Lou Sossamon, the first Associated Press football All-American in University of South Carolina history, died early Monday morning at the age of 97, his daughter Kit Smith told The State.
“I would say in the last six weeks we had seen a marked decline, but until then he was as spry and charming as every and receiving visitors,” said Smith, who added her father died of “natural causes.”
“Basically of playing too much football,” she said.
Sossamon was the president of the student body at USC and went on to serve in the Navy in World War II and serve four terms on the USC board of trustees.