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An early Rutgers football star was an All-American, valedictorian, stage and film actor, lawyer, singer, and civil rights activist. Who was this famous Rutgers graduate?
Answer: Paul Robeson
Robeson's outspoken beliefs about civil rights brought him into conflict with the US government, and he was retroactively deleted from the 1918 college football All American team. His good name and records were later reinstated, and in 1995 he was posthumously elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.