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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4432164, member: 289"] I saw both sides of Jake. In the pre-E-mail days I sent him a letter about where, as a fan and season ticket holder, I'd like to see the program go in future. I didn't know what to expect but he sent me a gracious response and poked some holes in my ideas. I sent him a thank-you note with a couple of 'points of order'. He sent me a response that said "College athletics is all about one thing: money!" and said "I see no reason to continue our 'pen-pal' relationship." If you type "SI vault Jake Crouthamel", you get this Sports Illustrated article from November 30, 1959: [URL="https://vault.si.com/vault/1959/11/30/here-are-the-best-of-the-ivies"]HERE ARE THE BEST OF THE IVIES[/URL] It has this to say about Jake: JAKE CROUTHAMEL Dartmouth halfback (5 feet 11, 191 pounds) Jake Crouthamel, in appearance a kind of Ivy League Huck Finn, is a happy boy. He loves to play football and he is good at it—a tiger on defense, one of the best all-round halfbacks the Ivy League has had in years. The pros are after him to try out. He studies hard (diplomatic relations, great issues, American thought) and has the easy grace and assurance of a natural athlete whose physical ability is backed up by a good mind. He likes Ivy League football as a sport, because the competition is keen and the play is rough. "Maybe it doesn't measure up in ruggedness and personnel to some of the other conferences," he says, "but you always know, afterwards, that you've been in a football game." Jake Crouthamel has a beef, however. "I have a scholarship based on need," says Jake, whose father is a foreman in a Perkasie, Pa. garment plant and has made sacrifices to send his son and a daughter to college. "Yet every year except this one it's been cut." He believes the Ivies should relax the rules, allow spring training, let the players compete in postseason games if they are given the chance. "But the Ivy League code forbids participation, and this I resent." He obviously wanted to be a part of something more ambitious in the world of athletics and that's how he wound up here and made us into something much bigger than we'd ever had before. Other people contributed to that, but Jake was like the point guard you run your offense through. Towards the end, he was more of a "protect my legacy guy". But it was quite a legacy. I found this photograph from his Dartmouth days. Nice crew cut! [IMG]https://sujuiceonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/jake.jpeg[/IMG] (The others are his head coach at Dartmouth, Bob Blackmon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller.) [/QUOTE]

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