Word: decathloner
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French in Paris. Today, athletics are still important at Kiski (one recent graduate: Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias), but not all-important. Kiski wants to see its students on the playing field in the afternoon but it insists they spend their evenings in "cultural studies," e.g., practicing the piano, rehearsing with the orchestra, reading...
Until young Bob Mathias (rhymes with defy us) came along, the folks in Tulare, Calif, (pop. 12,000) never had much to shout about.* When Bob became Olympic decathlon champ at 17, they let off a roar heard all over the county, gave him a noisy welcome when he came home from London. Last week, at a cost of $40,000, Tulare played host to the 1949 A.A.U. decathlon meet just so townspeople could watch Bob defend his title...
...Mathias, Olympic decathlon champion and the outstanding amateur athlete in the United States, visited Harvard yesterday during his vacation from Kiski Prep, Saltsburg...
...Mathias, who outran, out-jumped, and out-threw 34 of the world's best last summer to become the youngest (17) Olympic decathlon champion in history, became the youngest to win the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award as 1948's amateur of the year. He also ran a close second to baseball's highly professional Lou Boudreau in the poll for the year's No. 1 male athlete...
...Citizens of Tulare, Calif, lined the streets for nine miles to welcome 17-year-old Bob Mathias, home from his decathlon victory in the Olympic Games. After hours of cheers, band music, speeches and photographs, Bob decided he'd had enough. He drank a quart of milk, locked himself in his room, played phonograph records and waited for the crowds to go away...