Ray McDonald (running back)
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| Position: | Running back | ||
| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth: | May 7, 1944 | ||
| Place of birth: | McKinney, Texas, U.S. | ||
| Date of death: | May 4, 1993 (aged 48) | ||
| Place of death: | Dallas, Texas | ||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Weight: | 248 lb (112 kg) | ||
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| High school: | Caldwell (ID) | ||
| College: | Idaho | ||
| NFL Draft: | 1967 / Round: 1 / Pick: 13 | ||
| Career history | |||
| Washington Redskins (1967–1968) | |||
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Ray Douglas McDonald (May 7, 1944 – May 4, 1993) was a professional football player, a running back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins for two seasons, from 1967–68.
McDonald was born in McKinney, a segregated suburb of Dallas. After years in McKinney, he began high school in Alamogordo, New Mexico, and then moved to Caldwell, Idaho, after his sophomore year. A three-sport star for the Cougars for two years, he graduated from Caldwell High School in 1963. At 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) and 220 lb (100 kg), he was a high school All-American and was compared to NFL great Jim Brown.
McDonald enrolled at the University of Idaho in Moscow in 1963 and his family moved north from Caldwell to nearby Lewiston. On the mandatory freshman team his first semester, he led the Vandals to convincing wins over the freshman teams of Washington (32–18) and Washington State (36–0). (Freshmen were ineligible for NCAA varsity participation until the early 1970s.) McDonald missed the first three games of his sophomore season after tearing his Achilles tendon in a pick-up basketball game in late June. As a speedy fullback for the varsity as a sophomore, he was dubbed "Thunder Ray" after his first Battle of the Palouse game the first Vandal victory over neighboring WSU in a decade. (Idaho repeated over the Cougars in Pullman in 1965 for the first time in forty years, and would've swept three straight, but lost a late lead in the Moscow mud in 1966).
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