- Born
- Died
- Birth nameEdward Patrick Francis Eagan
- Eddie Eagan was born on April 26, 1897 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He died on June 14, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Won a gold medal in Boxing (light-heavyweight) at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and a gold medal in the Four-Man Bobsled at the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. He is the only person to win a gold medal in different sports in both the Summer and Winter Games.
- Chairman of the New York Athletic Commission from 1945 to 1951.
- Competed in Boxing (heavyweight) at the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics where he lost in a grueling first round match to Briton Arthur Clifton on points.
- In 1914 he won the Western amateur boxing welterweight championship. In 1918 he won both the Western amateur boxing middleweight and heavy weight championships. 1919 he won the the Allied Forces boxing championship at the Inter-Allied games in Paris and the United States amateur boxing heavyweight championship in Boston. Later, while studying at Oxford, he became the first American to win the British amateur heavy weight championship.
- Was admitted to the U.S. Bar Association in 1932 and served as assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern New York district.
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