Jay MacDowell

Jay MacDowell

Date of birth	(1919-09-14)September 14, 1919
Place of birth	Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death	June 15, 1992(1992-06-15) (aged 72)
Place of death	Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Career information
Position(s)	Wide receiver
US college	Washington
NFL draft	1941 / round: 3 / pick: 19
Drafted by	Cleveland Rams[1]
Career history
As player
1946–1951	Philadelphia Eagles
Career highlights and awards
2× NFL champion (1948, 1949) First-team All-American (1940) 3× First-team All-PCC (1938, 1939, 1940)
Career stats
Playing stats at DatabaseFootball.com

Jay Sidney MacDowell (September 14, 1919 – June 15, 1992) was an American football player who played tackle and end for six seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles.^[2][3] He was selected by the Cleveland Rams in the first round of the 1941 NFL draft.^[4]

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.^[5]

After the war, he did postgraduate work at Michigan State University for a year before going to play for the Philadelphia Eagles.

References

1. "1941 Cleveland Rams". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on April 10, 2007. Retrieved July 17, 2020.
2. "Jay MacDowell Stats".
3. "NFL Players | Past & Current NFL Players".
4. "1941 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
5. "Wayback Machine: Washington's 'Strauss Boys'". Retrieved March 13, 2024.