went undefeated in 1948 and won a third straight AAFC championship as Dean Sensanbaugher rushed for 59 yards and one touchdown.
In 1950, Dean Sensanbaugher was named an assistant coach at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, near his hometown.
Dean Sensanbaugher resumed his playing career in 1952, trying out for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League and later playing in Canada for the Toronto Argonauts.
Dean Sensanbaugher worked in the trucking industry after leaving football, and settled in Lakeland, Florida in 1992.
Dean Sensanbaugher had two sons, a daughter and one stepson.