Eddie Kaw Explained

Birth Date:January 18, 1897
Birth Place:Houston, Texas, U.S.
Death Place:Walnut Creek, California, U.S.
Position:Halfback
College:Cornell
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Height Ft:5
Height In:10
Weight Lbs:168
Collegehof:1349
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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." 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.[7] [8] He died in Walnut Creek, California in 1971.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oops! — The Cornell Daily Sun. cdsun.library.cornell.edu. 27 January 2024.
  2. Web site: The Cornell Civil Engineer. 1920.
  3. Web site: Sports Library . March 12, 2016 . March 12, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160312123611/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv12/CFHSNv12n1g.pdf . dead .
  4. Book: A History of Cornell. 9780801455377. Bishop. Morris. 15 October 2014. Cornell University Press .
  5. News: Eddie Kaw Leading Individual Scorer. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 4, 1922. 16. Newspapers.com.
  6. Web site: Desert Sun 6 December 1961 — California Digital Newspaper Collection. cdnc.ucr.edu. 27 January 2024.
  7. News: Eddie Kaw To Receive Grid Honors. Oakland Tribune. October 10, 1956.
  8. News: Arnie Burdick. Eddie Kaw in Hall of Fame. Syracuse Herald Journal. October 8, 1956.