Jimmy Gunn, an all-American defensive end who was part of the University of Southern California’s “Wild Bunch” defensive line in 1969 and played seven years in the N.F.L., died on April 11 in Los Angeles. He was 66.
The cause was heart failure, the university said on Thursday.
Gunn joined with end Charles Weaver, tackles Al Cowlings and Tody Smith and middle guards Tony Terry and Willard Scott, who was known as Bubba, to make up the Wild Bunch, named after the 1969 western directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Known for playing with hard-hitting abandon, the Wild Bunch helped U.