Homer Maurice Doke (November 18, 1938 – June 5, 2018) was an American football player and Texas state legislator.
He was an outstanding football player at Wichita Falls Senior High School.
He was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as a first-team player on its 1959 College Football All-America Team,[2] and he received second-team honors from the Associated Press as he helped the Longhorns win a share of the conference championship and go to the 1960 Cotton Bowl Classic where he was named co-MVP despite the Longhorns losing.
[3] He was also a finalist for the 1959 Swede Nelson Sportsmanship Award and was a National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete.
[5] While attending the University of Texas, Doke also received Academic All-America honors, served as editor-in-chief of the UT Chemical Engineering Society Magazine, and was a Rhodes Scholar candidate.