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...from California was only 17, and almost unknown. But last week in Wembley Stadium, husky 6 ft. 2 in. Bob Mathias, in two days' grueling competition, outran, outthrew, and outjumped 34 competitors, to win the Olympic Games decathlon. In victory, at an age when most youngsters are still gangling and ill-coordinated, he had proved his right to be classed with such all-round athletes as Carlisle's Jim Thorpe and West Point's Glenn Davis...
Next day Bob agreed, thought he would retire from decathlon competition, the undefeated champion. That didn't mean he was through with athletics: it was in his blood. In his senior year of high school this year, he was captain and fullback of Tulare's championship football team, a basketball letterman, captain of the track team (California scholastic champion in the high & low hurdles). He hasn't decided where to go to college, but leans to Stanford...
Atwell, a native of Becon, New York, in winning the race, clipped almost a minute off his second place August Decathlon time, as did most of the Crimson team...
When Jaako Mikkola's Crimson harries open the 1944 cross country season tomorrow against Worcester Tech, it will be the first time since last month's Decathlon meet that the team will run together as a complete unit...
Winding up the 1944 Guadalcanal Decathlon will be the 3.7 mile University Handicap Course cross country race to be run this afternoon at 5:15 o'clock...