Lloyd Yoder College Star to Official

July 13, 1903 - Salem, Ohio - One of Carnegie Tech’s tackles from 1923 through the 1926 season, Lloyd Yoder claimed his date of birth.

The National Football Foundation celebrates this great player with a nice biography sketch that includes that Carnegie Tech, now called Carnegie Mellon, was a big-time football power when Lloyd Yoder played. Carnegie Tech played juggernauts of the era such as Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Penn State, and West Virginia. “The Plaid Bull,” as Yoder was called, lettered four times on the gridiron at Carnegie and had a record of 21-11-2 in his time playing, which included three victories in four starts against powerful cross-town rival Pittsburgh, per the National Football Foundation. During the 1926 season, Yoder and company pulled off one of the biggest college upsets in early football when they knocked off Notre Dame 19-0, helping to secure the Plaid Bull as an All-America selection that season! Lloyd Yoder’s collegiate football records are celebrated in the College Football Hall of Fame after his induction in 1982. Lloyd proudly served in World War II as a lieutenant commander in the Navy.

Using his fine education and life lessons later in life, Yoder worked for NBC for 40 years, managing stations in San Francisco, Denver, Cleveland, and Chicago and holding the title of vice-president.

This man had football in his blood as he later worked 25 years, from 1928 to 1952, as a football official.