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Position: | Linebacker | ||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||
Date of birth: | April 21, 1939 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Winchester, Tennessee | ||||||||
Date of death: | July 28, 2015 | (aged 76)||||||||
Place of death: | Cheyenne, Wyoming | ||||||||
Career information | |||||||||
College: | North Carolina | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1961 / Round: 2 / Pick: 15 | ||||||||
AFL draft: | 1961 / Round: 2 / Pick: 10 | ||||||||
Career history | |||||||||
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Games played–started: | 70–66 |
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Interceptions: | 12 |
Touchdowns: | 3 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Ross Cooper "Rip" Hawkins (April 21, 1939 – July 28, 2015) was a professional American football player. He played five seasons in the National Football League with the Minnesota Vikings. He died in 2015; at the time of his death, he had Lewy body dementia.