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Dixie Stokes
American football player (1913–1967) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lee James "Dixie" Stokes Jr. (August 24, 1913 – December 1967) was an American football player.
Stokes was born in Haslam, Texas, in 1913.[1][2] He grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, attended C. E. Byrd High School, and then played college football at Centenary.[3]
He also played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) as a center for the Detroit Lions from 1937 to 1940. He was released by the Lions after the 1940 season and took a job with a Michigan tool company. He made a comeback in 1943 with the Chicago Cardinals, maintaining his weekday job with the tool company while playing football on weekends.[3][4] He appeared in 28 NFL games, 15 as a starter.[3]
Stokes married Helen Rosenblath in 1938.[5] From 1940 until his death in 1967, he worked as the sales manager of a tool company in Memphis, Michigan. He died from a heart attack in Forrest City, Arkansas, at age 54.[2][6]
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