FAYETTEVILLE -- Fred W. Smith, whom the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville football operations center is named after, died Sunday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 84.
Smith, grew up in Fort Smith before moving to Las Vegas, and then in recent years lived in Pebble Beach, Calif. He had been suffering from heart disease.
"He was fighting," Smith's son Fred W. "Wes" Smith Jr., told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "But his heart and lungs were weakened over the years."
Arkansas' Smith Football Operations Center opened shortly before the 2013 season.