Former Nebraska SID Don Bryant.

Don Bryant, known affectionately as “the Fat Fox,” died Friday at age 85.

Bryant, the 1998 winner of the FWAA’s Bert McGrane Award, was sports editor of The Lincoln Star from 1954 until Nebraska athletic director and football coach Bob Devaney hired Bryant as sports information director in 1962.  Later Bryant served as associated athletic director from 1976 until he retired in 1997.

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