Rip Hawkins
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Ross Cooper "Rip" Hawkins (April 21, 1939 – July 28, 2015) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for five seasons with the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Hawkins died in 2015; at the time of his death, he had Lewy body dementia.[1][2] He was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated hits to the head.[3][4]
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- Career statistics from Script error: No such module "String"..htm Pro Football Reference
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- 1939 births
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- American football linebackers
- Minnesota Vikings players
- North Carolina Tar Heels football players
- Western Conference Pro Bowl players
- People from Winchester, Tennessee
- Players of American football from Tennessee
- Deaths from dementia in Wyoming
- Deaths from Lewy body dementia
- 20th-century American sportsmen