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{{InfoboxShort gridirondescription|American football personplayer (born 1943)}}
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{{Infobox CFL biography
| name = David Lee
| image = Lee-David-1970.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|11|8|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Shreveport, Louisiana]], USAU.S.
| AFLDraftedYear = 1965
| AFLDraftedRound = [[1965 American Football League draft#Round seventeen|17]]
| AFLDraftedPick = 137
| AFLDraftedTeam = [[New England Patriots|Boston Patriots]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.profootballarchives.com/1965AFLDraft.html|title=1965 AFL Draft|access-date = March 23, 2017|archive-date=February 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225154441/http://profootballarchives.com/1965AFLDraft.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| death_date =
| death_place =
| team =
| number = 49
| status =
| position1 = [[Punter (American football)|Punter]]
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| weight_lb = 230
| college = [[Louisiana Tech University|Louisiana Tech]]
| high_school = [[Minden High School (Minden, Louisiana)|Minden High]]
| playing_years1 = [[1966 AFL season|1966]]–[[1978 NFL season|1978]]
| playing_team1 = [[Baltimore Colts]]
| career_highlights =
* [[Super Bowl]] Championchampion ([[Super Bowl V|V]])
* AFC[[NFL Championchampion]] ([[1970–711968 NFL playoffsChampionship Game|19701968]])
* First-team [[All-Pro]] ([[1969 All-Pro Team|1969]])
* Second-team All-Pro ([[1970 All-Pro Team|1970]])
| statlabel1 = Punts
| statvalue1 = 838
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| statlabel4 = Games played
| statvalue4 = 184
| statlabel5 =
| statvalue5 =
| DatabaseFootball = LEEDAV01
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'''David Allen Lee''' (born November 8, 1943) is a former [[American football]] [[Punter (American football)|punter]] for the former [[Baltimore Colts]] in the [[National Football League]] and subsequently retired from a career as a [[General Motors]] executive in [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]], the seat of [[Caddo Parish, Louisiana|Caddo Parish]], in northwestern [[Louisiana]]. He accumulated several sports records in punting for the Colts in a 12-year career from [[1966 Baltimore Colts season|1966]] until [[1978 Baltimore Colts season|1978]](NFL).
 
On October 1, 2011, Lee was inducted into the [[Louisiana Tech University Athletic Hall of Fame]].<ref>"Louisiana Tech Announces Hall of Fame Induction Class: List includes Minden's David Lee", ''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'', August 31, 2011</ref>
 
==Early years==
 
Lee was born in [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]] to Roy Lee (1916–1994) and the former Hazel Braley (1919–2007). He grew up in the small town of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]] in [[Webster Parish, Louisiana|Webster Parish]], some thirty miles east of Shreveport.
 
[[File:David Lee boyhood home in Minden, LA IMG 0616.JPG|right|200px|thumb|<span style="font-size:100%;">The house where athlete David Lee grew up in [[Minden, Louisiana]]</span>]]
 
The family home at the intersection of Goodwill and Ash streets is near a residence where the [[Country music]] singer [[David Houston (singer)|David Houston]] lived as a child. It is also in the same block as the residence of the late [[Mayor]] [[Jack Batton]]. It is a short walk from the [[Minden High School (Minden, Louisiana)|Minden High School]] stadium, then a new structure, where Lee made his first successful mark in football between 1957 and 1960. Not only was Lee All-District and All-State in football in his senior year, the fall of 1960, but he excelled similarly in [[basketball]] (1961), [[baseball]] (1959–1961), and [[Track and field|track]] (1958–1961). He was also elected by his peers to the [[Student Council]] during his senior year.
 
==College career==
 
Upon his 1961 graduation from Minden High School, Lee enrolled on a [[Athletic scholarship|football scholarship]] at Louisiana Tech, then Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] in [[Lincoln Parish, Louisiana|Lincoln Parish]]. Similarly successful in [[college football]], the tall, [[ectomorphic]] Lee excelled in [[Punt (gridiron football)|punting]].
 
==Professional career==
 
After graduation from Tech in 1965, Lee joined the [[Cleveland Browns]]. They signed the papers in Ruston at the home of the parents of football star [[Bert Jones]]. He was transferred after a year to the Colts. As a [[rookie]], Lee won the National Football League punting title.
 
