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. 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.

Education and college football He attended college at Princeton University, where he played football and competed in track and field. In track, Lourie won the British AAA Championships title in the long jump event at the 1920 AAA Championships. 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." Walter Camp described Lourie as "the remarkable little general, disclosing every weak point of the opposition." He declined an offer to play for the Chicago Bears in the fledgling National Football League, and instead, remained at his alma mater as its backfield coach. He became the president of Quaker Oats in 1947. In 1953, he took a leave of absence from Quaker when President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him as the Under Secretary of State for Administration where Lourie oversaw a reorganization of the department. He died on January 15, 1990, at the age of 90 in Wilmette, Illinois.