MSU’s top 50 football players: No. 49 Ed Bagdon

This is the second in a 50-day summer series counting down the top players in Michigan State football history, as I see them. As with last year’sMSU basketball top 50, the criteria is performance and impact at MSU only, professional career irrelevant. Have your own opinion? Leave a comment or tweet at me @Graham_Couch.

No. 49 - Ed Bagdon

Offensive guard, 1946-49, Dearborn

The skinny: There have been 13 All-American offensive lineman in MSU football history since the Outland Trophy began being awarded annually in 1946 to the best interior offensive lineman in the sport. Ed Bagdon is only Spartan to win it. Bagdon captured the award in 1949, the year he captained the Spartans, pre-Big Ten, to a 6-3 record. - Read more at LSJ.com