Dewey Proctor

Dewey Michael Proctor (July 1, 1920 – July 2, 2009) was an American football fullback.

Proctor was born in South Carolina in 1920 and attended Lake View High School in Lake View, South Carolina where he was captain of the 1938 State Championship Lake View football team.

He played college football at Furman. He was a starter on the football from 1940 to 1942 and in 1940, he led the state in scoring with 52 points. That year he was named to the All-State Team. In 1942, his last year, e was Team Captain and Most Valuable Player. He was again named to the All-State as well as the All-Southern team. That year he played in the Blue-Gray Game and was voted Most Valuable Player in the annual Carolinas Bowl Game.

He then went to serve in the Navy during World War II where he continued to play football with strong Navy teams including the 1943 Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team, whom he helped upset national champion Notre Dame. He left the Navy at the rank of Specialist 1st Class Petty Officer.

He played professional football in the All-America Football Conference for the New York Yankees in 1946, 1947, and 1949 and for the Chicago Rockets in 1948. He appeared in 25 professional football games, five of them as a starter, and tallied 280 rushing yards, 54 receiving yards, and four touchdowns.

In 1942, he was named to Furman's All-Time Football Team, and in 1982, he was inducted into the Furman Athletic Hall of Fame.

Following football, he served  as Chief of Police in Mullins, SC for 26 years. He died in 2009.