Frank Hawkins
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| Position: | Running back | ||||||||||||
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| Born: | July 3, 1959 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | ||||||||||||
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school: | Western (Las Vegas, Nevada) | ||||||||||||
| College: | Nevada (1977–1980) | ||||||||||||
| NFL draft: | 1981 / Round: 10 / Pick: 276 | ||||||||||||
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Frank Hawkins, Jr. (born July 3, 1959) is an American former football running back who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders from 1981 to 1987. He is also a former Las Vegas City Council member.
Football career
Hawkins' football career began in Las Vegas'
In the
Nicknamed "The Hawk," his 5,333 career rushing yards at Nevada ranks fourth all-time in NCAA history behind Ricky Williams (Texas), Tony Dorsett (Pittsburgh) and Charles White (Southern California). In 1997, Hawkins was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[2]
Business career
Upon his retirement from football, Frank Hawkins served on the
Hawkins lost to former police office Michael McDonald in 1995 after the Nevada Commission on Ethics found that Hawkins breached ethics laws by profiting from a golf tournament whose participants included individuals who did business with the city.[4]
He now builds affordable houses, through federal Housing and Urban Development grants, in low-income, inner city neighborhoods in the same community in which he grew up.[5]
Hawkins is the current president of the NAACP Las Vegas Branch 1111.[6]
References
- ^ "Oakland Raiders". Archived from the original on 2008-11-17. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ Hawk, Joe (7 June 1997). "Hawkins 'carried the mail' for football's overachievers". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ Neff, Erin (9 June 1999). "Las Vegas City Council to expand by two seats". Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ "Ethics commission finds that Frank Hawkins violated ethics rule, Opinion No. 94-05, April 10, 1995". Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
- ^ Flanagan, Tanya (18 April 1998). "Hawkins group OK'd to rebuild development". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ Huffey, Dorothy (25 October 2009). "NAACP celebrates centennial as part of annual banquet". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 11 October 2011.