In 1954, he moved to Oklahoma, where he was an assistant under future College Football Hall of Famer Bud Wilkinson.
[4] In his second and third seasons at Oklahoma, the Sooners won the College football national championship.
In 1958, Lyle succeeded another former Oklahoma assistant, Pop Ivy, as head coach of the Edmonton Eskimos.
[6] The award, named after former Georgia Tech coach Bobby Dodd, is an awarded annually to the college football head coach whose team excels on the field, in the classroom, and in the community.
Lyle also served as the chairman of the executive committee of the American Sportsmanship Council, the group who sponsored the Bobby Dodd Award.