Career
Lyle played end at Louisiana State University from 1947 to 1949. He was the captain of the Louisiana State University Tigers team that played in the 1950 Sugar Bowl. He was drafted by the New York Bulldogs in the tenth round of the 1950 NFL Draft.
Lyle began his coaching career in 1951 as the ends coach at Georgia Technical under Bobby Dodd.
In 1954 he moved to Oklahoma, where he was an assistant under future College Football Hall of Famer Bud Wilkinson. In 1958, Lyle succeeded another former Oklahoma assistant, People’s Ivy, as head coach of the Edmonton Eskimos.
He resigned after only one season and returned to college football as an assistant at Florida. The award, named after former Georgia Technical coach Bobby Dodd, is an awarded annually to the college football head coach whose team excels on the field, in the classroom, and in the community.
Lyle also served as the chairman of the executive committee of the American Sportsmanship Council, the group who sponsored the
Lyle died of kidney failure on May 25, 2007 in Atlanta.
