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Position: | Placekicker / Punter | ||||
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Born: | Tucumcari, New Mexico, U.S. | November 5, 1937||||
Died: | June 18, 2015 Ventura, California, U.S. | (aged 77)||||
Height: | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||
Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||
Career information | |||||
High school: | Calexico | ||||
College: | New Mexico State | ||||
Undrafted: | 1960 | ||||
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Daniel Dario Villanueva (November 5, 1937 – June 18, 2015) was an American football professional player, television and Major League Soccer executive. Villanueva was a placekicker and punter who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. Villanueva, who was of Mexican American descent, played college football at New Mexico State University.
A news director and broadcasting executive, Villanueva was a co-founder of Univision, a major Spanish-language television network in the United States.[1]