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A two-sport standout, he was a Coaches All-Ivy first-team offensive tackle in football in 1966, while also garnering Associated Press All-Ivy first-team and AP All-East second-team honors. A defenseman in lacrosse, he was co-captain of the 1967 team, which went 11-1 overall. In 1966, he helped the Big Red to its most successful lacrosse campaign since the start of intercollegiate play at Cornell in 1898, with a 12-0 overall record and the team won the Ivy League title with a 6-0 mark. He was the recipient of the Clarence F. Morse Lacrosse Athlete of the Year Award, given to the team player who combines physical attributes with scholastic achievement, in 1966. Vanneman was named the Cornell Daily Sun Athlete of the Year in 1967, and he was awarded the Eastern College Athletic Conference Merit Medal as Cornell's outstanding student-athlete of the year. The former Old Greenwich, Conn., native is a graduate of Greenwich High School, and currently makes his home in Washington, D.C.