My very good friend and HS teammate played fullback for Swat

An engineering major, his folks told him to get his grades up his junior year instead of playing football. He missed playing so much that he played under the assumed name "Rockwell Thisby." He made Sports Illustrated [link below]:

"The First Annual Folger Shakespeare Library's Sportsmen of the Year Awards: To Kevin Lagasse, a fullback for Swarthmore College, whose parents were so opposed to his playing football that he was listed in the school newspaper as Thisby, a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, to keep them from finding out. (When Swarthmore won its fourth straight game, he decided it was better to be Lagasse than not to be.) And to Oriole Manager Earl Weaver, known chiefly for his midsummer's night screams, who upbraided Miami Herald columnist Edwin Pope for attributing "This above all: To thine own self be true" to Horatio. "Edwin," said Weaver, "if Polonius didn't [bleep] say it, I've lived the last 35 years of my life backwards.""

Although successful, to this day he does not have a degree. We text almost every day.

Click here for link at https://www.si.com/vault/1983/02/16/625773/the-year-in-sport