From Noble, Oklahoma, Darwin Richardson lettered in three sports at OBU, but it was in football that he received significant recognition.

He was a first-team selection for the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference and the All Oklahoma Collegiate (All State) all star teams in 1937 and 1938. Richardson, a triple threat—runner, passer, and punter, received first-team recognition as a halfback in 1937 and quarterback in 1938. He was the football team captain in 1938.

Richardson played three years on the basketball team and was on the track team one year as a half-miler.

After graduating from OBU, he became a teacher and coach: Konawa High School, 1939-40; Duncan High School, 1940-46; and Cameron College, 1947-51. His 1947 Cameron Aggies team played in the Little Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

In 1951 he became the "R" in R&S Sporting Goods in Lawton and continued in that work for 26 years.

Richardson is deceased.