Jake served as Fordham's trainer for three decades. He also trained America's Davis Cup tennis team and Charlie Paddock, the "World's Fastest Human". The legendary Paavo Nurmi would let no American hands touch him except those of Jake Weber.
 
Jake was the best athletic trainer in America for the better part of his 80 years of life. Although his formal education was limited, he had a keen native intelligence. There was never a Fordham gathering that didn't bring forth the chant, "We want Jake." He was truly a Fordham sports immortal.