Richard B. Dodson was a college football player.

[1] Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt Commodores led 7–0 until a late Dick Dodson run tied the score.

[3] Dodson was considered the best of Southern backfields along with Bill Spears and Herdis McCrary.

[4] That year Dodson set a record with a 91 yard run versus Transylvania.

[7] In the Tennessee-Vanderbilt game of '27, Dodson carried the ball but four times, yet was the main reason for Tennessee keeping the game a tie.