Education
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Dukes attended Southwest DeKalb High School in Decatur, Georgia and then played in college for Clemson University.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Dukes attended Southwest DeKalb High School in Decatur, Georgia and then played in college for Clemson University.
He then played the 1959 season for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Dukes left the NFL for the upstart American Football League where he played eleven seasons for the Oilers, Boston Patriots and New York Jets. He played for the first two championship teams of the American Football League, the 1960 and 1961 Oilers, and was selected to the United Press International All-American Federation of Labor-Congress Team in 1961.
Dukes died in an automobile accident on Interstate 10 in Beaumont, Texas on June 16, 2008 at age 72.
His interment was at Oak Bluff Memorial Park in Portuguese Neches.