Doug Dawson
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use American English Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherExpression error: Unexpected < operator.Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Douglas Arlin Dawson (born December 27, 1961) is an American former professional football guard for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) in the 1980s and 1990s.[1][2] Dawson played college football for the Texas Longhorns, receiving All-American and Academic All-American honors as a senior, and was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the second round of the 1984 NFL draft. He also played for the Houston Oilers and Cleveland Browns.
Biography
Dawson was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Memorial High School.[3] He attended the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, where he was an offensive lineman for the Texas Longhorns football team from 1980 to 1983 and was a team co-captain. He was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American as a senior in 1983. He was also honored as a member of the university's Friar Society.
The St. Louis Cardinals selected Dawson in the second round (45th pick overall) in the 1984 NFL draft, and he played for the Cardinals from Template:NFL Year to Template:NFL Year.[4] He subsequently played four seasons for the Houston Oilers (Template:NFL Year–Template:NFL Year) and his final season for the Cleveland Browns (Template:NFL Year). He played in a total of 106 NFL games, and started 70 of them.
He has had a career as a wealth management advisor in the Houston area for Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company where he ranks in the company's top 20 all-time.[5]
Template:1983 NCAA Division I-A College Football Consensus All-Americans Template:St. Louis Cardinals 1984 draft navbox
References
- Pages with script errors
- NFL player missing current team parameter
- Pages using infobox NFL biography with invalid cfl parameter
- Infobox NFL biography articles with small text
- Infobox NFL biography articles with line breaks
- Infobox NFL biography articles needing cleanup in team history
- 1961 births
- Living people
- All-American college football players
- American football offensive linemen
- Cleveland Browns players
- Houston Oilers players
- St. Louis Cardinals (football) players
- Texas Longhorns football players
- Players of American football from Houston
- Memorial High School (Hedwig Village, Texas) alumni
- 20th-century American sportsmen