Dickson attended Waco High School before moving on to Baylor University, where he became a two-way right tackle and a two-year starter.
On September 14, 1960, Dickson was claimed off waivers by the Dallas Cowboys and played as an offensive right tackle (8 starts).
[6] He played in Super Bowl IV at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, losing to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Dickson returned to Minneapolis, after his one season in St. Louis, to live and work in sales, marketing and customer relations for computer companies.
Planning to travel across the Great Divide of the Rocky Mountains, a party of 16 became fragmented, and then got caught in a blizzard, having to spend a frigid night in the snow with few provisions.
Although everyone was rescued the next day, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Hugh Galusha died of hypothermia.