Eddie Kaw
Eddie Kaw
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Halfback |
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| Personal information |
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| Date of birth: |
(1897-01-18)January 18, 1897 |
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Houston, Texas |
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| Date of death: |
December 13, 1971(1971-12-13) (aged 74) |
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| Place of death: |
Walnut Creek, California |
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| Height: |
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
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| Weight: |
168 lb (76 kg) |
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| Career information |
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Cornell |
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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
External links
| Eddie Kaw – championships, awards and honors |
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