Eddie
Eagan

Three-time Olympian (1920, 1924, 1932); two-time Olympic medalist (2 golds) Antwerp 1920, gold (light-heavyweight) Paris 1924, 9th (heavyweight) Lake Placid 1932, gold (four-man)

2
GOLD

0
SILVER

0
BRONZE

Athlete Bio#

Age

Died (Aged 69)

1898-1967

Hometown

Denver, CO

Education

Longmont High School (Longmont, Colo.) Yale University; Harvard Law School; University of Oxford

Personal

Served as an artillery lieutenant during World War I...Won the U.S. amateur heavyweight title in 1919 while he was still a student at Yale University...Recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford...Was the first American to win the British amateur boxing championship...Served as an assistant district attorney for southern New York and chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission...Attained the rank of lieutenant colonel during World War II.

Hall Of Fame Bio #

Edward “Eddie” Patrick Francis Eagan is the only person to win gold medals at both the summer and winter Olympic Games. The Denver native won the U.S. amateur heavyweight title in 1919 while studying at Yale University. Eagan attended Harvard Law School and received a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford in 1922, where he became the first American to win the British amateur boxing championship. Eagan claimed his first gold medal as a light-heavyweight boxer at the Olympic Games Antwerp 1920 and his second at the Lake Placid 1932 Games, despite taking up bobsled three weeks before the Games. He passed away on June 14, 1967, in Rye, New York.