Jeremy Lin And 6 Other Ivy League Athletes Who Made It In The Pros (PHOTOS)

Jeremy Lin is making waves as a point guard for the New York Knicks, but people have also noticed he has an unlikely background who scored 25 points in his last two games -- he's a Harvard grad.

The New York Times notes there aren't very many Harvard grads to have played in the NBA. However, there have been some hall of fame athletes to come from the Ivies.

Check out our slideshow of Ivy League grads (like Jeremy Lin) who later became pros!

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[Maria Bittinger]

09:21 PM on 04/09/2012

What about Ed Marinaro and Gary Woods from Cornell

[splenetic]

09:19 PM on 03/23/2012

Wow! So the fraud that everyone turns a blind eye to is not 100 % true. There are some actual student athletes.

[DrewBeck]

11:01 AM on 03/12/2012

Tiger Woods?

[JacksonHts]

06:55 PM on 03/22/2012

Stanford

[wendelswerk]

09:32 AM on 03/09/2012

That's all you got?

[Econome]

08:00 AM on 02/23/2012

I think we can all agree that it would have been impractical to make a complete list of all Ivy League athletes who went on to play professional sports: and that was not in fact the objective of this particular list. Rather, the objective was to highlight a few prominent professional athletes who had attended Ivy League schools. I think we can also agree that even by this standard the article is poorly done.

[PerryWhite]

05:17 AM on 03/21/2012

It would have been easier to name prominent professional athletes who were college dropouts.

[Anthony Garnett]

04:37 PM on 03/29/2012

That would a very long list

[MBinNYC]

07:58 AM on 02/22/2012

Derrick Harmon, played for the San Francisco 49ers, went to Cornell University (and was a classmate of mine at Bayside HS in Queens NY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Harmon

[JLTorres]

09:50 PM on 02/21/2012

I can't believe Ed Marinaro, who played at Cornell before going on to the NFL with Vikings, Jets, is not on this list. He was the first NCAA player to run for 4,000 yards and he was the runner up for the Heismann in 1971.

[JacksonHts]

06:56 PM on 03/22/2012

and he was on Hill Street Blues.....

[MrMule]

01:23 PM on 02/20/2012

Don't forget safety Kenny Hill, 3 Super Bowl rings and a degree in molecular physics from Yale. Also full back Jim Finn as well as OT Jeff Hatch both who played with the Giants and graduated from Penn

[hfdotorg]

11:56 AM on 02/17/2012

In address to James Blake, you left off Columbia's Jim McMillan. When he was inserted into The Los Angeles Lakers' starting lineup replacing Elgin Baylor, the Lakers immediately won 33 consecutive games setting an all-time NBA record that has stood to this day.

[JacksonHts]

06:57 PM on 03/22/2012

and he also played for the Buffalo Braves before the Lakers

[msvox]

01:06 AM on 02/17/2012

Doesn't tennis count? Where's James Blake?

[leorangerie]

09:01 PM on 02/16/2012

Tells you what you need to know about the NBA that before Lin it was Bill Bradley...like 40 yrs ago. Education isn't what the NBA is about.

[Jonny Levin]

09:46 PM on 02/14/2012

Gary Fencik (all-pro safety, super bowl XX winner for the Chicago bears) went to Yale University

[Samgreezy16]

01:35 PM on 02/14/2012

Might as well throw in Stephen Curry at Davidson College...

[Econome]

07:49 AM on 02/23/2012

Except that Davidson college is obviously not part of the Ivy League.

[brandpro]

06:52 AM on 02/09/2012

Amazed at how little thought and effort went into this article when readers can come up with 10 times more significant names than the author. Apologies if I've duplicated any names listed below. Dick Jauron (Yale to Detroit Lions), Nick Lowery (Dartmouth to KC Chiefs and I believe still regarded as NFL's top kicker historically), Ron Darling (Yale to NY Mets), and Zak De Ossie (Brown) and Kevin Boothe (Cornell) who just won the Super Bowl with the Giants.

[daniparenteau]

03:55 AM on 02/09/2012

What about Craig Breslow (MLB- Yale), Frank Herrmann (MLB- Harvard), Ross Ohlendorf (MLB- Princeton), Chris Young (MLB- Princeton), Chris Higgins (NHL- Yale), George Parros (NHL- Princeton), Kevin Westgarth (NHL- Princeton), Brad Mills (NHL- Yale), Craig Adams (NHL- Harvard), Dominic Moore (NHL- Harvard), Louis Leblanc (NHL- Harvard), Jeff Halpern (NHL- Princeton), Darroll Powe (NHL- Princeton), Mark DeRosa (MLB- Pennsylvania), Will Venable (MLB- Princeton), Douglas Murray (NHL- Cornell), Ben Scrivens (NHL- Cornell), Matt Moulson (NHL- Cornell), Byron Bitz (NHL- Cornell), Harry Zolnierczyk (NHL- Brown), Aaron Volpatti (NHL- Brown), David Jones (NHL- Dartmouth), Lee Stempniak (NHL- Dartmouth), Ben Lovejoy (NHL- Dartmouth), Tanner Glass (NHL- Dartmouth), Nick Johnson (NHL- Dartmouth), Mike Baxter (MLB- Columbia), Ryan Lavarnway (MLB- Yale), Fernando Perez (MLB- Columbia), or Yann Danis (NHL- Brown)? Most of these players are regulars on MLB or NHL rosters as of the current or most recent season. A few are now in the minors but have spent significant time at the major-league level. There are many others I could have included that have only played in the minors or are now retired.

[libwithaclue]

02:41 PM on 02/13/2012

Ron Darling (MLB-Yale)

[AbeMartin]

04:09 PM on 02/15/2012

Moe Berg, (MLB-Baseball)