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The Florida professor who invented Gatorade has died at age 80.
Dr Robert Cade created the drink in 1965 to help rehydrate the school's athletes during games in Florida's punishing heat and named it after the university's mascot, the gator.
University legend has it that the Gators football team began winning soon after the drink was introduced.
Gatorade became a worldwide success and spawned a generation of copycat sports beverages.
