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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are talking about all sport like lacrosse or crew or field hockey, these recruits statistically will presumptively be successful in their chosen careers.[/quote]

They are tiny fraction of the people who are successful in their chosen careers. Tiny. Far more people in this world are successful and did not play those sports. In other words, playing lacrosse is not what makes a person successful.[/quote]

Not presidents and CEOs.[/quote]

The only scholar-athlete president tht comes to mind is Gerald Ford.  Are there others?  Don’t know much about CEOs.  I don’t think Musk, Zuckerberg, or @jack played sportball.  Please help me out with some household names. [/quote]

Ford
Reagan
Nixon
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Bush
Carter
Wilson

Many didn’t start, were on club teams or also did cheerleading like Reagan.  I still only count Ford.

CEOs

GE Immelt
IBM Palmisano
HP Whitman
Wholefoods Robb
Sunoco Elsenhans
Bank of america Noynihan
Mondelez International Rosenfeld
Comcast Roberts (gold medal)
GM Akerson

That’s great, but they’re not HH names except for Whitman.

(many are women)[/quote]

There are many articles about this here is one... https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/11/want-to-be-a-ceo-later-play-sports-now.html[/quote][/quote]

Ford
Reagan - football, cheerleading, swimming (captain)
Nixon - football (varsity bench, practice team)
Eisenhower - football (varsity - career ending leg injury)
Kennedy - swimming and boxing (club)
Bush -cheerleading and baseball 
Bush - cheerleading and rugby
Carter - football sprint (they did football by weight - so not varsity), cross country
Roosevelt - Boxing and Rowing (club)
Roosevelt - football club (and was the 1st to start making the sport safer)
Clinton - Rugby
Taft - Wrestling[/quote]

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