Norris Stevenson

Athlete

1939 –

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Who is Norris Stevenson?

Norris R. Stevenson was an American gridiron football player. He played college football for the MU Missouri Tigers as the first African-American to receive a football scholarship from Mizzou. He was picked in 1961 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys, but spent the season on the team's reserve list. He went on to play for the Edmonton Eskimos and the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League.

Stevenson died of colon cancer on March 3, 2012. He was 72.

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Born
Oct 27, 1939
St. Louis
Education
  • University of Missouri–Columbia
Died
Feb 17, 2025

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on July 23, 2013

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