Don Perkins
Fullback for the early Cowboys, out of Marv Levy's New Mexico.
Don Perkins was a fullback who played his whole NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys after starring at the University of New Mexico. He died in 2022.
Quick Facts
- Number
- 43
- Position
- Fullback
- Born
- 4 March 1938
- Birthplace
- Waterloo, Iowa, U.S.
- Died
- 9 June 2022
- High school
- Waterloo West
- College
- New Mexico
- Draft year
- 1960
Lore & Background
Perkins was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1938 and earned eight letters in football and track at Waterloo West High School, where he was also elected student-body president. At New Mexico (1957-59) he played both ways for coach Marv Levy, who took him into his home when segregation kept him from finding a place to live and later named him in his Hall of Fame speech.
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