110 y 9.6 Ralph Montague 04/22/32 Nevada Ollie Matson 04/19/52 UC Invite 100 m 10.7 Ralph Montague 06/04/32 Pac Association.............1932???? 220 y 20.6 Ralph Montague 06/04/32 Pac Association 200 m 20.5 Ollie Matson 05/01/52 Pac Association 440 y 46.9 Ollie Matson 05/16/52 Coliseum Relays 400 m 46.5 Ollie Matson 06/14/52
Ollie Matson a 1952 Olympic 400m bronze, an NFL Hall of Fame running back.
110 y 9.6 Ralph Montague 04/22/32 Nevada Ollie Matson 04/19/52 UC Invite 100 m 10.7 Ralph Montague 06/04/32 Pac Association.............1932???? 220 y 20.6 Ralph Montague 06/04/32 Pac Association 200 m 20.5 Ollie Matson 05/01/52 Pac Association 440 y 46.9 Ollie Matson 05/16/52 Coliseum Relays 400 m 46.5 Ollie Matson 06/14/52
Ollie Matson a 1952 Olympic 400m bronze, an NFL Hall of Fame running back.
I believe Matson is the only athlete with an Olympic medal in both the Pro and College Football Hall of Fame.
110 y 9.6 Ralph Montague 04/22/32 Nevada Ollie Matson 04/19/52 UC Invite 100 m 10.7 Ralph Montague 06/04/32 Pac Association.............1932???? 220 y 20.6 Ralph Montague 06/04/32 Pac Association 200 m 20.5 Ollie Matson 05/01/52 Pac Association 440 y 46.9 Ollie Matson 05/16/52 Coliseum Relays 400 m 46.5 Ollie Matson 06/14/52
Ollie Matson a 1952 Olympic 400m bronze, an NFL Hall of Fame running back.
I believe Matson is the only athlete with an Olympic medal in both the Pro and College Football Hall of Fame.
I believe Matson is the only athlete with an Olympic medal in both the Pro and College Football Hall of Fame.
Have you ever heard of Jim Thorpe??
OP might have technically been right since Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals were stripped (since restored) due to him not being an amateur, but that was a technicality and was stupid. Jim Thorpe is also the only athlete ever to have been a professional in the top level of the 3 major American sports (football, basketball, baseball). Greatest athlete of all time.
OP might have technically been right since Jim Thorpe’s Olympic medals were stripped (since restored) due to him not being an amateur, but that was a technicality and was stupid. Jim Thorpe is also the only athlete ever to have been a professional in the top level of the 3 major American sports (football, basketball, baseball). Greatest athlete of all time.
What if Thorpe had competed vs African American athletes?
Was Johnny Mathis a high jumper? Standing just 5 feet 7, Mathis was one of the best high jumpers in the state in the 1950s. He set local high school records at Washington High, and as a San Francisco State University student leaped 6 feet 5½ inches at a 1955 conference meet in Reno, beating his 7-foot-tall rival — future NBA legend Bill Russell.
You can see he’s landing in sawdust. Soon after that came foam rubber discards wrapped in netting. He’s doing two legged version of western roll style almost a straight jump over. If guys of that era did Fosbury’s style the record would be much higher. Remember steel and bamboo pole vault poles.?
