Donald Penfield Nichols (October 17, 1901 – March 14, 1978) was a college football player and attorney from Pomona, California.
[3] He was a prominent running back for Andy Smith's California Golden Bears.
He was twice selected All-Pacific Coast,[4] and made Billy Evans's "National Honor Roll" in 1922.
[6] He was elected captain of the 1923 team[7][8] as well as the representative of his class to the executive board.
[9] Nichols was one of the players who left with coach Smith on a scouting trip to Stanford in Palo Alto as the Bears were tied by Nevada.