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Gatorade Inventor, R.I.P.

Posted on November 27th, 2007 1:08pm by Adam McGill
Filed under Science&Technology

As Keith Jackson has told us on numerous occasions, Dr. Robert Cade invented the sports drink in 1965 for the University of Florida’s football team. But Dr. Cade spent much of his time ’round these parts, attending UT-Southwestern and doing his residency at Parkland. The never-thirsty doctor died of kidney failure. He was 80.

2 Comments to “Gatorade Inventor, R.I.P.”

Spamboy @ November 27th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

Kidney failure, eh. From filtering out too many electrolytes?
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