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Eddie Kaw
	Kaw in October 1922
Personal information
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
	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.

References

^ "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.