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Football. Auburn football great Zeke Smith passes away

By Charles Goldberg
AuburnTigers.com

AUBURN, Ala. — Zeke Smith was one of the big names in Auburn football in the 1950s, and so it was his bigger-than-life banner hung with the likes of Pat Sullivan, Bo Jackson and Cam Newton at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Smith, who helped Auburn win the 1957 national title and who won the Outland Trophy in 1958, is again being remembered as one of the school's stars after passing away Friday at age 79.

Smith won the Outland Trophy in 1958 as the top lineman in the country.