Jim Doran
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| Position: | Wide receiver | ||||
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| Date of birth: | August 11, 1927 | ||||
| Place of birth: | Beaver, Iowa | ||||
| Date of death: | June 30, 1994 (aged 66) | ||||
| Place of death: | Lake City, Iowa | ||||
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| College: | Iowa State | ||||
| NFL Draft: | 1951 / Round: 5 / Pick: 55 | ||||
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| Receptions: | 212 |
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| Receiving yards: | 3,667 |
James Robert Doran (August 11, 1927 – June 29, 1994) was a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Detroit Lions (1951–1959) and the Dallas Cowboys (1960–1961). He played college football at Iowa State University. He was a two-way player, playing both on offense and defense. He played 94 games as a defensive lineman, usually defensive end, and 115 games as a tight end. Injuries to teammates forced him to also become a tight end during Detroit's 1953 championship season, and he scored from that position in the 1953 NFL Championship Game. He was left unprotected in the 1960 NFL Expansion Draft, and Dallas drafted him. He was the first Pro Bowl player for the Cowboys.
Because of the small size of Beaver High School, it had no football program, so Doran practiced basketball and baseball. His first exposure to the sport was at Buena Vista College in the fall of 1947, on the "B" team, joining after a short stint in the navy during World War II. He played defensive tackle despite being a relative lightweight at 175 pounds.
Doran transferred to Iowa State University in 1948, joining the track team as a sprinter and throwing the shot put. In 1949, he helped the team post a 5–3–1 record, the school's first winning football season in a span of 14 years, and being named to the all-Big Seven team at offensive end, with 689 yards on 34 catches, breaking the single-season Big Seven receiving mark by over 200 yards.
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