Donold Lourie

Don Lourie

Donold Lourie in 1920
Princeton Tigers
Position	Quarterback
Career history
College	Princeton (1920)
High school	LaSalle-Peru High School Phillips Exeter Academy
Personal information
Date of birth	August 22, 1899 (1899-08-22)
Place of birth	Decatur, Alabama
Date of death	January 15, 1990 (1990-01-16) (aged 90)
Place of death	Wilmette, Illinois
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	164 lb (74 kg)
College Football Hall of Fame (1974)

Donold B. Lourie (August 22, 1899 – January 15, 1990) was an American businessman, government official, and college football player. He served for many years as the president of the Quaker Oats Company, and held various other executive positions there and for several other businesses. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Lourie to a position in the State Department, and he served in that capacity for one year. Lourie attended Princeton University where he was a star quarterback, and he was named a consensus All-American as a junior. Lourie was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1974.

Lourie was born on August 22, 1899 in Decatur, Alabama. He grew up in Peru, Illinois where he attended LaSalle-Peru High School. He then attended boarding school at the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, but was constantly bullied. He played football there, and in his junior season in 1916, scored the winning touchdown against his school's "ancient rival", Andover. On the first play in the fourth quarter, he went around the left end to rush 33 yards for the game's only score.

He attended college at Princeton University where he played football and competed in track and field. In track, he won a broad jumping championship in the United Kingdom. In football, he played as a quarterback and was named a consensus All-American as a junior in 1920. Teammate and fellow All-American Stan Keck wrote a few years later that the 1920 Princeton–Yale game "stands out in my mind as that which offered the most stirring spectacle of my career." Princeton led in the last minute of the first half, 3–0, during which they had struggled against their opponent. With the ball on the Yale 40-yard line and only enough time remaining for one play, the Elis assumed that Princeton would attempt a field goal. Keck was set to be the kicker and Lourie the holder. When it became apparent Yale would attempt to block the kick, Lourie made an audible to fake a kick attempt and run the ball himself. Keck threw a block and allowed Lourie to run to the end zone for a touchdown. Princeton later extended their lead and won, 20–0, and finished the season with a 6–0–1 record.Walter Camp described Lourie as "the remarkable little general, disclosing every weak point of the opposition."