Doug Swift
Linebacker, American football player
1948 –
Who is Doug Swift?
Douglas A. Swift is a former American football linebacker who played six seasons in the National Football League for the Miami Dolphins. Swift moved into the starting lineup as a rookie and held the strongside linebacker position for the next six seasons, including the Dolphins' Super Bowl victories following the 1972 and 1973 seasons. Swift's blitz late in the second quarter of Super Bowl VII forced Washington Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer to make a hurried throw, which Nick Buoniconti intercepted and returned into Washington territory to set up the Dolphins' second touchdown in a 14-7 victory, cementing Miami's 17-0 season. Made available in the 1976 NFL Expansion Draft, he chose to retire from football and enter medical school rather than report to the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
He is a graduate of both Nottingham Senior High School and Amherst College. Swift is an anesthesiologist in Philadelphia.
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- Born
- Oct 24, 1948
Syracuse - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Amherst College
- University of Miami
- Nottingham High School
- Lived in
- Syracuse
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on July 23, 2013
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