Jay Sidney MacDowell (September 14, 1919 – June 15, 1992) was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

player who played tackle and end for six seasons for the

Philadelphia Eagles The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. The Eagles compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team plays ...

. He was drafted by the Cleveland Rams in the first round of the 1941 NFL Draft. After graduating from college, he entered the Army Air Corps as a first lieutenant and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked Dec. 7, 1941. After the war, he did postgraduate work at Michigan State University for a year before going to play for the Philadelphia Eagles.

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1919 births Players of American football from Illinois American football wide receivers Washington Huskies football players Philadelphia Eagles players 1992 deaths {{widereceiver-1910s-stub