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,[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.
^"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.
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Dobie and led by one of the sport's great backfields with George Pfann, EddieKaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Jock Sutherland's Lafayette Maroons...
Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis. Fullback EddieKaw was a consensus first-team selection on the 1921 All-American football...
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in Auburn, New York. He was a halfback for the Cornell Big Red beside EddieKaw on the undefeated football teams of 1921, 1922 and 1923. "New York State...
Princeton and/or California as the 1922 national champion. Cornell halfback EddieKaw was the team captain. He was chosen as a first-team All-American by nine...
local talent such as Ailinger with big-name stars such as Benny Boynton, EddieKaw, Pete Calac and Swede Youngstrom. He was paid $50 U.S. for each game he...
Dobie and led by one of the sport's great backfields with George Pfann, EddieKaw, Floyd Ramsey, and Charles E. Cassidy. Bill Roper's Princeton team was...
dormant since 1980. In 1997, he won the AFCA Coach of the Year Award and the Eddie Robinson Award. Talley led his 2009 Villanova team to an NCAA Division I...
players included mainstays Tommy Hughitt, Benny Boynton, Pete Calac, and EddieKaw. Upon assuming the job of coach, Koppisch implemented the same system...
(1909) John M. Reed (1910–1914) Eddie Roundy (1917) Bart J. Carroll (1919–1920) Harry Sullivan (1921–1922) EddieKaw (1923–1924) Thomas Sullivan (1925–1937)...
(1909) John M. Reed (1910–1914) Eddie Roundy (1917) Bart J. Carroll (1919–1920) Harry Sullivan (1921–1922) EddieKaw (1923–1924) Thomas Sullivan (1925–1937)...
to serve as the team's fullback. The combination of Hughitt, Boynton, EddieKaw, and Calac gave Buffalo the most potent offensive backfield in the league...
(1909) John M. Reed (1910–1914) Eddie Roundy (1917) Bart J. Carroll (1919–1920) Harry Sullivan (1921–1922) EddieKaw (1923–1924) Thomas Sullivan (1925–1937)...
the Tigers." (*) Camp refers to his 1922 backfield selections: Thomas, EddieKaw of Cornell, and Harry Kipke of Michigan. In 1923 Stagg held Thomas out...
three national championships with Cornell, in 1921, 1922, and 1923 with EddieKaw and George Pfann. After his first season, he signed a five-year contract...
(1909) John M. Reed (1910–1914) Eddie Roundy (1917) Bart J. Carroll (1919–1920) Harry Sullivan (1921–1922) EddieKaw (1923–1924) Thomas Sullivan (1925–1937)...
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