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Originally Posted by h2oya311
Those are awesome Michael!! Thanks for sharing!!
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Glad to share. Here is part 2
Verne Booth - won a silver medal in the cross country team event at the 1924 Olympics. Attended Johns Hopkins. Served in the Signal Corps in WWI.
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Everett Bradley - won a silver medal in the pentathlon at the 1920 Olympics. He attended Kansas. Became wealthy in oil production and consulting.
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Charley Brookins - competed in the 400m hurdles at the 1924 games. He attended Iowa. He set several world records in the 220m low hurdles. He was biracial, but not revealed until the 2000's though I had deduced that from the photo. His father was a slave who became a reverend. I like the composition of this photo.
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Ken Churchill - competed in the javelin at the 1932 Olympics. He attended UCal Berkeley. Photo taken at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
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Tom Churchill - competed in the decathlon at the 1928 Olympics. Attended Oklahoma. He competed in five sports there. Big 8 boxing champ as a freshman. All American in Basketball and Football.
Played minor league baseball for the Yankees.
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Bill Cox - won a bronze medal in the 3000m team race on his 20th birthday at the 1924 Olympics. He was still attending Mercersburg Academy. Later went to Penn State. Ran a 4:18.6 mile in the mid 1920's.
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Ira Davenport - won a bronze medal in the 800m at the 1912 Olympics. He also played in the baseball demonstration game with Jim Thorpe. He attended the University of Chicago.
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Gayle Dull - won a silver medal in the 3 mile team event at the 1908 Olympics. He attended Michigan. Died in 1918 after an appendix operation.
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Harry Frieda - competed in the decathlon at the 1924 Olympics. Attended the University of Chicago. Long time high school coach in Chicago - Lake View and Calumet. Photo taken at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
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Charles Harlow - competed in javelin at the 1928 Olympics. He attended Stanford. Photo taken at the 1928 Olympic Trials at Harvard Stadium.
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John Paul Jones - competed in athletics at the 1912 Olympics. He also participated in the baseball demonstration with Jim Thorpe. On both winning teams. He attended Cornell. He was the first person to be recognized as the world record holder in the mile by the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) in 1913 with a time of 4:14.4. Though it was slower than the professional mark. One of two signed photos I have of him from that period.
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Leroy Jones - competed in athletics at the 1908 Olympics. He attended the University of Pennsylvania. He died at sea of a heart attack while on vacation in Bermuda.
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Mort Kaer - competed in pentathlon at the 1924 Olympics. He attended USC. He also played football there. Set a record for touchdowns in 1925 which was not broken until O.J. Simpson did it in 1968. Simpson also broke his career touchdown mark. Played one year for the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the NFL. Member of the College Football HOF. This is a 1923 real photo postcard.
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Bob Legendre - won a bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 1924 Olympics. He attended Georgetown. Also earned a PHD and DDS. He was an in store dentist in Washington, D.C. at his death.
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Tom Lieb - won a bronze medal in the discus at the 1924 Olympics. Set a world record two months after the games. He attended Notre Dame where he also played football for Knute Rockne, and with George Gipp. He was the defacto head coach for the 1929 National Championship team at Notre Dame. He was assistant coach and Rockne was laid up with a leg infection. I once owned a discus endorsed by him with his signature on it much like a baseball bat.
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Josiah McCracken - won a silver in shot put and a bronze in the hammer at the 1900 Olympics. He attended Penn where he was a football All American in 1899. He earned an M.D. and became a medical missionary in China for 50 years. Two photos of him at Penn.
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Roy Mercer - competed in athletics and the baseball demonstration at the 1912 Olympics. He set a high school record in the pole vault. Earned his M.D. at Penn and served on the staff at 2 hospitals in Philadelphia while coaching at and as athletic director at Swarthmore. He was a 3 time All American in football at Penn. Member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
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