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Bob Mathias was born, the second of four children (including older brother Eugene, younger brother James, and younger sister Patricia), to Dr. Charles and Lillian Mathias. 1948: At age seventeen, graduated from Tulare high school after an illustrious high school athletic career in football and track and field. Wins National Decathlon ...
As a child of sharecroppers, in 1934 his family left Oklahoma due to the onset of the dust bowl and moved to the small San Joaquin Valley town of Tulare, California.There he became lifelong friends with classmate and teammate at Tulare Union High School and Olympic teammate, decathlon champion Bob Mathias.
Anton Phillips (born 31 October 1943) is a Jamaican-born British actor who found success appearing in British television.He remains best known for his role as Dr. Bob Mathias in the science fiction series Space: 1999.
The summer between his sophomore and junior years in high school (age 16), his coach Murl Dodson drove Johnson 24 miles (40 km) to Tulare and watched Bob Mathias compete in the 1952 U.S. Olympic decathlon trials. [7] Johnson told his coach, "I could have beaten most of those guys."
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Although just 18 years old, Campbell finished second to Bob Mathias in the decathlon. [6] Campbell set New Jersey state records in the high and low hurdles and in the high jump, and scored 140 points as fullback in football. He was inducted into the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1997. [4]
Bob Dylan's life is the subject of the new movie "A Complete Unknown." Here's what to know about the singer's real-life relationships and children. Bob Dylan has 6 children from his 2 ex-wives.
The meet was revived in 1991 as the Bob Mathias Fresno Relays and was held at Warmerdam Field at Fresno State. [3] By 2006 the meet moved again to Buchanan High School in Clovis, California. The revived West Coast Relays since then has been an annual high school-only track and field meet. [4]