Doak Walker - Early Life

Early Life

Walker was born in Dallas, Texas and attended Highland Park High School in Dallas where he was a multi-sport athlete. He and future college and National Football League star Bobby Layne played together on the Highland Park football team.

Read more about this topic:  Doak Walker

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:

    “When first we faced, and touching showed
    How well we knew the early moves ...”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)