Donold Lourie

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.

Early life

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.