In [[1969 NFL season|1969]], the Colts lost [[Super Bowl III]] to the [[New York Jets]], but Lee again won the NFL punting title. In [[1971 NFL season|1971]], the year in which the Colts defeated the [[Dallas Cowboys]] to win [[Super Bowl V]], Lee uncorked a 76-yard punt, the longest in Colts history.
 
In [[1973 NFL season|1973]], Lee's friend, the Colts' quarterback [[Johnny Unitas]], went to the [[San Diego Chargers]] after concluding his Baltimore career as the NFL's all-time leader in passing yardage. Six years after Lee retired from the Colts, the team relocated to [[Indianapolis]].
 
During his sports career, Lee was active in the [[Fellowship of Christian Athletes]] and often gave motivational lectures to young people attempting to develop their athletic abilities.
 
==Personal life==
 
Lee Briefly dated United Airlines flight attendant Mary Lustig in the early 60s. They met in [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]. Later, the two broke up.
 
Lee is married to the former Sandra Harper (born 1945), his high school cheerleader and sweetheart. She is the daughter of the late George R. Harper and the former Doris Booth (1923–2011). After the death of George Harper, Mrs. Harper married Eulus E. Wright (1913–2000); she was a past treasurer of the Calvary Missionary Baptist Church and the Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary in Minden.<ref>Doris Harper Wright obituary, ''[[Minden Press-Herald]]'', December 1, 2011</ref>
 
The Lees reside in [[Bossier City, Louisiana|Bossier City]], east of Shreveport. The Lees have a son and a daughter. Jared Harper Lee (born 1971) resides in [[Frisco, Texas]], with his wife, Heather A. Lee (born 1974). Whitney Lee Nolan (born ca. 1966), a school administrator, resides in [[Jasper, Georgia]], with her husband, Roger R. Nolan (born ca. 1960), a teacher and coach.
 
Lee has a younger brother, Danny Roy Lee (born 1953), of Minden, who played high school and college football. Danny Lee was named in 1972 as the state's second-leading collegiate punter while he attended the [[University of Louisiana at Monroe]].<ref>''Minden Press-Herald'', January 5, 1972</ref> Lee has a sister, Denece Lee Thibodeaux (born 1955), married to Charles E. Thibodeaux (born 1951), of [[Houston]]. A second sister, Mildred Diane Lee Doss (1942–1982), was the wife of Harold Wayne Doss.
 
Lee was among several outstanding football figures from his hometown of Minden during the 1960s:
 
*[[Charlie Hennigan|Charlie T. Hennigan]] (born 1935), originally from [[Bienville Parish]], graduated from Minden High School in 1953 and played for [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]] prior to joining the newly created [[Houston Oilers]] in 1960.
*The somewhat diminutive [[Fred Haynes]] (1946–2006), a 1964 Minden High School graduate, became a champion college player at LSU, where he was affectionately known as the "Littlest Tiger".{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}
*[[Larry C. Brewer|Larry Brewer]] (born 1948), a 1966 graduate of Minden High School, went on to play for Louisiana Tech as a teammate of [[Terry Bradshaw]]. He joined the [[Atlanta Falcons]] after college graduation but was unable to meet the commitment because of an injury. Brewer became a [[certified public accountant]] and worked in hospital management until he drowned in 2003 while on a family vacation in [[Hawaii]].
*[[Billy Joe Booth]] (1940–1972) played professional football for the [[Ottawa Rough Riders]] in the [[Canadian Football League]]. He was a cousin of Mrs. David Lee.<ref>Billy Joe Booth obituary. ''[[The Times (Shreveport)|Shreveport Times]]'', July 2, 1972</ref>
 
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/thetoydepartment/2009/11/catching_up_with_former_colt_d_1.html Klingaman, Mike. "Catching Up With...former Colt David Lee," ''The Toy Department'' (''The Baltimore Sun'' sports blog), Thursday, November 19, 2009.]
* [http://colts.scout.com/3/WhereAreTheyNow.html Former Colts: Where are they now?]
* [http://www.mmbolding.com/BSR/Interleague_Baltimore_Colts_Buffalo_Bills_1969.htm COLTS WHIP BILLS AS UNITAS STARS]
* [http://www.colts.com/sub.cfm?page=historyhighlights HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS]
* [http://www.mindenmemories.org//Sixties%20-%20Minden%20High%20School%20Grigs.htm ''The Grig'' 1960-1969]
* [http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=LEE&firstname=Roy&start=281 Social Security Death Index Search Results]
 
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