As a middleweight Army boxer, Eddie Eagan won the championship of the Inter-Allied game sin 1919. As an Olympic light-heavyweight he won the championship in 1920. At Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State.
But last week Eddie Eagan finally took a count of ten. He resigned his job, and the...
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