[Maple Leaf]

Not the first Stanford athlete to give up a sport for things of great importance socially.  I believe that football running back Nate Kirtman (same class as Gene Washington, George Buehler, Malcom Sinder and others) gave up football to focus on social/political issues of the day (mid to late 1960's), though I think he got knock-out in one game which may have been the primary reason for giving up the sport.  I think Kirtman was the high school player of the year in San Francisco his senior year beating out a guy who went to SFCC and then usc.

[Maple Leaf]

Not the first Stanford athlete to give up a sport for things of great importance socially.  I believe that football running back Nate Kirtman (same class as Gene Washington, George Buehler, Malcom Sinder and others) gave up football to focus on social/political issues of the day (mid to late 1960's), though I think he got knock-out in one game which may have been the primary reason for giving up the sport.  I think Kirtman was the high school player of the year in San Francisco his senior year beating out a guy who went to SFCC and then usc.