 Boydston on a 1955 Bowman football card | |||||||||
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| Position | End | ||||||||
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| Born | (1932-01-22)January 22, 1932 Ardmore, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||
| Died | December 12, 1998(1998-12-12) (aged 66) Muskogee, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||
| Weight | 210 lb (95 kg) | ||||||||
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| High school | Muskogee (Muskogee, Oklahoma) | ||||||||
| College | Oklahoma | ||||||||
| NFL draft | 1955: 1st round,2nd overall pick | ||||||||
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Max Ray Boydston (January 22, 1932 – December 12, 1998) was an American professionalfootball player who was anend in theNational Football League (NFL), andAmerican Football League (AFL).[1][2] He playedcollege football for theOklahoma Sooners, earning consensusAll-American honors in 1954.
Born inArdmore, Oklahoma, Boydston playedcollege football forBud Wilkinson'sOklahoma Sooners. In 1954 he was named a consensusAll-American,[3] chosen first-team by six of the eight selector organizations, and second-team by the other two. He was one of several Sooners from Muskogee, Oklahoma - along with the Burris brothers (Buddy,Kurt and Bob) andBo Bolinger - to earn All-Conference or All-American honors in the 1950s.[4]
Boydston was a first-round selection (second overall) in the1955 NFL draft by theChicago Cardinals. He played for the Cardinals from 1955 to 1958. In 1959, he played in the CFL for theHamilton Tiger-Cats. In the AFL he played for theDallas Texans (1960–1961) and theOakland Raiders (1962).
Boydston coached atCarroll Senior High School inSouthlake, Texas in 1964 and 1965, and again from 1970 through 1973. From 1967 to 1969, Boydston was head football coach at Stratford High School located in the Texas Panhandle.[5]
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