1. Eddie Crowder was an American football player and coach.
13 Facts About Eddie Crowder
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Eddie Crowder was an All-American quarterback and safety at the University of Oklahoma in the early 1950s and a successful head coach and athletic director at the University of Colorado in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Eddie Crowder played quarterback at Muskogee Central High School and won the state championship in 1948.
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Eddie Crowder was a member of Oklahoma's first National Football Championship team in 1950, and led Oklahoma to two Big Seven titles as quarterback in 1951 and 1952 and was selected all-conference the same years.
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Eddie Crowder was selected in the second round of the 1953 NFL draft by the New York Giants, but declined due to a nerve problem in his throwing arm and served in the US Army Corps of Engineers as quarterback of the Fort Hood team for 1953.
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Eddie Crowder was cut by head coach Darrell Royal because of limitations on the number of American players that a team could carry past a certain date.
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Eddie Crowder led the Eskimos to victory in all four of his games, but Royal decided to stick with the veteran Arnold.
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Eddie Crowder was an assistant coach under Red Blaik at Army in 1955 and for Bud Wilkinson back at Oklahoma for seven seasons.
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Eddie Crowder restored the program's respectability and earned national respect while rebuilding the program.
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Eddie Crowder's teams went to five bowl games while he was head coach: the 1967 Bluebonnet, 1969 Liberty, 1970 Liberty, and 1971 Astro-Bluebonnet, 1972 Gator.
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Eddie Crowder maintained ties to both Oklahoma and Colorado football programs, and assisted in the selections of Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops and Colorado head coach Dan Hawkins.
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Eddie Crowder was a voter in the Harris College Football Poll.
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Eddie Crowder battled Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2003, and died of leukemia in 2008.