Dietzel's 1958 LSU team concluded an 11–0 season with a win over Clemson in the Sugar Bowl and was a consensus national champion.
Super Bowl | 1959 | Orange Bowl | The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) | Rose Bowl Game | Rose Bowl | Pro Bowl | Orange Bowl (game) | 1959 in music | Sugar Bowl | Sugar | sugar | Sugar Ray Leonard | Bowl Championship Series | Hollywood Bowl | Fiesta Bowl | Sugar Ray Robinson | Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series) | Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy | Super Bowl XLVIII | Super Bowl XLII | Sugar Ray | Gator Bowl | 1959 in baseball | Super Bowl XLV | Cotton Bowl Classic | 2011–12 NCAA football bowl games | Sun Bowl | Rose Bowl (stadium) | Bermuda Bowl |
He was a member of the national championship winning 1958 LSU Tigers football team, and a starter for the Texans in their victory over the Houston Oilers in the longest professional football game played up to that time, the 1962 AFL Championship Game.