Maurice Doke

Maurice Doke
No. 81
Position:	Guard, Linebacker
Personal information
Born:	November 18, 1938; Texas, U.S.
Died:	June 5, 2018; Houston, Texas, U.S.
Career information
College:	Texas
AFL draft:	1960 / round: 2; Pick: First Selections; (by the Denver Broncos)
Career highlights and awards
	First-team All-American (1959); First-team All-SWC (1959); Second-team All-SWC (1957);

Homer Maurice Doke (November 18, 1938 – June 5, 2018) was an American football player and state legislator. He was an outstanding football player at Wichita Falls Senior High School. Doke attended the University of Texas and played college football at the guard and linebacker positions for the Texas Longhorns from 1957 to 1959.^[1] He was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as a first-team player on its 1959 College Football All-America Team,^[2] and he received second-team honors from the Associated Press.^[3] While attending the University of Texas, Doke also received Academic All-America honors, served as editor-in-chief of the UT Chemical Engineering Society Magazine, and was a Rhodes Scholar candidate.^[1] He later served two terms in the Texas House of Representatives from 1963 to 1967.^[4]

^ ^a ^b "Maurice Doke". National Football Foundation. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
^ Ted Gangi (ed.). "FWAA All-America Since 1944: The All-Time Team" (PDF). Retrieved February 8, 2015.
^ "Cannon Is Named All America For Second Time". Daytona Beach Morning Journal. December 4, 1959. p. 10.
^ "Maurice Doke". State of Texas. Retrieved February 13, 2015.