Position: | End, back |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1911 |
Birth Place: | Coronado, California |
Death Place: | Bonita, California |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 1 |
Weight Lbs: | 185 |
College: | Tulsa |
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John Stacy Lyons (September 10, 1911 – November 26, 1981) was an American football player.
Lyons was born in Coronado, California, in 1911. He played college football as a back for Tulsa from 1930 to 1932, winning a reputation as a "heavy but fast back",[1] a battering blocker and a "hard line smasher."[2]
Lyons joined the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National Football League (NFL) in the fall of 1933. The Brooklyn Times Union descried him as follows:
Lyons is a blocking back and weighs 200 pounds. he combines all-around defensive skill and has been compared favorably with Father Lumpkin of Portsmouth in taking out a defensive end or back.[3]
He played at the end position and appeared in two games for the Dodgers during the 1933 season.[4]
Lyons died in 1981 in Bonita, California.[4]