I received the following from Alf:
Dear Corry,
I am preparing a proposal for improving the academic component within a major sports academy. I should like to be able to point to men and women who have not only been to the pinnacle of achievement in their sports, but are also very strong academics – professors (Neils Bohr, Atomic physicist played football for Denmark), lawyers, doctors (example, Ken Dryden, goalie, Montreal Canadiens NHL team), scientists, etc., etc. There must be many.
I cannot find a compilation, likely because one doesn’t exist. Can you help?
Can any of you help add to Alf's list?
5 comments:
Eric Heiden, who won 5 long track speed skating gold medals in the 1980 Lake Placid Olypmics, is now an orthopedic surgeon and The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Murray, Utah.
You mean besides me? I have a PhD and played intramural flag football and racquetball. :)
How about Steve Young? From Wikipedia: "Steve Young received his law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University."
Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning has now served for a decade as a US Senator in Kentucky.
A. Bartlett Giamatti, prior to being names MLB commissioner was a Renaissance Literature professor at Yale.
NFL Defensive Lineman Joe Phillips (1986-99) earned a law degree in the offseason and practiced law at the end of his career.
There are a few. There are more--I'll get back to you.
Bill Bradley--Hall of Famer, Rhodes Scholar, and former senator.
I don't know if he would be considered an "academic" but Kerouac was quite an accomplished football player in his day.
Doug Glandville--former center fielder for the Phillies now writes an op-ed column for the NY Times
Alan Page (HOF lineman, lawyer, jurist)
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