• Youngest Albertan to be selected a Rhodes Scholar (1926).
• Served as a referee in the Western Canada Hockey League, the American Hockey League, and the National Hockey League (1929-39).
• President of the National Hockey League (1946-77).
• Presided over NHL expansion in the 1960s and 70s and helped arrange the historic Canada-Russia series in 1972.
• Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame and the Order of the British Empire.

The Campbell Division in the National Hockey League is named for a graduate of this University - Clarence Campbell. His amazing career started in Fleming, Saskatchewan, where he was born in 1905, and ended in Montreal with his death at 78 years in 1984. An exceptional student, he graduated from high school at age 15 and graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA and a law degree, LLB, at the tender age of twenty.

Clarence Campbell was a prolific, if not outstanding athlete in his youth. He participated in a wide range of sports - hockey, curling, baseball, football, lacrosse, tennis, golf and even skiing. He played running back for the Edmonton Eskimos football team and eventually took ownership of the club, in his words, "by the simple process of paying the bills.