University of Findlay

Eddie Jordan, a 1961 graduate, earned 12 athletic letters at Findlay while participating in football, baseball, wrestling and track. Jordan was best known as a football player, starting all four years. He was named First Team All-Mid-Ohio on three occasions and Second Team All-Mid-Ohio once. As a halfback, Jordan was the leading rusher and scorer for the Oilers for three seasons while also playing defensive safety for two seasons and performing the kickoff duties. He was selected as the team MVP while a sophomore.

The versatile Jordan was a top-10 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) ground-gainer. As a baseball venter fielder and cater for Findlay. Jordan started all four years and earned First Team All-Mid-Ohio honors three times. During his freshman and sophomore years and during the same spring season as baseball, Jordan participated in track and was the team’s high-point man. He ran the 100 and 220-yard dashes, the 220-yard hurdles, the 880-yard relay and was the long jumper. Jordan even wrestled for the Oilers in 167 pounds during his freshman and sophomore years, adding a fourth sort to his collection of 12 varsity letters. Jordan, initially a case worker and a juvenile parole and probation officer, is a retired educator, administrator and coach, and lives in East Cleveland, Ohio with his wife Gwendolyn. They have two children, Deborah Clark and James E. Jordan, Jr., and four grandchildren.