Phillip Morris Odle (November 23, 1942 – July 27, 2006) was an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

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who played in the

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(NFL) for the

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from 1968 to 1970. He died on July 27, 2006, at the age of 63 from chronic lung problems.

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BYU Cougars bio
1942 births 2006 deaths BYU Cougars football players Detroit Lions players American football wide receivers Players of American football from Illinois 20th-century American sportsmen {{widereceiver-1940s-stub