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Eagan was born into a poor family in Denver. He studied law at Yale and later at the University of Oxford. In 1920, Eagan competed as a boxer in the first post-war Olympics, and won the gold medal in the light-heavyweight division. Eagan's other boxing awards include the 1919 AAU title and a British amateur title. He also competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, but failed to medal.

Eagan returned to the Olympics eight years later, this time as a member of the bobsleigh crew of Bobby Fiske , who steered to victory at the Lake Placid OlympicsThe III Olympic Winter Games were held in Lake Placid, New York, USA and opened on February 4, 1932. Medal winners Bobsleigh Figure skating Ice hockey Nordic skiing Speed skating Medal Count Top medal-collecting nations 1932 Winter Olympics.. Eagan's performance meant he became the first Olympian to win medals in both Winter and Summer Games, and he is still the only one to have become Olympic champion in both seasons.

Later, Eagan became a lawyer, and served in the army as a colonel during World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough. He died at age 70, in Rye, New YorkRye, New York is the name of two places in Westchester County, New York. The City of Rye, The Town of Rye, containing the villages of Mamaroneck (shared with the Town of Mamaroneck), and Port Chester..