torker
11-27-2007, 07:31 PM
Dr. Robert Cade, inventor of the concoction once nicknamed "Cade's Cola" and now known as Gatorade.
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Cade died Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla., from kidney failure, according to officials at the University of Florida, where he and three colleagues invented the billion-dollar sports drink industry in the mid-1960s. He was 80.
"When you would ask him what he was most proud of, he wouldn't say, as you and I might, that he saw his invention every time he walked into a 7-Eleven or attended a sports event. He would talk about how Gatorade helped cure diarrhea-related diseases in Third World countries. He would always have some strange twist to talk about regarding the invention of Gatorade."
STORY (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/5333218.html)
RIP
http://images.chron.com/photos/2007/11/16/8919096/311xInlineGallery.jpg
Cade died Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla., from kidney failure, according to officials at the University of Florida, where he and three colleagues invented the billion-dollar sports drink industry in the mid-1960s. He was 80.
"When you would ask him what he was most proud of, he wouldn't say, as you and I might, that he saw his invention every time he walked into a 7-Eleven or attended a sports event. He would talk about how Gatorade helped cure diarrhea-related diseases in Third World countries. He would always have some strange twist to talk about regarding the invention of Gatorade."
STORY (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/5333218.html)
RIP