Peter Miller (Pete) Dawkins

Peter Miller (Pete) Dawkins

Cranbrook Kingswood High School Football, Baseball Player (1954 – 1955)
U.S. Military Academy Football, Hockey Player (1956 – 1958)

Pete Dawkins was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and attended Cranbrook Kingswood High School where he was an all-league quarterback and captain of the baseball team. He went on to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he served as Brigade Commander, Senior Class President, football captain and was in the top five percent of his graduating class, the only cadet to achieve all four honors. Playing halfback for football coach Red Blaik, he won the 1958 Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award and was named an All-American. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He went on to serve in the U.S. Army for 22 years reaching the rank of Brigadier General and was awarded two Bronze Stars for Valor for service in the Vietnam war. Pete Dawkins was inducted into, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975, and was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.