[3] Clearing 3.58 meters on July 28, at the age of 22 he won a bronze medal in pole vault for the United States in the London 1908 Summer Olympics.

[4][5] After the 1908 Summer Olympics in July, he continued to compete in track events in Chicago in September, while a student at the University until he completed his studies.

Under Clare Jacob's direction, the Company began as a small family automotive manufacturing and supply business headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, fifteen miles North of Detroit.

[7] Well after Clare Jacobs's resignation, and with the help of its trustees in the mid to late 1960's the company would gradually recover from a negative net worth, ruined credit, and serious debt.

Clare Jacobs was not a target of the suits against the company made by two stockholders in 1959, though two former chairmen, Alexander Sandy Guterma and Hollywood motion picture magnate Hal Roach Jr.

[7][8] Serving for a long period as Vice-President and Treasurer, and as President in 1952, Clare S. Jacobs helped run the company until he resigned in March 1953 at the age of 67.

[11] Representing the Gross Pointe Yacht Club, he won a deep river race to Put-in-Bay in Western Lake Erie on his boat Revelry in September 1951.

[18] Continuing his racing avocation against a field of 200 competitors, on Saturday, July 11, 1964, Jacobs fought gale force winds to finish first in the Grosse Pointe Regatta's Class A Division.

With a large family when he died in February 1971, he left a wife, Myrtle, two sons, A. R. (Bill) and John, two daughters, Clair and Helen and a number of grand and great-grandchildren.