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Doug Williams (other)
Doug or Douglas Williams is the name of: People Sports *Doug Williams (quarterback) (born 1955), American football quarterback, coach, and executive; Super Bowl XXII MVP *Doug Williams (offensive lineman) (born 1962), American football offensive lineman *Doug Williams (Australian footballer) (1923–2014), Australian rules footballer *Douglas Williams (cricketer) (1919–?), Australian cricketer *Doug Williams (wrestler) (born 1972), English professional wrestler *Doug Williams, NASCAR Winston Cup Series crew chief from 1990–1997. Other people *Doug Williams (bassist) (born 1969), American bassist for the bands Origin and Cephalic Carnage *Doug Williams (comedian), American comedian *Doug Williams (musician) (born 1956), American gospel musician *Doug Williams (polygraph critic) (1945–2021), American critic of polygraph tests *Doug Williams, an assembly line worker responsible for the Lockheed Martin shooting *Douglas Williams (sound engineer) Douglas O. Williams (July 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (quarterback)
Douglas Lee Williams (born August 9, 1955) is an American football executive and former quarterback and coach. Williams is best known for his performance with the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XXII against the Denver Broncos, where he was named Super Bowl MVP after passing for 340 yards and four touchdowns, a single-quarter Super Bowl record which he set in the second quarter, making him the first black quarterback to both start and win a Super Bowl. Following his playing career, Williams began coaching, most notably serving as the head coach of the Grambling State Tigers. Following that, Williams has been a team executive for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Virginia Destroyers, and Washington Commanders. College career Williams attended Grambling State University where he played under head coach Eddie Robinson. In his first two seasons, he played on the same team as future NFL receiver Sammy White. Williams guided the Tigers to a 36–7 (.837 winning percentage) record as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (offensive Lineman)
Douglas Williams (born October 1, 1962) is a former American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) and the World League of American Football (WLAF). He played for the Houston Oilers of the NFL, and the San Antonio Riders of the WLAF. Williams played collegiately at Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T .... Personal life Married Carolyn Crisp Williams, 2 daughters Cassady Williams, Riley Williams. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Doug 1962 births Living people American football offensive guards American football offensive tackles Houston Oilers players San Antonio Riders players Players of American football from Cincinnati Texas A&M Aggies football players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (Australian Footballer)
Doug Williams (3 February 1923 – 18 August 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). A wingman from Yallourn, Williams played in Carlton's 1945 and 1947 premierships winning teams. He captain-coached North Launceston in 1952. References External links * * Carlton Football Club players Carlton Football Club premiership players North Launceston Football Club players North Launceston Football Club coaches Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 1923 births 2014 deaths Morwell Football Club players VFL/AFL premiership players {{AFL-bio-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Williams (cricketer)
Douglas Samuel Thomas Williams (born 3 July 1919, date of death unknown) was an Australian cricketer.His batting and bowling styles were right hand bat and right arm medium respectively. He played 8 first class cricket matches for Western Australia cricket team between 1948/49 and 1951/52. Williams is deceased. See also * List of Western Australia first-class cricketers A total of 455 players have appeared for Western Australia in men's first-class cricket matches since the team's first-class debut during the 1892–93 Australian cricket season. As of the end of the 2012–13 season, Western Australia as a team ... References External links * 1919 births Year of death missing Australian cricketers Western Australia cricketers Claremont Football Club players Cricketers from Melbourne {{Australia-cricket-bio-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (wrestler)
Douglas Clayton Durdle (born 1 September 1972) is an English professional wrestler currently signed to the National Wrestling Alliance, who is better known by his ring name Doug Williams. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA - now Impact Wrestling), where he was a one–time Television Champion, two–time TNA X Division Champion and a two-time tag team champion, having held the TNA World Tag Team Championship and the IWGP Tag Team Championship once each as part of The British Invasion. He also worked as a trainer for TNA's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he was a one-time OVW Heavyweight Champion. Throughout his career, Williams has also worked in various promotions in the United Kingdom and abroad, including the Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA), One Pro Wrestling (1PW) and Pro Wrestling Noah. Professional wrestling career Early career Williams studied judo from the age of 11. Using this as his background, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (bassist)
