LOGAN, Utah-Per late Monday news, former Utah State football and track star Ray Roylance died at 96.

He was the first athlete in Aggies history to earn All-American honors as he finished third in the javelin at the 1949 NCAA Championships at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Roylance was a four-year letter-winner on the Aggies’ track squad from 1947-1950. He spent two seasons on the Aggies’ football team as well.

Roylance played both tailback and in the secondary as a two-way player for the Aggies.

He is a 1950 graduate of Utah State University earning a degree in business and administration. He was enshrined in the Utah Sports Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Utah State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.

He attempted to make the US Olympic Team after graduation but suffered from recurring bouts of malaria he had contracted while serving in the US Navy during World War II.

He became the owner of his family’s business, Smithfield Implement and later starred for the Smithfield Blue Sox Baseball club and became a dominant ski racer for his age group.

Roylance was born April 25, 1926 to Jesse M. and Hazel Miles Roylance.