{{Short description|American football player (1890–1989)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox college football player |image= |birth_date={{birth date|1890|8|18|mf=y}} |birth_place= Westbrook, Connecticut, U.S. |death_date=February 1, 1989 (age {{age|1890|8|18|1989|2|1}}) |death_place=Southampton, New York, U.S. |pastschools=Wesleyan (1910–1912) |currentposition=Quarterback |school=Wesleyan Cardinals |CFBHOF_id=1332 |CFBHOF_year=1966 }} '''C. Everett "Ev" Bacon''' (August 18, 1890 – February 1, 1989) was an American football quarterback in college. He was also a star athlete in baseball, basketball, tennis, and golf.<ref name="fivepotato">{{cite web|url=http://mark2.fivepotato.com/2008/04/hall-of-famer-c-everett-bacon-13-given-wesleyans-highest-athletics-honor/|title=Hall-of-Famer C. Everett Bacon '13 Given Wesleyan's Highest Athletics Honor|publisher=mark2.fivepotato.com|accessdate=2014-04-12}}</ref><ref name="nytimes">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/03/obituaries/c-everett-bacon-former-athlete-98.html|title=C. Everett Bacon, Former Athlete, 98 - New York Times|work=nytimes.com|accessdate=2014-04-12}}</ref>
Bacon was twice an All-American in football (1910 and 1912). He was "one of only two players not from an Ivy League institution on the 1912 team. One of the other All-Americans on the 1912 team was Jim Thorpe."<ref name="middletownpress">{{cite web|url=http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2011/01/14/sports/doc4d3115707d5a2758657221.txt|title=Middletown Sports Hall of Fame inductees|publisher=middletownpress.com|accessdate=2014-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305030312/http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2011/01/14/sports/doc4d3115707d5a2758657221.txt|archive-date=2012-03-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University (class of 1913),<ref name="nytimes2">{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00B16FE3F5B13738DDDAF0994DD405B838DF1D3|title=WESLEYAN SENIORS TELL THEIR CHOICES - Vote The Times the Most Popular New York Paper by Large Majority. - Article - NYTimes.com|publisher=query.nytimes.com|accessdate=2014-04-12}}</ref> Bacon helped pioneer the use of the forward pass.<ref name="wesleyan">{{cite web|url=http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics/halloffame/inductee-info/2008-spring/c-everett-bacon.html|title=C. Everett Bacon '13, Hall of Fame, Athletics - Wesleyan University|publisher=wesleyan.edu|accessdate=2014-04-12}}</ref>
In 1966, Bacon was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Since 1936, Wesleyan has awarded the C. Everett Bacon Award to the institution's Most Valuable Football Player.<ref name="middletownpress"/>
Wesleyan's Bacon Field House, a {{convert|70000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} field house, was named to honor him.<ref name="wesleyan2">{{cite web|url=http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics/deptinfo/facilitiespages/baconfieldhousetrack.html|title=Bacon Field House, Track, Athletics - Wesleyan University|publisher=wesleyan.edu|accessdate=2014-04-12}}</ref><ref name="middletowncthalloffame">{{cite web|url=http://www.middletowncthalloffame.com/2011/2011.htm|title=2011|publisher=middletowncthalloffame.com|accessdate=2014-04-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210155119/http://www.middletowncthalloffame.com/2011/2011.htm|archive-date=2012-02-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>
He is interred at the Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Warren |first1=Abby |title=Indian Hill, Unearthed: A Cemetery's Roots |url=http://wesleyanargus.com/2015/10/19/indian-hill/ |website=www.wesleyanargus.com |accessdate=14 July 2019}}</ref>
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