Eddie Kaw
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| Position: | Halfback | ||
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| Personal information | |||
| Date of birth: | January 18, 1897 | ||
| Place of birth: | Houston, Texas | ||
| Date of death: | December 13, 1971 (aged 74) | ||
| Place of death: | Walnut Creek, California | ||
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Weight: | 168 lb (76 kg) | ||
| Career information | |||
| College: | Cornell | ||
| Career history | |||
| Buffalo Bisons (1924) | |||
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Edgar Lawrence Kaw (January 18, 1897 – December 13, 1971) was an American football player. He attended Cornell University, where he was a prominent halfback on coach Gil Dobie's Cornell Big Red football team,[1][2] graduating in 1923. He was a shifty open-field runner known as one of the sport's greatest.[3] His stride had one foot farther than the other.[4] Kaw scored 90 points in 1921.[5] That year, Cornell beat Penn 41–0 in the mud and Kaw scored five touchdowns.[6] Kaw "skipped over the ooze and water as if he were running on a cinder track, sidestepping a small lake and a Penn tackler with one and the same motion."[7] He was elected into the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year. Kaw played 11 games for the Buffalo Bisons in 1924.
In 1956, Kaw, then a resident of Oakland, California, was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He was flown to New York and inducted into the Hall of Fame during a halftime ceremony at the Cornell–Harvard game in October 1956.[8][9] He died in Walnut Creek, California in 1971.
References
- ↑ "The Cornell Daily Sun 6 November 1922 — The Cornell Daily Sun".
- ↑ "The Cornell Civil Engineer".
- ↑ http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv12/CFHSNv12n1g.pdf
- ↑ "A History of Cornell".
- ↑ "Eddie Kaw Leading Individual Scorer". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 4, 1922. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Desert Sun 6 December 1961 — California Digital Newspaper Collection".
- ↑ http://www.footballfoundation.org/Programs/CollegeFootballHallofFame/SearchDetail.aspx?id=20010
- ↑ "Eddie Kaw To Receive Grid Honors". Oakland Tribune. 1956-10-10.
- ↑ Arnie Burdick (1956-10-08). "Eddie Kaw in Hall of Fame". Syracuse Herald Journal.