According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, legendary Oklahoma halfback and NFL receiver Tommy McDonald passed away Monday morning at the age of 84. McDonald is one of only two former Sooners (excluding Troy Aikman) to be enshrined in Canton, Ohio.
Hall of Fame announced that former Eagles' flanker Tommy McDonald passed away this morning. He was 84.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) September 24, 2018
McDonald was one of the key cogs of Oklahoma Sooners’ record-setting mid-50s squads and was the winner of the Maxwell Award in 1956. If you talk to any knowledgable college football fan about the former Sooner, they’ll tell you that he also deserved the 1956 Heisman Trophy, which instead went to Paul Hornung of the 2-8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish.