Donald Farris Norton is a former American football

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 end in the American Football League

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. He played college football

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 at the University of Iowa

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 and was drafted by the newly formed AFL in 1960, playing seven seasons for the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers

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 (1960–1966), making the AFL All-Star team

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in 1961 and 1962. After retiring, Norton began to experience health problems from steroid use, which was widespread in the teams he played on. He suffered a heart attack at the age of 39 and died in 1997 after undergoing open heart surgery.