Dan Yochum is a former offensive lineman for the Montreal Alouettes

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 from 1972–1980 and the Edmonton Eskimos

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 in 1980 of the Canadian Football League

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. He won three Grey Cup

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s for the Alouettes and was a four-time CFL All-Star.

Yochum was selected in the second round of the 1972 NFL Draft

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 by the Philadelphia Eagles

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 after a stellar career at Syracuse University

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, but opted to go to Canada that season.

Yochum was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame

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 in 2004.