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Eddie Kaw

Kaw in October 1922
Personal information
Born:	(1897-01-18)January 18, 1897 Houston, Texas, U.S.
Died:	December 13, 1971(1971-12-13) (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
Buffalo Bisons (1924)
Career highlights and awards
2× National champion (1921, 1922) 2× Consensus All-American (1921, 1922)
College Football Hall of Fame

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, graduating in 1923. He was a shifty open-field runner known as one of the sport's greatest. His stride had one foot farther than the other. Kaw scored 90 points in 1921. That year, Cornell beat Penn 41–0 in the mud, and Kaw scored five touchdowns. 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. He died in Walnut Creek, California in 1971.

References

1. "Oops! — The Cornell Daily Sun". cdsun.library.cornell.edu. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
2. "The Cornell Civil Engineer". 1920.
3. "Sports Library" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 12, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2016.
4. Bishop, Morris (October 15, 2014). A History of Cornell. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801455377.
5. "Eddie Kaw Leading Individual Scorer". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 4, 1922. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com. [REDACTED]
6. "Desert Sun 6 December 1961 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
7. Eddie Kaw at the College Football Hall of Fame
8. "Eddie Kaw To Receive Grid Honors". Oakland Tribune. October 10, 1956.
9. Arnie Burdick (October 8, 1956). "Eddie Kaw in Hall of Fame". Syracuse Herald Journal.

External links

• Eddie Kaw at the College Football Hall of Fame
• Career statistics from NFL.com · Pro Football Reference

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