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Buck Hartley
Not bad for a kid in high school who ran for president of the student council promising "toilet paper" in all toilets..... this was well before George Carlin began talking potty jokes
I know of at least one lacrosse game Jerry missed. It occurred in November 1965. My wedding and where 50 years later we celebrated agai..Still with a good sense of humor.
In case you missed it here is the recognition :
Jerry Pfeifer • Class of 1965
Lacrosse, Football, Coach
In an era when two-sport athletes were common, Jerry Pfeifer enjoyed one of the great careers in school history. An accomplished attackman on the men’s lacrosse team and the quarterback and safety for the Blue Jay football team, Pfeifer is generally considered one of the top athletes to have played both sports at Johns Hopkins.
At a time when freshmen were not eligible for varsity athletics, Pfeifer earned All-America honors three time in lacrosse with selections to the second team as a sophomore and junior and the first team as a senior. He led the team in goals and points in each of his three seasons and in assists as a sophomore and senior. He totaled 17 goals and 10 assists as a sophomore, 20 goals and 12 assists as a junior and 17 goals and 24 assists as a senior. For his career, he averaged 3.23 points per game and he remains one of just five Johns Hopkins players since 1955 to lead the team in goals and points in three straight years.
On the football field, Pfeifer graduated as Johns Hopkins career leader in passing yards (1,915), touchdown passes (15), completions (153) and attempts (345) while adding 295 rushing yards. He missed most of one season with an injury and at various times during his career he also handled the punting and place-kicking duties as well.
Pfeifer later joined the Johns Hopkins athletic staff as the head football coach and assistant lacrosse coach. He helped the lacrosse team to a 103-16 record from 1981-89 with NCAA Championships in 1984, 1985 and 1987 and runner-up finishes in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1989. As the head football coach he guided the Blue Jays to a school-record-tying seven wins in 1981; that mark stood as the record for wins in a season until 2002.
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