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Related: About this forumJohn Urschel fits MIT into the off-season, only gets A's in a math PhD program.
What a slacker.
http://www.businessinsider.com/offensive-lineman-john-urschel-starting-phd-at-mit-2016-5
He earned his bachelor's degree in three years at Penn State and spent his senior year working on a master's degree in mathematics, while being paid by Penn State to teach Integral Vector Calculus Trigonometry.
He won the "Academic Heisman" in 2013, an honor given to college football's top scholar-athlete.
Earlier this year, the 24-year-old, 305-pound lineman was accepted into the No. 1 ranked graduate school for mathematics, all while having a full-time job in the NFL.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,730 posts)Not all professional ball players are just dumb jocks.
Frank Rice, quarterback with the LA Rams, the Cleveland Browns, and the Washington Redskins earned a PhD in math himself early in his career.
There may have been other PhD ball players, but Rice is the only other one I'm aware of.
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(38,437 posts)LakeVermilion
(1,198 posts)Is a retired justice from the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)"I never graduated college, but I was only there for two terms--Trumans and Eisenhowers. ---Alex Karras