By high school, as the story goes, Landon made a conscious effort to be a bad student but became a champion javelin thrower.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/michael-landon-plaque_n_1184611.html
A shy loner who suffered from depression, Michael used athletics as an escape. At USC, however, his nonconformity got him into trouble. His track-and-field teammates took exception to his shaggy locks, and, according to Bill Kiley, a former publicist for Landon, "Some of them held him down while another cut off his hair." Seething, Landon threw out his arm while making a toss; the damage, says Kiley, eventually cost him his scholarship, and Landon "had to do odd jobs to work his way through school."
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115045,00.html
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