Brutus Hamilton was a track and field athlete who grew up next to President Harry S. Truman’s family farm. In high school, and later at the University of Missouri, he excelled in all track and field events, finally winning a spot on the 1920 U.S. Olympic team. He won a silver medal in the decathlon… Read more »
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
To a generation of kids who came of age in the 1980s and early 1990s, she will be the incredible track and field superstar forever remembered standing atop the Olympic podium, both of her arms raised in the air while sporting a stars and stripes jacket and hoisting flowers. To kids of this generation, they… Read more »
Herschel Neil
Herschel Neil’s nod for his all-around excellence as an athlete came unfortunately 10 years after his death. In 1936, he earned All-America recognition when he set NCAA records in the triple jump. He also won the 100-yard dash in 1936 in both the Kansas and Drake Relays and later was a Drake Relays’ Hall of… Read more »
John Richardson
In the quaint southwest Missouri town of Miller, the story is legendary: Local teen began competing in track and field only as a high school sophomore, goes on to win four state track titles, got recruited by the best college track programs out there, was asked to pitch in front of a New York Yankees… Read more »