Stewart Stover
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherExpression error: Unexpected < operator.Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Stewart Lynn "Smokey" Stover (August 24, 1938 – December 22, 2024) was an American football player. He played college football at Northeast Louisiana State College—now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe—as a fullback and professionally in the American Football League (AFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a linebacker.
Stover was raised in Oilton, Oklahoma, and attended a military high school in Claremore, Oklahoma. He played football at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where he was later elected to first class of the school's hall of fame in 1978.[1][2]
When he was signed in 1960 as an original Dallas Texan in the American Football League, head coach Hank Stram converted him to a linebacker. He played for the Texans in their classic double-overtime victory over the two-time defending AFL Champion Houston Oilers in 1962 and for the Kansas City Chiefs when they won the 1966 AFL title, once again over a two-time defending AFL Champion, this time the Buffalo Bills. Stover then played in the first Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers in 1967. After leaving the Chiefs following the Super Bowl, Stover played for the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger-Cats, winning the Grey Cup with them in 1967, making him the first pro football player to play in both events in a calendar year.[3][4]
After his football career, he moved to Lafayette, Louisiana and worked in the oil and petroleum industry.[1][3]
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- ↑ a b Jimmie Tramel, "'Smokey' Stover was state's super (bowl) man", Tulsa World, October 10, 2010.
- ↑ ULM Warhawk Football Records Template:Webarchive (University of Louisiana at Monroe, 2007), p.105 (accessed October 10, 2010).
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