Football, Wrestling, Baseball

Eisenhower High School

Class of 1979

Inducted 1/28/2022

The true definition of an all-around athlete, Ruwe was the first athlete to be named all-city in three sports in the same season, earning the honor in football, wrestling and baseball as a senior in the 1978-79 season.
A dominating lineman for the Panthers’ football team, Ruwe went on to capture the conference title in wrestling as a senior and was named the team’s MVP, as he was in baseball as well, in which he led his team in hitting with a .417 average.
Ruwe, though, was also one of the school’s valedictorians, and continued both his academic and athletic careers in the Ivy League at Yale.
Ruwe was both a football player and wrestler at Yale. In football, he was a three-year starter and became a captain his senior year. He was named first-team all-conference at guard and got feelers from both the USFL and NFL.
After college, Ruwe pursued medicine and became an orthopedic surgeon, serving for a time as Yale’s team doctor. He received Yale’s George H.W. Bush Lifetime of Leadership Award at Yale’s annual Blue Leadership Ball, which is given to former Yale athletes for their examples of leadership after graduation.