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Date of birth
  
November 21, 1939

Career end
  
1960

College
  
Auburn University

Position
  
Fullback


Name
  
Ed Dyas

Date joined
  
1958

Role
  
American football player

Nominations
  
Heisman Trophy

Ed Dyas Football star turned doctor Ed Dyas remembered as an Auburn great

Date of death
  
January 23, 2011 (aged 71)

NFL draft
  
1961 / Round: 5 / Pick: 62 (By the Baltimore Colts)

Awards
  
SEC Most Outstanding Back (1960)

Honors
  
FWAA 1st Team All-American (1960) 1st Team All-SEC (1960) 2nd Team All-SEC (1959)

Died
  
January 23, 2011, Mobile, Alabama, United States

Education
  
Tulane University, Auburn University

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Edmund C. Dyas (November 11, 1939 – January 23, 2011) was an American football player, who played college football from 1958 to 1960 for the Auburn Tigers. He finished fourth for the Heisman Trophy his senior season. He was an integral member on the 1958 team that finished 9-0-1. Dyas was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

After his college football career, Dyas became an orthopedic surgeon in Mobile, Alabama. He died on January 23, 2011, aged 71, from stomach cancer.

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Ed Dyas Wikipedia