Cornell University Athletics

One of the most versatile track athletes ever at Cornell, he won the high jump at the Olympic Games in 1912, and captured the AAU high jump title in 1913, all before entering the University. The former Cornell record holder in the high jump, long jump and shot put, he placed second in the IC4A high jump in 1915, and then went on to win the national AAU decathlon championship that same year. In 1918 he won the AAU shot put title. He won the decathlon at the 1915 World's Fair in San Francisco, when all 10 events were run off in one day. At the Inter-Allied Games in Paris in 1919, he scored more points than any other athlete., causing General Pershing to call him [quote]the Army's greatest athlete,[quote] after he won 14 points n that meet. Throughout his career, he won 63 events in 55 championship meets. He resided in Orange, Calif., at the time of his death in 1963.