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.
 Kaw in October 1922 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born: | January 18, 1897 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died: | December 13, 1971 (aged 74) Walnut Creek, California, U.S. |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Weight: | 168 lb (76 kg) |
| Career information | |
| College: | Cornell |
| Position: | Halfback |
| Career history | |
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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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
edit- ^ "Oops! — The Cornell Daily Sun". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ "The Cornell Civil Engineer". 1920.
- ^ "Sports Library" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 12, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
- ^ Bishop, Morris (October 15, 2014). A History of Cornell. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801455377.
- ^ "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". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ Eddie Kaw at the College Football Hall of Fame
- ^ "Eddie Kaw To Receive Grid Honors". Oakland Tribune. October 10, 1956.
- ^ Arnie Burdick (October 8, 1956). "Eddie Kaw in Hall of Fame". Syracuse Herald Journal.
External links
edit- Eddie Kaw at the College Football Hall of Fame
- Career statistics from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference
