Howard Twilley, WR on undefeated Dolphins team, dies at 81

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Two-time Super Bowl champion Howard Twilley, a member of the Miami Dolphins' undefeated 1972 team, has died at 81.

The National Football Foundation announced that Twilley died Wednesday but did not provide a cause of death.

Before landing in Miami, the wide receiver played at Tulsa. In 1965, he was a unanimous All-American and the Heisman Trophy runner-up after averaging 13.4 receptions per game, which the NFF said remains an FBS record.

"Howard Twilley was one of the greatest receivers in college football history with an uncanny ability to get open and change the course of a game," NFF chairman Archie Manning said in a statement. "He simply redefined what it meant to be a…