The BYU football team lost a legendary player.

Eddie Stinnett’s halfback pass to future Hall of Famer and Super Bowl champion MVP Steve Young in the 1983 Holiday Bowl to lift BYU past Missouri remains a historic play in Cougar lore. Stinnett passed away Sept. 17 at the age of 64.

Stinnett gone?

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Way too early for this native of Ohio who came to BYU as a transfer running back from Snow College and immediately made an impact.

“He was flamboyant. He was fun,” said his BYU position coach Lance Reynolds, who welcomed Stinnett to Snow College when he was there, and then coached him for two years at BYU.

“We’d just started to tap into

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