He was a three-time All-American playing college football for the Army Black Knights A star halfback, Cagle's prominence landed him on the cover of Time magazine in 1929.

The following year Cagle became a co-owner of the new Brooklyn Dodgers NFL franchise, for which he also played, selling his stake upon his retirement in 1934.

[4] Besides being the football captain (1925), he also was a star in basketball and track and field sports at Southwestern Louisiana, where he received a degree in arts and sciences.

[5] In 1933, he and fellow former New York Giants player John Simms Kelly became co-owners of the NFL's Brooklyn Dodgers franchise.

He attended high school in Merryville, a small community about 20 miles (30 km) southwest of De Ridder.

He was believed to have tripped down a flight of stairs at the Fulton Street station of the New York City Subway on December 23.

[6] According to The Advertiser report, "Cagle tripped and fell the full length of a flight of subway steps.