Eddie Colman

Eddie Colman (November 1 1936 – February 6 1958) was an English football player and one of the eight Manchester United players that lost their lives in the Munich air disaster.

Colman was born in Salford and joined the club's youth team on leaving school in the summer of 1952. He became a first-team member during the 1955-56 season. Over the next two-and-a-half years he made 107 first-team appearances, scoring two goals, the second of which came in the first leg of the fateful European Cup quarter-final tie against Red Star Belgrade.

Aged 21 years and 3 months, he was the youngest person to die in the Munich Air Disaster. An accommodation building at the University of Salford is named after him—the Eddie Colman building is a block of flats located near the main campus.