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BY KYLE CHARTERS
KCharters@GoldandBlack.com
M
onopoly was banned.
When the board game's
money started to go missing — the
Replogle brothers hoarded it, hid it,
then tried to use it to their advantage
later — fights broke out. And when
dealing with four brothers who'd go
on to play Big Ten football, those skir-
mishes weren't to be taken lightly.
"It was banned for at least a year,"
dad Tom Replogle said. "It just got too
competitive and then too physical."
Jake Replogle, a junior defensive
tackle at Purdue and the youngest of
the brothers, remembers those bat-
tles; it was Monopoly, or video games,
or basketball, or backyard football, or
living room football, the last of which
led to one too many drywall repairs for
Tom.
It, then, was also deemed unaccept-
able.
"There was a lot of competitive
stuff like that," said Jake, a Center-
ville, Ohio native. "Monopoly was
definitely one of them. A lot of times
when someone would lose, they
Replogle's upbringing shapes performance
Tom Campbell
Jake Replogle's play was shaped by his
upbringing. He learned to push back
against his three older brothers.
Gaining
An Edge
