Hall of Fame

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.