Eddie Cochems

Edward Bulwer Eddie Cochems was an American football player and coach. He played football for the University of Wisconsin from 1898 to 1901 and was the head football coach at North Dakota State , Clemson , Saint Louis University , and Maine . During his three years at St. Louis, he was the first football coach to build an offense around the forward pass, which became a legal play in the 1906 college football season. Using the forward pass, Cochems 1906 team compiled an undefeated 110 record, led the nation in scoring, and outscored opponents by a combined score of 407 to 11. He is considered by some to be the father of the forward pass in American football.

Cochems was born in 1877 at Sturgeon Bay, the county seat of Door County on Wisconsins Door Peninsula. He was one ofchildren, and the smallest of seven brothers. His older brother, Henry Cochems, preceded him at the University of WisconsinMadison, where he was a star football player and shotput thrower. Cochems also had a twin brother, Carl Cochems , who became a noted opera singer.

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