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Position:
  
Punter / Placekicker

Name
  
Don Cockroft

Role
  
American football player


Height:
  
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Weight
  
88 kg

College:
  
Education
  
Adams State University

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Date of birth:
  
(1945-02-06) February 6, 1945 (age 70)

NFL draft:
  
1967 / Round: 3 / Pick: 55

Place of birth:
  

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Donald Lee Cockroft (born February 6, 1945) is a former American football punter and placekicker who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns. He has the third most career points for a Brown behind fellow kickers Phil Dawson (second) and Lou Groza.

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Cockroft served as the Browns' primary punter and placekicker for the first nine seasons of his career. In 1977, he dropped punting from his duties and became solely a placekicker. He and Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker/punter Dave Green were two of the last NFL players to lead their teams in both punting and kicking in the same season (1976).

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He was involved in the January 4, 1981, American Football Conference divisional play-off game versus the Oakland Raiders. Cockroft missed field goals from 47 and 30-yards in the second quarter. The Browns scored a touchdown on a 62-yard interception by Ron Bolton with 6:02 minutes left in the second quarter. But the extra point attempt by Cockroft was blocked. Cleveland would lose the game 14-12, a game which now nicknamed, Red Right 88.

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Later NFL players to have this dual distinction were Steve Little of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1979, Russell Erxleben of the New Orleans Saints briefly in 1979 and 1980, and Frank Corral for the Los Angeles Rams in 1980 and 1981.

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References

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