Defense
| Position | Player | Team(s) played for | College | Hall of Famer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defensive end | Doug Atkins* | Chicago Bears New Orleans Saints |
Tennessee | Yes |
| Willie Davis* | Green Bay Packers | Grambling State | Yes | |
| David "Deacon" Jones* | Los Angeles Rams | South Carolina State | Yes | |
| Defensive tackle | Alex Karras | Detroit Lions | Iowa | No |
| Bob Lilly* | Dallas Cowboys | Texas Christian | Yes | |
| Merlin Olsen* | Los Angeles Rams | Utah State | Yes | |
| Linebacker | Dick Butkus* | Chicago Bears | Illinois | Yes |
| Larry Morris | Chicago Bears | Georgia Tech | No | |
| Ray Nitschke* | Green Bay Packers | Illinois | Yes | |
| Tommy Nobis | Atlanta Falcons | Texas | No | |
| Dave Robinson* | Green Bay Packers | Penn State | Yes | |
| Cornerback | Herb Adderley* | Green Bay Packers Dallas Cowboys |
Michigan State | Yes |
| Lem Barney* | Detroit Lions | Jackson State | Yes | |
| Bobby Boyd | Baltimore Colts | Oklahoma | No | |
| Safety | Eddie Meador | Los Angeles Rams | Arkansas Tech | No |
| Larry Wilson* | St. Louis Cardinals | Utah | Yes | |
| Willie Wood* | Green Bay Packers | USC | Yes |
Read more about this topic: National Football League 1960s All-Decade Team
Famous quotes containing the word defense:
“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”
—Sun Tzu (6th–5th century B.C.)
“... most Southerners of my parents’ era were raised to feel that it wasn’t respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn’t elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 1 (1962)