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7 unusual facts about Lawrenceville School


Charles de Saulles

A native of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, de Saulles attended the Lawrenceville School where he was captain of both the football and baseball teams.

Deerfield Academy

A short list of the best-known rivalries among American boarding schools would include AndoverExeter, GrotonSt. Mark's, LawrencevilleHill, and, perhaps tops for fierce observance, Deerfield–Choate.

English–Latin rivalry

The rivalry is the oldest continuous high school football rivalry in the U.S, and fourth longest all time behind Phillips Academy versus Phillips Exeter Academy, Wellesley, Massachusetts versus Needham, Massachusetts, New London, Connecticut versus Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, and Lawrenceville School vs. Blair Academy.

J. Elliott Burch

A graduate of Lawrenceville School, Yale University and the University of Kentucky, Elliott Burch worked as a sports writer for The Racing Form before going to work for his father in 1955 at Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable.

Manhattan Country School

Boarding schools that MCS graduates have enrolled in are: The Lawrenceville School, Westtown School, Williston Northampton School, The Hotchkiss School, Phillips Academy and George School.

Roy Geronemus

Dr. Geronemus was educated at the The Lawrenceville School (1967-1971) where he was the school president and a three time prep All-American swimmer.

Tony Hulman

He was educated at St. Benedict's School at Terre Haute, Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and Worcester Academy in Massachusetts.


Paul Schmidtberger

Originally from Schooley's Mountain in Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey, Schmidtberger attended the Lawrenceville School and is a graduate of Yale College and Stanford Law School.


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