Ken MacLean, running back on Florida State's first football team in 1947, dies at 94
MacLean, a running back on Florida State’s first football team in 1947 who returned in the early 1960s as an assistant under Bill Peterson, died Thursday at Capital Regional Medical Center from pneumonia, according to his family.
MacLean was 94.
After a stint in the military, he returned to Tallahassee and was a prominent student voice behind FSU’s effort to field a varsity football team. MacLean was on the Seminoles’ first team in 1947 and led the team in rushing and receiving. He also had the team’s first reception from quarterback Don Grant.
MacLean was a three-year letterman in 1947, 1948 and 1949 under coaches Ed Williamson and Don Veller.
“Everyone on campus was excited; we had school spirit and football, all of a sudden, became the heartbeat of Florida State University, a rallying point unlike anything before,” MacLean told the Democrat in a 2017 interview.
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