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American football player (1919–1992)

Jay MacDowell
Career information
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.
Position(s)	Wide receiver
US college	Washington
NFL draft	1941 / round: 3 / pick: 19
Drafted by	Cleveland Rams
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. He was selected 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.

References

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

v t e Cleveland Rams 1941 NFL draft selections
Rudy Mucha Abe Shires Jay MacDowell Walt (Butch) Luther Chet Haliski Jim Kisselburgh Ray Prochaska Tony Gallovich Milt Simington John Pendergast Nick Drahos Harold Punches Bill McMurray Bill Elmore Warren Densmore Gordon Wilson Kirk Hershey Cobbie Lee Harold Hursh Leo Barnes

v t e Philadelphia Eagles 1948 NFL champions
11 Tommy Thompson 15 Steve Van Buren 27 Al Johnson 30 Bosh Pritchard 32 Jack Myers 33 Russ Craft 35 Pete Pihos 36 Joe Muha 37 Ernie Steele 39 Bill Mackrides 40 Les Palmer 41 Gil Steinke 43 Jim Parmer 44 Ben Kish 45 Noble Doss 49 Pat McHugh 51 Frank Szymanski 52 Vic Lindskog 53 Alex Wojciechowicz 61 Duke Maronic 64 Mario Giannelli 65 Cliff Patton 66 Baptiste Manzini 67 John Magee 70 Al Wistert 71 Otis Douglas 73 Fred Hartman 74 Walt Barnes 75 George Savitsky 76 Bucko Kilroy 79 Vic Sears 80 Neill Armstrong 81 Dick Humbert 83 Jack Ferrante 86 Hal Prescott 88 Jay MacDowell 89 John Green
Head coach: Greasy Neale Assistant coaches: Larry Cabrelli Charley Ewart John Kellison

v t e Philadelphia Eagles 1949 NFL champions
Neill Armstrong Walt Barnes Chuck Bednarik Russ Craft Otis Douglas Jack Ferrante Mario Giannelli John Green Dick Humbert Mike Jarmoluk Bucko Kilroy Ben Kish Vic Lindskog Jay MacDowell Bill Mackrides John Magee Duke Maronic Pat McHugh Joe Muha Jack Myers Jim Parmer Cliff Patton Pete Pihos Hal Prescott Bosh Pritchard Frank Reagan George Savitsky Clyde Scott Vic Sears Leo Skladany Tommy Thompson Steve Van Buren Al Wistert Alex Wojciechowicz Frank Ziegler Head coach: Greasy Neale Assistant Coach: John Kellison

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