Lee Roy Jordan, an All-America linebacker at Alabama in the early 1960s who later went on to star for the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, has died. He was 84.

Jordan was Alabama’s oldest living football All-American at the time of his passing. The Cowboys announced his death via a statement on Saturday:

A member of the College Football Hall of Fame and the Cowboys Ring of Honor, Jordan ran a highly successful lumber company in Dallas for many years after his football career ended. He was a favorite player of two legendary coaches, Alabama’s Paul “Bear” Bryant and the Cowboys’ Tom Landry.

“I can remember nothing bad about Lee Roy: first on the field, full speed every play, no way to get him to take it easy,” Bryant wrote in Bear , his 1975 autobiography. “I can’t ever recall him missing a practi

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