As an Air Force colonel in 1952, Edwinson won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in Oslo, Norway scoring a perfect 150/150.
In 1970, Washburn inducted him into its Athletics Hall of Fame [REF].Topeka High School inducted the general into its hall of fame in 1988-89 labeling him "a colorful figure on the gridiron and in the air."[REF] .