Joe Foss and Cotton Davidson (19)
One of the great early AFL quarterbacks was a man from Gatesville, Texas, by the name of Cotton Davidson. A former NFL castoff, Davidson broke into the AFL with the Dallas Texans. He was traded to Oakland after the Texans picked up Len Dawson in 1962, and stayed with the Raiders through the 1968 season. In August 2012, the Cove Herald talked to Davidson about his time in professional football
GATESVILLE MAN REFLECTS ON PRO FOOTBALL CAREER, ‘FUN LIFE’
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Jim Hadaway, a business associate of my dad, was a rookie halfback who was cut from the Texans’ 1960 training camp. Jim said that Cotton threw the ball hard, with pinpoint accuracy, and straight as a rope.