Doug Cunningham (American football)

Doug Cunningham
No. 42, 40
Date of birth	September 14, 1945
Place of birth	Louisville, Mississippi, U.S.
Date of death	January 13, 2015 (aged 69)
Place of death	Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Career information
Position(s)	Running back
US college	Mississippi
NFL draft	1967 / round: 6 / pick: 145
Career history
As player
1967–1973	San Francisco 49ers
1974	Washington Redskins
Career highlights and awards
	First-team All-SEC (1966);
Career stats
	Playing stats at NFL.com; Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com;

Julian Douglas Cunningham (September 14, 1945 – January 13, 2015) was an American professional football running back in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Mississippi and was drafted in the sixth round of the 1967 NFL/AFL draft.^[1]

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Cunningham was one of at least 345 NFL players to be diagnosed after death with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repeated hits to the head.^[2]^[3]

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