Researching Link Lyman
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 152 people with the Lyman surname? In that year Lyman was ranked number 3427 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Link Lyman on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Link Lyman and the Lyman Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 356 people with the Lyman surname in the UK? Lyman is now ranked number 3705 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Link Lyman
Link Lyman
William Roy "Link" Lyman (November 30, 1898 – December 28, 1972), also sometimes known as Roy Lyman, was an American football player and coach.
Lyman was born in Nebraska and raised in Kansas. He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team in 1918, 1919, and 1921. He played professional football as a tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Canton/Cleveland Bulldogs (1922–1925), the Frankford Yellow Jackets (1925), and the Chicago Bears (1926–1928, 1930–1932, and 1933–1934). He won four NFL championships (1922, 1923, and 1924 with the Bulldogs and 1933 with the Bears) and was selected five times as a first-team All-Pro player (1923, 1924, 1925, 1930, and 1934).
Lyman was an assistant football coach at Nebraska from 1935 to 1941 and at Creighton University in 1942. He later had a career in the insurance business. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964. He died in an automobile crash in 1972 while driving to Las Vegas.
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