In 1920, Eagan competed as a boxer in the first post-war Olympics, and won the gold medal in the light-heavyweight division.
Eagan returned to the Olympics eight years later, this time as a member of the bobsleigh crew of Bobby Fiske, who steered to victory at the Lake Placid Olympics.
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I met Eddie Egan there; he was an exception.
Eddie later became a prominent Yale boxer, winning the intercollegiate, the national American amateur heavyweight championship, the British intercollegiate and amateur light-heavyweight and heavyweight championships, and the Olympic light-heavyweight championship in 1920 and 1924.
It is amusing now to hear Eddie tell the story and what his reactions were when I made that remark in a matter-of-fact way.
Edward Eagan in his first career as a light-heavyweight boxing champion before becoming a member of the four-man bobsleigh team that captured gold at the Lake Placid Games.
American EddieEagan grew up in poverty in Denver, Colo. He went on to study at Yale, however, and attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship.
A dozen years later, Eagan was a practicing lawyer and a member of the American four-man bobsleigh team at the Lake Placid Games.
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She was the same understanding person and I was still her little boy Eddie.
I started to tell her of some of my most exciting adventures in the jungles, but what she wanted to know was what clothing I had worn, whether I had been sick, if the food had been all right.
'It's not worth it, Eddie,' he told me. 'You don't know what a champ has to put up with until you are one.
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS: As a member of the United States' four-man bobsled team that won the gold at the 1932 Lake Placid Games, EddieEagan became the first and only person to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Eagan had captured a boxinggold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games.
Their eclectic pre-race routine included a 25-minute heating of their sled's metal runners with a blowtorch - something that today would be illegal.
At a stirring ceremony in honor of our departed brother and true soldier of safety, EddieEagan, the Labor Division of the National Safety Council awarded the first Edward Eagan Soldier of Safety Commendation.
The award went to Chuck Monahan of IBEW Local 103 for his tenacious, unrelenting pursuit of workplace safety and his selfless sharing of experience and guidance.
The S.O.S. Award, as it will be known, is a tribute to the ideals and guidance that Edward Eagan practiced every day of his adult life in the promotion of safety and health for the American worker.
She listens intently as a reporter tells her the story of Eagan, the only athlete to win gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
After winning the light heavyweight boxing championship at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, Eagan joined the four-man bobsled team that captured gold for the Americans at the 1932 Lake Placid Games.
Witty may not know who Eagan was, but she wouldn't mind duplicating his feat.
During the opening ceremony, the British contingent's flag was carried by a woman, an Olympic first.
The Americans won the four-man bobsled, and team member EddieEagan became the first and only man to win both a Summer and Winter Olympic medal -- Eagan won the 1920 light heavyweight boxinggold medal.
The speed skating events were unique in that they did not follow the traditional European format of paired races, but rather group starts, heats, and elimination, much like track events.
He won two gold medals apiece at the 1948 (100-meter dash, 400-meter relay) and 1952 (110-meter hurdles, 400-meter relay) Olympic Games, becoming the first runner to win a dash event in one Olympic Games and a hurdles event in another.
Eagan's claim to fame is that he is the only athlete in Olympic history to have won gold medals in the Winter and Summer Games.
As a light-heavyweight boxer, he struck gold in the 1920 Games at Antwerp.
Billy Fiske, who had driven the 5–man U.S. bobsled to a gold medal at St. Moritz when he was only 16, steered the 4–man sled to victory in 1932.
On board was EddieEagan, the 1920 Olympic light heavyweight champion, who remains the only athlete ever to win gold medals in both the Winter and Summer Games.
Canada won its fourth consecutive hockey gold medal, but 38–year-old Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden missed in his bid for a fourth straight men's figure skating title, placing second to 22–year-old Austrian Karl Schafer.
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Author Ron Knapp has chosen ten men whose inspirational stories have made them role models for young athletes everywhere.
Among those profiled are legendary Olympians such as Greg Barton, Dick Button, EddieEagan, Eric Heiden, Greg Louganis, Billy Mills, Edwin Moses, Dan O’Brien, Jesse Owens, and Mark Spitz.
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