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Awards and Honors

1964-1973
NFL All Star Pro Bowl, nine times
1967&1968
NFL Most Valuable Defensive Player
1968&1970
L.A. Rams Most Valuable Player
1964-1971
Slashing attacker of "The Fearsome Foursome" The most devastating line ever to play the game
1964
Personally coined the term "Sack"
1967
Dubbed "Secretary of Defense" by the Rams
1965-1968
Voted Rams Most Valuable player
1970
Named "Greatest Defensive End of Modem Football" By Coach George Allen
1978
Elected to South Carolina Sports Hall of fame
1980
Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Unanimously, in his first year of eligibility
1984
Elected to the Florida Sports Hall of Fame
1985
Named "Most Valuable Ram of All Time" By the Los Angeles Times
1991
Recipient of the Vince Lombardi Award Presented by the Boy Scouts of America
1993
Voted to All Time Black College Athlete's Team
1994
Voted to NFL 75th Year All Time Team
1995
Elected to Black Sports Hall of Fame
1996
Recipient of the first annual Round Table Award Presented by Pop Wamer Little Scholars
1999
Named to "The All Madden Millennium Team"
1999
Sports illustrated Defensive End of the Century
1999
Sports illustrated's All-Century Team
1999
ESPN's Team of the Century
1999
Recipient of the Gale Sayers Lifetime Spirit Achievement Award
1999
Sporting News' Football's Greatest Players---#13
1999
Awarded "The Order of the Leather Helmet" by the National Football League Alumni Association
2000
Named to NFL Millennium All Time (28 man) Team
2001
NFL Alumni Spirit Award
2005
Named Greatest Ram of All-Time by Pro Football Weekly

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