Origin is an American technical death metal band from Topeka, Kansas, founded in 1990 under the monikers Necrotomy and Thee Abomination. They have been recognized by music critics and metal fans alike for combining a harsh sound with a high level of technical skill. Origin's music is characterized by almost exclusive use of several specific, difficult playing techniques: blast beats on the drum kit, multiple death growled vocals, and arpeggios and sweep picking on both the guitars and the bass guitar. Their songs often have uneven, shifting time signatures. 2008 saw the band breakthrough in the United States with the release of their fourth studio album, ''Antithesis'', which was seen as a hit. Biography Beginnings In the year 1990 Kansas natives Paul Ryan and Jeremy Turner got together to form a death metal group with the goal of making the music as technically proficient as they wanted it to be. They went through a few names at this time, the first was Necrotomy, which they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (comedian)
Doug Williams (born June 25, 1969) is an American comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Early life and education Williams was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He began performing stand-up comedy in 1990, five years before graduating from Alabama State University in 1995. Career After college, Williams moved to Los Angeles where he landed small roles in the 1996 remake of ''The Nutty Professor'' and ''First Kid''. Since then, he has had guest roles on many sitcoms, including ''The Bernie Mac Show''. Doug Williams has served as host and executive producer of "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up" for the past four seasons. Williams voiced plans to co-write his own TV sitcom titled ''Domestic Doug''. The show centered around protagonist "Doug Salter", a stand-up comedian trying to make it in Hollywood, not unlike Williams himself. The project never came to fruition. Emmitt Smith roast Doug Williams gained internet notoriety in the mid-2000s when a clip of him at a 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (musician)
Douglas LeAllen Williams (born September 3, 1956) is an American music artist. He started his solo music career, in 1995, with the release of gospel album, ''Heartsongs'', that was released by Blackberry Records. The album got him a Grammy Award nomination at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards for the Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album. His second album, ''When Mercy Found Me'', was released in 2003, with the backing of Blackberry Records releasing the project. His third album, ''Good Graces'', was released in 2005 by Orchard Records. The first two of these album charted on the ''Billboard'' Gospel Albums chart. Early life Williams was born on September 3, 1956, in Smithdale, Mississippi, as Douglas LeAllen Williams, the son of Leon "Pop" Williams (1908/1909 – 1989), he died in a car accident, and Amanda "Mom" Williams (b:1919 – D:August 30, 2014), she died at the age of 94. He is the youngest sibling and younger brother of Melvin Williams, and the late Franklin Delano William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Williams (polygraph Critic)
Douglas Gene Williams (October 6, 1945 – March 19, 2021) was an American critic of polygraph tests. Williams administered polygraph tests for US law enforcement and private companies but came to consider the tests unreliable and harmful. He subsequently quit and spent decades publicly condemning polygraph tests and commercially teaching techniques purported to affect test results. Williams' activism included appearing on ''60 Minutes'' and testifying before a US Congressional subcommittee. His teaching business led him to be the target of a federal sting operation in 2012 and 2013, in which agents announced intentions to use his methods to lie in polygraph tests to conceal crimes and maintain government employment. Williams provided instruction to the agents, and in 2015, he was convicted on multiple counts of mail fraud and witness tampering Witness tampering is the act of attempting to improperly influence, alter or prevent the testimony of witnesses within criminal or c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lockheed Martin Shooting
The Lockheed Martin shooting occurred on July 8, 2003, at the Lockheed Martin plant in Meridian, Mississippi. The gunman, Douglas Williams, an assembly line worker at the plant, shot 14 of his co-workers with a shotgun, killing six of them, before committing suicide. After the shooting, information surfaced depicting Williams' history of making threats and racist comments directed at African-American coworkers. Five of the six killed in the incident were black. The incident was the deadliest workplace shooting in the United States since December 2000, when Michael McDermott killed seven co-workers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Given the nature of the attack and Williams' long-known history of racially-motivated threatening behavior, the incident was described by some at the time as the worst hate crime against African-Americans since the civil rights movement. Shooting On the day of the shooting, Williams attended a mandatory ethics and diversity cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Williams (sound Engineer)
Douglas O. Williams (July 29, 1917 – January 31, 1993) was an American sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category. Selected filmography Williams won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more: ;Won * ''Patton George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in Franc ...'' (1970) ;Nominated * '' Silver Streak'' (1976) * '' The Turning Point'' (1977) * '' The Rose'' (1979) References External links * American audio engineers Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners 1993 deaths 1917 births 20th-century American engineers {{US-audio-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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