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Date of birth: | December 14, 1951 |
Date of death: | June 19, 2013 (age 61) |
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Position(s): | Center |
High school: | Spring Branch High School |
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Consensus All-American (1973) |
William Henry "Bill" Wyman (December 14, 1951 - June 19, 2013)[1] was a collegiate American football player. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and played at the center position for the Texas Longhorns football team from 1971 to 1973.[2] He was a consensus first-team selection to the 1973 College Football All-America Team.[3] He has been called "the anchor of Darrell Royal's final Southwest Conference championship teams."[2] He suffered from Parkinson's disease starting in approximately 1995 and died in June 2013.[2]
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- ↑ Dates of birth and death based on (1) obituary cited below, and (2) Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line] for dates of birth and death.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Bill Wyman, 61, All-America center for Darrell Royal’s SWC champions". Houston Chronicle. June 24, 2013. http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2013/06/bill-wyman-61-all-america-center-for-darrell-royals-swc-champions/.
- ↑ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections". National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 6. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
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