What Texas-born physician and scientist is best known for leading a team of researchers that invented Gatorade?
Good thing it was invented at Florida instead of Florida State. Thank the stars for that or we could all be drinking
Seminole Fluid.
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Born in San Antonio in 1927, he served three years in the Navy and attended the University of Texas at Austin before enrolling in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
When he was a professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine, an assistant coach of the Florida Gators asked him why his players became so dehydrated during practice. Cade’s research led to the development of an electrolyte-rich supplement in 1965 that came to be known as Gatorade
Glad it wasn’t his alma mater, it would have been Hornade