Dwight Clark, who starred at Charlotte’s Garinger High and played at Clemson in the 1970s before scoring an iconic touchdown immortalized as “The Catch” for the San Francisco 49ers, died Monday of complications from ALS. He was 61.
Along with Steph Curry, Bobby Jones, Jim Beatty, Walter Davis and a handful of others, Clark ranks as one of the most famous former Charlotte high school athletes to ever make it really big.
With the 49ers, where he played his entire NFL career from 1979-87, Clark won two Super Bowl rings as a player and made the Pro Bowl twice.