 | |||||||||
| No. 88 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position: | End | ||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Born: | March 13, 1938 Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.[1] | ||||||||
| Died: | June 23, 1997 (aged 59) | ||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||
| High school: | Anamosa (IA)[2] | ||||||||
| College: | Iowa | ||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1960 / round: 5 / pick: 56 | ||||||||
| AFL draft: | 1960 / round: 1 Pick: First Selections (by the Minneapolis AFL team) | ||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||
| |||||||||
| Career NFL statistics | |||||||||
| |||||||||
Donald Farris Norton (March 3, 1938 – June 23, 1997) was an American professional football end in the American Football League (AFL). He played college football at the University of Iowa and was drafted by the newly formed AFL in 1960, playing seven seasons for the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers (1960–1966), making the AFL All-Star team in 1961 and 1962. After retiring, Norton began to experience health problems from steroid use, which was widespread in the teams he played on. He suffered a heart attack at the age of 59 and died in 1997 after undergoing open heart surgery.[3]
- ^ "PLAYERS Don Norton". NFL. Retrieved September 23, 2011.
- ^ Iowa High School Sports News by Sports Spotlight - High School - Off the Bench: All-Time Native Iowans in the NFL Retrieved 2014-11-24.
- ^ "OTL: Football's first steroids team? The '63 Chargers". January 28, 2009.