Tommy Hudspeth, who spent two years as head coach of the Detroit Lions, has died at the age of 83.
Hudspeth, who was also head coach at BYU, UTEP and for the Canadian Football League’s Toronto Argonauts, died of cancer in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
A 1953 graduate of the University of Tulsa, Hudspeth spent two years in the military and two seasons as a high school football coach before getting an assistant-coaching job at his alma mater in 1957. In the 1960s he spent time as an assistant for the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders before becoming head coach at BYU in 1964.