Seattle Sports

Shows

Team News

Columns

Seattle Sports

Don Perkins, 6-time Pro Bowl RB with Cowboys, dies at 84

FILE - Former Dallas Cowboy Don Perkins smiles before a halftime ceremony during the team's NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sept. 20, 2009, in Arlington, Texas. Perkins, a six-time Pro Bowl running back with the Cowboys in the 1960s, has died. He was 84. The NFL team and the University of New Mexico, where Perkins was a standout player before his professional career, said Perkins died Thursday, June 9, 2022. No cause of death was revealed. (AP Photo/Sharon Ellman, File)

FILE - Dallas Cowboys' Don Perkins is taken down by Baltimore Colts' Billy Ray Smith (74) and Ordell Braase (81) during a football game in Baltimore on Dec. 3, 1967. Perkins, a six-time Pro Bowl running back with the Cowboys in the 1960s, has died. He was 84. The NFL team and the University of New Mexico, where Perkins was a standout player before his professional career, said Perkins died Thursday, June 9, 2022. No cause of death was revealed. (AP Photo, File)

Don Perkins, 6-time Pro Bowl RB with Cowboys, dies at 84