Kayo Lam

{{Short description|American football player (1911–1993)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox college football player

|name=Kayo Lam

|currentposition=Halfback

|school=Colorado Buffaloes

|birth_date= {{birth date|1911|10|1}}

|birth_place=Glenrock, Wyoming

|death_date= {{death date and age|1993|4|23|1911|10|1}}

|death_place=Denver, Colorado

|pastschools=

• Colorado (1933–1935)

|highlights=

• 2× NCAA rushing leader (1934, 1935)
• Colorado Sports Hall of Fame

}}

William Calvin "Kayo" Lam (October 1, 1911 – April 23, 1993) was a college football player. Lam was a prominent halfback for the Colorado Buffaloes football team, playing beside Byron White. He earned seven varsity letters at Colorado in football, track and wrestling.{{cite web|url=http://www.coloradosports.org/index.php/who-s-in-the-hall/inductees/item/142-william-kayo-lam |title=William "Kayo" Lam – Colorado Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=Coloradosports.org |date=2014-04-17 |access-date=2015-10-22}} Lam led the nation in rushing yards in 1934 and 1935.{{cite web |author=David Plati |url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2011-09-05/colorado%E2%80%99s-white-led-first-stats-listing |title=Colorado's White led first stats listing |publisher=NCAA.com |date=2011-09-09 |access-date=2015-10-22 |archive-date=2016-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920041724/http://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2011-09-05/colorado%E2%80%99s-white-led-first-stats-listing |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.nd.edu/Scholastic/VOL_0069/VOL_0069_ISSUE_0014.pdf |title=The Notre Dame Scholastic |volume=69 |publisher=Archives.nd.edu |access-date=2015-10-22}} He was the first CU athlete to play in a postseason all-star game (the East-West Shrine), and was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.{{cite web|url=http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=921305 |title=William Kayo Lam – CU Athletic Hall of Fame – CUBuffs.com – Official Athletics Web site of the University of Colorado |publisher=CUBuffs.com |date=1993-04-23 |access-date=2015-10-22}} Lam used tap dancing as a means of training.{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19351010&id=hvxQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KL4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5014,4133924&hl=en |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428223505/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19351010&id=hvxQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KL4MAAAAIBAJ&pg=5014,4133924&hl=en |archive-date=2016-04-28 |url-status=dead }}

After serving in World War II, he returned to Boulder, where he would work the next 36 years at the university, from assistant dean of men and assistant football coach to assistant athletic director and business manager.