Harold Boyd "Hal" Easterwood (October 14, 1932 - August 13, 2005) was an

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player. Easterwood played college football at the

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position for the

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team. He was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as the first-team center on its 1954 College Football All-America Team. He later worked as a high school football coach in Mississippi and was inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

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