Below are several people not yet mentioned on this thread. I've omitted anyone who did not achieve some degree of fame/greatness outside of sports (for instance, most inductees in the football halls of fame have t&f in their background.) And where is Ed Grant, who has a good collection of these names.
But first, a trivia question (answer at bottom): The Penn Relays (self-serving reference no. 1) has at least one high school that has competed which is named for a Penn Relays competitor. Name the athlete (which means you've pretty well named the HS, clues provided within the lists below). Politics/Civil Rights: Tom Bradley (440, Los Angeles Poly HS '36) Michael Dukakis (CC, Swarthmore College '56--self-serving reference no. 2) Roosevelt Grier (SP, Penn State '55) Jacob Javits (HJ, Stuyvesant HS, NYC '29) Lord Philip John Noel-Baker, '59 Nobel Peace Prize (Haverford College '12, 1920 OG silver 1500) see trivia question Jackie Robinson Bayard Rustin (440y, West Chester Henderson/PA HS early '20s) Military: George Patton (LJ, West Point) Communications: Walter Annenberg (PV, Peddie School '27) Otis Chandler (SP, Stanford '50) Business/Inventions: Buckminster Fuller (CC, Harvard) A.C. Gilbert (PV, Yale '12) Entertainment: Herman Brix (SP, Washington '28; aka Bruce Bennett, played movie Tarzan--Don Bragg did not) Roscoe Lee Brown (800, Lincoln Univ.) Chuck Connors John Raitt (Fullerton '35) see trivia question Medicine: Sir Arthur Porritt (100, New Zealand) Historical Figures: Henry VIII (English HT champion) William Penn (LJ) George Washington (LJ) TRIVIA ANSWER (would qualify in both Politics/Civil Rights and Entertainment, . . . last name fits between Raitt and Robinson, . . . PAU L ROBESON Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
