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73 Days to Miami football: All-American DL Eddie Edwards

PITTSBURGH, PA - OCTOBER 25: (Photo by George Gojkovich/Getty Images)

Eddie Edwards was an All-American defensive lineman for the Miami football team in the 1970s under head coaches Bud Elliott and Carl Selmer.

Defensive lineman Eddie Edwards was an All-American for the Miami football program in 1976. Edwards was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. As a senior in 1976, Edwards averaged 13 tackles per game and added 11 sacks according to his UMSHOF profile.

Edwards and another former Miami All-American and previous Canes Warning profiled player Don Latimer were high school teammates in Fort Pierce, Florida.