Eddie Cochems, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eddie Cochems

American football player and coach

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1877

Place of Birth: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1953

Profession: baseball player, American football player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Edward Bulwer Cochems (; February 4, 1877 – April 9, 1953) 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 Agricultural College—now known as North Dakota State University (1902–1903), Clemson University (1905), Saint Louis University (1906–1908), and the University of Maine (1914).
During his three years at Saint 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 11–0 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.