Loyd Phillips
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Loyd Phillips is a former professional football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 player and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
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. He was the winner of the 1966 Outland Trophy
Outland Trophy
The Outland Trophy is awarded to the best United States college football interior lineman by the Football Writers Association of America. It is named after John H. Outland. One of only a few players ever to be named All-America at two positions, Outland garnered consensus All-America honors in...

 as the country's most outstanding interior lineman while playing at the University of Arkansas
Arkansas Razorbacks
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.

As a defensive tackle at Arkansas, Phillips was selected first team All-America in both the 1965
1965 College Football All-America Team
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 and 1966
1966 College Football All-America Team
The 1966 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that choose College All-America teams that season. The organizations that chose the teams were Associated Press, United Press International, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Central Press Association, Football Writers...

 seasons. He was selected by the Associated Press
Associated Press
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, United Press International, Central Press, American Football Coaches Association
American Football Coaches Association
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, and the Walter Camp Foundation in 1965. In 1966 he was selected by the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

, United Press International
United Press International
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, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Central Press Association
Central Press Association
The Central Press Association was an American newspaper syndication company based in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in business from 1910 to 1971. At its peak, the Central Press supplied features, columns, and photographs to more than 400 newspapers and 12 million daily readers.-History:Virgil Venice...

, American Football Coaches Association
American Football Coaches Association
The American Football Coaches Association is an association of over 11,000 football coaches and staff on all levels. According to its constitution, some of the main goals of the American Football Coaches Association are to "maintain the highest possible standards in football and the profession of...

, Walter Camp Foundation, Football Writers Association of America
Football Writers Association of America
The Football Writers Association of America is one of the organizations whose College Football All-America Team is recognized by the NCAA...

, Sporting News and Time Magazine in 1966. Phillips was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1992.
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