Ross Cooper "Rip" Hawkins (April 21, 1939 – July 28, 2015) was a professional

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player. He played five seasons in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

with the

Minnesota Vikings The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. Founded in 1960 as an expansion ...

. He died in 2015; at the time of his death, he had

Lewy body dementia Lewy body dementias are two similar and common subtypes of dementia—dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD). Both are characterized by changes in thinking, movement, behavior, and mood. The two conditions have sim ...

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* 1939 births 2015 deaths American football linebackers Minnesota Vikings players North Carolina Tar Heels football players Western Conference Pro Bowl players People from Winchester, Tennessee Players of American football from Tennessee Deaths from dementia in Wyoming Deaths from Lewy body dementia {{linebacker-1930s-stub