It is difficult to assess Clark E. “Click” Jordan and George W. “Jud” Jordan as individuals because in their competitive time they were simply called “the Jordan twins.” They looked alike and played football alike – as a doubly destructive backfield force for first the Fordyce High School Redbugs and then the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Paul “Bear” Bryant was one of their Redbug teammates. At the peak of his Alabama coaching fame, Bryant was asked about “heroes” during a television interview. “Yes, I had heroes,” he said. “My hero was Clark Jordan.”
When the Redbugs beat the Little Rock Central Tigers 34-0 before a crowd of 10,000 in 1930, Clark Jordan threw a 65-yard touchdown pass to Bryant. He also scored two touchdowns on short runs after setting up one of them with an 85-yard punt return. The previous year, he had scored in the final few seconds for a 6-0 victory over Little Rock.
Another Fordyce teammate, Ike Murry, once said, “the twins just went along doing their jobs. They had more fame as schoolboys than most college stars had ever attained, but it never affected them.”
They were so identical that, according to legend, Clark threw a touchdown pass to George in one game and a fan in the stands yelled, “That’s the fastest man I ever saw. He threw the ball and then ran down the field and caught it.”
