{{Short description|American football player (1919–1992)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox NFL biography | name = Don Reece | image = Don Reece.jpg | caption = Reece, c. 1943 | number = 46 | position = Fullback | birth_date = {{birth date|1919|12|1}} | birth_place = Marysville, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1992|8|26|1919|12|1}} | death_place = Marysville, Ohio, U.S. | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 1 | weight_lbs = 230 | high_school = Marysville (OH) | college = Missouri | draftyear = 1943 | draftround = 22 | draftpick = 203 | pastteams = * Miami Seahawks (1946) | highlights = * First-team All-Big Six (1943) * 2× Second-team All-Big Six (1941, 1942) | pfr = ReecDo20 }} '''Donald Miles "Bull" Reece''' (December 1, 1919 – August 26, 1992) was an American football fullback.
Reece was born in Maysville, Missouri in 1919 and attended Maysville High School in that city. He played college football at Missouri.<ref name=PFR/> He played at the fullback position for Missouri from 1940 to 1943 and was captain of the 1942 Missouri Tigers football team that won the Big Six championship.<ref>{{cite news|title=Don Reece Returns To Missouri U.|newspaper=The St. Louis Star and Times|date=August 23, 1943|page=18|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45986416/don-reece-returns-to-missouri-u/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was also selected as a first-team player on the 1943 All-Big Six Conference football team.<ref>{{cite news|title=Sooners, Tigers dominate UP all-Big Six|newspaper=Lincoln Journal|date=November 23, 1943|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3094360/sooners_tigers_dominate/}}</ref> He also played in the 1943 East-West Shrine Game.<ref name=V5/>
In 1944, he was assigned to Notre Dame as a Navy V-5 trainee.<ref name=V5>{{cite news|title=Don Reece Going To Notre Dame As Navy Trainee|newspaper=St. Louis Star and Times|date=February 3, 1944|page=22|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45986772/don-reece-going-to-notre-dame-as-navy/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Reece played professional football for the Miami Seahawks of the All-America Football Conference in 1946. He appeared in 13 games, four of them as the Seahawks' starting fullback. He rushed for 109 yards on 30 carries.<ref name=PFR>{{cite web|title=Don Reece Stats|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=Pro-Football-Reference.com|accessdate=March 2, 2020|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/ReecDo20.htm}}</ref> He scored two touchdowns in a game against the New York Yankees.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hawks Finally Click in Defeat|newspaper=The Miami News|date=November 4, 1946|page=5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45986003/hawks-finally-click-in-defeat/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
He died in 1992 in Maysville, Missouri .<ref name=PFR/>
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