Everett Bacon
| Wesleyan Cardinals | |
|---|---|
| Position | Quarterback |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | August 18, 1890 Westbrook, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died: | February 1, 1989 (age 98) Southampton, New York, U.S. |
| Career history | |
| College | Wesleyan (1910–1912) |
| College Football Hall of Fame (1966) | |
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
[edit]- ^ "Hall-of-Famer C. Everett Bacon '13 Given Wesleyan's Highest Athletics Honor". mark2.fivepotato.com. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ "C. Everett Bacon, Former Athlete, 98 - New York Times". nytimes.com. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ a b "Middletown Sports Hall of Fame inductees". middletownpress.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ "WESLEYAN SENIORS TELL THEIR CHOICES - Vote The Times the Most Popular New York Paper by Large Majority. - Article - NYTimes.com". query.nytimes.com. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ "C. Everett Bacon '13, Hall of Fame, Athletics - Wesleyan University". wesleyan.edu. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ "Bacon Field House, Track, Athletics - Wesleyan University". wesleyan.edu. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ "2011". middletowncthalloffame.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ Warren, Abby. "Indian Hill, Unearthed: A Cemetery's Roots". www.wesleyanargus.com. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
- 1890 births
- 1989 deaths
- People from Westbrook, Connecticut
- American football quarterbacks
- Baseball pitchers
- Burials at Indian Hill Cemetery
- Wesleyan University alumni
- Wesleyan Cardinals football players
- Wesleyan Cardinals baseball players
- Wesleyan Cardinals men's basketball players
- Wesleyan Cardinals men's tennis players
- College Football Hall of Fame inductees
- Players of American football from Connecticut
- American men's basketball players