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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."[7] He was elected into the Sphinx Head Society during his senior year. Kaw played 11 games for the Buffalo Bisons in 1924.

Eddie Kaw

Personal information
Born:	(1897-01-18)January 18, 1897 Houston, Texas
Died:	December 13, 1971(1971-12-13) (aged 74) Walnut Creek, California
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× Consensus All-American (1921, 1922)
Career NFL statistics
Player stats at NFL.com
College Football Hall of Fame

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

External links

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

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