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Catching up with LaVell Edwards' first great quarterback at BYU

Former BYU football great and current BYUtv baseball and softball analyst Gary Sheide calls a baseball game at Larry H. Miller Field in Provo on Saturday.

Former BYU football great and current BYUtv baseball and softball analyst Gary Sheide calls a baseball game at Larry H. Miller Field in Provo on Saturday. (Mengshin Lin, Deseret News)


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During the fall of 1972, first-year head coach LaVell Edwards needed someone to put the BYU football program on the map. So, he flew to Antioch, California, and found a young man who had never heard of BYU at all.

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