Bill McCaw (American football)

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Bill McCaw, born February 6, 1898 in St. Paul, Minnesota, was an American football player who played as a guard and end. He played college football for Indiana University. In the NFL, he played for the Racine Legion in 1923 and the Louisville Colonels in 1926, appearing in seven games with six starts. He stood 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 194 pounds.

McCaw served in the United States Navy in the late 1910s before college. At Indiana, he was in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. After earning a commerce degree, he was commissioned into the United States Army. After his football career, he studied education at the University of Chicago and La Crosse State Teachers College, and taught physical education at Kenosha High School.

In 1933, after working for Wisconsin Power and Light Company, McCaw returned to the Army as a first lieutenant. He served on active duty, worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps, and later became a captain in the United States Army Reserve, where he handled duties in the Department of Military Science and Tactics.

McCaw died of a heart attack on April 19, 1942, during a round-table discussion for the WIRE radio station in Bloomington, Indiana. He was buried in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, next to his daughter Jane, who had died earlier.