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rdf:type	Gridiron football person
rdfs:label	Norris Stevenson
rdfs:comment	Norris R. Stevenson (October 27, 1939 – March 3, 2012) 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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Birth Date	1939-10-27
NFLDraftedPick	142
death place	St. Louis, Missouri
Name	Norris Stevenson Stevenson, Norris
NFLDraftedTeam	Dallas Cowboys
NFLDraftedRound	11
Height in	11
Date of Death	2012-03-03
Weight lbs	190
NFLDraftedYear	1961
Import	yes
College	University of Missouri
death date	2012-03-03
playing teams	Edmonton Eskimos Dallas Cowboys BC Lions
Place of death	St. Louis, Missouri
playing years	1961 -
Height ft	5
Position	Running back
Short Description	Player of American and Canadian football
abstract	Norris R. Stevenson (October 27, 1939 – March 3, 2012) 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.