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Darrell Charles Dess (born July 11, 1935) is a former
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 wi ...
offensive lineman in the
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for the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, and the
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.Lawrence County Historical Society
/ref> Dess was born in
New Castle, Pennsylvania New Castle is a city in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lawrence County. It is northwest of Pittsburgh, and near the Pennsylvania–Ohio border, just southeast of Youngstown, Ohio. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, ...
. He played college football at North Carolina State University where he was an All Conference guard and was drafted in the eleventh round of the
1958 NFL Draft The 1958 National Football League draft had its first four rounds held on December 2, 1957, and its final twenty-six rounds on January 28, 1958. Both sessions were held at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. This was the 12th and final year in ...
by the Redskins.Database Football.com


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1935 births People from New Castle, Pennsylvania Living people American football offensive linemen Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players NC State Wolfpack football players New York Giants players Pittsburgh Steelers players Washington Redskins players Players of American football from Pennsylvania {{offensive-lineman-1930s-stub