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| Date of birth: August 18, 1890 | |
| Place of birth: Westbrook, Connecticut | |
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| College(s): Wesleyan (1910–1912) | |
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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.[1][2]
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."[3] As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University (class of 1913),[4] Bacon helped pioneer the use of the forward pass.[5]
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.[3]
Wesleyan's Bacon Field House, a 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) field house, was named to honor him.[6][7]
He is interred at the Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut.[8]
Notes[]
- ↑ "Hall-of-Famer C. Everett Bacon ’13 Given Wesleyan’s Highest Athletics Honor". mark2.fivepotato.com. http://mark2.fivepotato.com/2008/04/hall-of-famer-c-everett-bacon-13-given-wesleyans-highest-athletics-honor/. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ "C. Everett Bacon, Former Athlete, 98 - New York Times". nytimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/03/obituaries/c-everett-bacon-former-athlete-98.html. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Middletown Sports Hall of Fame inductees". middletownpress.com. http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2011/01/14/sports/doc4d3115707d5a2758657221.txt. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ "WESLEYAN SENIORS TELL THEIR CHOICES - Vote The Times the Most Popular New York Paper by Large Majority. - Article - NYTimes.com". query.nytimes.com. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00B16FE3F5B13738DDDAF0994DD405B838DF1D3. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ "C. Everett Bacon '13, Hall of Fame, Athletics - Wesleyan University". wesleyan.edu. http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics/halloffame/inductee-info/2008-spring/c-everett-bacon.html. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ "Bacon Field House, Track, Athletics - Wesleyan University". wesleyan.edu. http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics/deptinfo/facilitiespages/baconfieldhousetrack.html. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ "2011". middletowncthalloffame.com. http://www.middletowncthalloffame.com/2011/2011.htm. Retrieved 2014-04-12.
- ↑ Warren, Abby. "Indian Hill, Unearthed: A Cemetery's Roots". http://wesleyanargus.com/2015/10/19/indian-hill/. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
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