About Everett Bacon
Lived 1890 – 1989 (aged 98). Everett Bacon was an American baseball player and american football player.
C. Everett "Ev" Bacon (August 18, 1890 – February 1, 1989) was an American football quarterback in college. He was also a star athlete in baseball, basketball, tennis, and golf.
Bacon was twice an All-American in football (1910 and 1912). He was "one of only two players not from an Ivy League institution on the 1912 team. One of the other All-Americans on the 1912 team was Jim Thorpe." As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University (class of 1913), Bacon helped pioneer the use of the forward pass.
In 1966, Bacon was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Since 1936, Wesleyan has awarded the C. Everett Bacon Award to the institution's Most Valuable Football Player.
He is interred at the Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut.
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Who was Everett Bacon?
American football player (1890-1989)
When was Everett Bacon born?
Everett Bacon was born on 18 August 1890 in Westbrook.
When did Everett Bacon die?
Everett Bacon died on 1 February 1989 in Southampton.
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Everett Bacon was a baseball player and american football player.
What nationality was Everett Bacon?
Everett Bacon was American.
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