Cornell University Athletics

Before becoming an assistant track coach at Cornell in 1948, Montgomery, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, who served on a submarine in World War I was an eminently successful high school coach for 23 years in Buffalo, N.Y. In 1951, his second season as head coach of the Big Red, Cornell won the outdoor IC4A championship and was runner-up to Southern California in the NCAA meet. In Heptagonal (Ivy League and Army and Navy) competition Cornell swept the indoor and outdoor track titles in 1955 and 1958, in addition to winning outdoors in ’51 and tying with Columbia indoors in ’53, and won the cross country Heps title six times. His dual and triangular meet record at Cornell was 59-31-2. The indoor mark was 22-24-1. The outdoor teams, with 12 undefeated seasons, had a 37-7-1 record. Among the outstanding performers he developed were five Olympians. In 1963 he was head coach of the United States team at the Pan-American Games in Brazil. Following his retirement in 1965, he returned to Buffalo and later moved to Garden Grove, Calif.